The Cuphead Show- ✦ ❲Authentic❳

★★★½ (Great for ages 7–107, if you enjoy old-school cartoon nonsense)

The game’s painstaking hand-drawn frames (inspired by Fleischer Studios and Ub Iwerks) are impossible to replicate on a TV budget. So the show opts for spirit over fidelity. The limbs still bend like wet noodles, the backgrounds pop with vintage grain, and characters frequently freeze in exaggerated poses. It’s not as fluid as the game, but it’s alive . The animators understand the vocabulary of old cartoons: wavy lines for panic, stars for a KO, and that wonderful habit of characters folding into accordions when squashed. The Cuphead Show-

Surprisingly: by not taking itself seriously at all. ★★★½ (Great for ages 7–107, if you enjoy

A bowl of cereal, no expectations, and the willingness to say “Why did that just happen?” out loud. It’s not as fluid as the game, but it’s alive