(Adult Swim/Madman)

Another Adult Swim cartoon by stoners, for stoners

Frisky Dingo’s characters are drawn in a well-defined clear-line style that makes most of them look somewhat realistic, at least until they move and you see that the animation budget was put together from change found at the back of the couch. The lip-syncing is basic, people glide instead of walking and do the South Park shuffle with their limbs. That doesn’t matter though, because as long as the jokes work, who cares how good it looks? Frisky Dingo is about the rivalry between an obnoxious superhero who calls himself Awesome-X and an easily frustrated supervillain named Killface. The incompetent sidekicks of the incompetent protagonists provide most of the funny. Killface treats his lackeys as disposable minions, shooting them and then using their corpses as puppets whenever he gets mad (often), while Awesome-X’s heavily armoured Xtacles are a gung-ho gang of testosterone-poisoned lunkheads and lummoxes so desperate to repress their feminine sides that at inappropriate moments they burst out and just have to take a trip to Pottery Barn. It’s not on the same glorious level as Harvey Birdman or Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but it’s far better than Space Ghost Coast To Coast. It’ll do for something to watch while you work your way through an entire super supreme and then wonder what you’re doing with your life. There are no special features to help get you through the garlic bread, however.

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JODY MACGREGOR

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