Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Saturday Morning's Forgotten Heroes: Totally Spies! (2001)

What if the iconic 70's series, Charlie's Angels, was set in high school? That is essentially the premise behind the French-produced, anime-influenced Totally Spies!, which first reached American audiences on ABC Family in 2001, and then shifted over to Cartoon Network, and finally, to Kabillion (check local listings).

Clover, Samantha, & Alex are three high school students based in Beverly Hills who are also secret agents. The series is clearly a satire on spy shows and movies in general, with a high school bent. The success of this show might be what prompted CN to commission the 2003 Teen Titans series to be done in an Americanized anime style that was almost totally (pun intended) similar to this show. While the Spies have their fans, the format was replicated and truncated by Disney with a singular high school super sleuth. Kim Possible, and we all know who'd win a fan poll between the two shows, don't we?

Anyway, here's part 1 of "The Fugitives", in which the girls have been secretly cloned, and their copies are committing bank robberies.......



Marathon, the show's producer, reports that a 6th season is on order for next year. Like, how much further can they go? Well, don't ya think it's all about proving to be better than Kim Possible? Highly unlikely.

Rating: B-.

2 comments:

Scoobyfan1 said...

I've watched Totally Spies quite a bit, and it was a good show i'll admit it.

I don't know if it got overshadowed by Kim Possible or anything like that, but it seems like KP got more attention and fans then Totally Spies, but maybe it's just me.

hobbyfan said...

Given that TP wasn't exactly blessed with sharp writing, you ain't alone.....