Love + Death Robots

One of the worst animated anthologies ever created.

Seeing as the only other anthologies I know are the Mickey Christmas ones, I say that's about right.

We will never witness such greatness again in our lifetimes

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It was awful. reddit humor le evil cats and le toy story but gadgets. mr beast episode was ok rest is garbage.

do I see thinly-veiled for the anti-nazi episode?

fact,the most Reddit show ever made,aside from R&M of course

What else did you expect from a show that has the director of Kung Fu Panda 2/3?

I liked the one with the zombie apocalypse but in miniature form and the one with the giant crab.
That's about it.

Robert Valley's art style is pretty good but his writing is horrendous.

Most of thw directora keep obsessing over the sex and death part, i really wouldn't mind more shorts like Zima Blue and Breaking the Ice and even that one with the mech farmers. It's like every animator went "Oh muh gosh i can animate tits and dick now!" And used those muh photorealistic cgi! Artsyles.
i loved Bad travelling though, i thought it had a nice little thriller story and i actually liked the ugly artstyle. Remined me of Dishonored

Why did this even pretend to be an anthology? Regardless of what you think of the quality of each short, it seems like about half of them were promoted with "involved robots" or general sci-fi themes but then there's shit like the homoerotic military werewolves and the one that's just an AI filter over some hipster and an Asian girl stuck in loop of accidentally killing each other. Which just seem like totally unrelated ideas.

The prompt apparently wasn't the inclusion of love, death and robots at once. You could just pick one. But like you said that's so insanely broad you could essentially fit 90% of fiction within these parameters.

For every 2-3 shitty edgelord tits and ass short there's a gem of an original or adapted work like Zima Blue or Bad Travelling or Beyond Aquila Rift or Swarm, and that makes the whole exercise worth it. People will always make shit, but if there's a chance for some good to be made along the way, it's a net positive.

I remember watching the first season and the short with the old man in the junkyard with the monster came up, and for whatever reason in my head I was like, "+robots is in the name of the series, I bet that old guy is going to build a junk robot to fight off the junk monster and that's how he's going to justify himself to the bank."

And then the old man tamed the monster and used it to murder the banker. I was incredibly disappointed.

It would be cool if every single short was a combination of 2 of the 3 title words, but never all 3. Junkyard ep? Love and death, no robots. Psychic spider? Love and robots, no death. The apocalypse robot trio? Death and robots, no love.

Obviously this is silly and doesn't fit all unless "love" means "nudity" and "robots" means "all sci-fi", but I still think it'd be cool if it really worked like that

Still astounded they had to opportunity to adapt a Harlan Ellison story and somehow still went with one from when he was just starting his writing career to the point it is barely recognizable as his.

Any episode that is on the same level as Witness or Bad traveling?
If not, then I'm not going to bother.

Witness is one of the trashiest ones, you'll probably love the whole thing.

Zima Blue and Breaking the Ice

If you want to see more of that check out Robert Valleys work. He made those and also made Motorcity, Tron Uprising, the Hollow, Pearl Cider and Cigarettes, Metamorphosis for Apex Legends, Agent Elvis
He has a very distinct style, and I loved since I watched Tron Uprising as a kid

"How Zeke Got Religion" is great, Titmouse animation is on point as usual, great designs and setup.
"400 Boys" is good, Robert Valley doing his thing, animation's solid, suitably weird setting with some nice action and visuals.
"Spider Rose" is good, it's another Bruce Stirling adaptation like Swarm, so how much you like the actual story depends on how you like his writing. The usual good animation from Blur, solid designs for the aliens and ships.
The Other Large Thing was okay, sensible chuckle-worthy, same with For He Can Creep
Close Encounters of the Mini Kind was visually interesting.
The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur was kinda mid. It's well-animated, but it's a bit clusterfucky and pretentious.

The rest were largely forgettable. "Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners" was just sort of dumb. "Golgotha" is a humorous premise that doesn't really do enough with its idea. And "Can’t Stop" was just embarrassing.

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"Can’t Stop" was just embarrassing

This. It's literally just a RHCP music video. That shit had no fucking business being in a sci-fi/fantasy/horror anthology.

why did this pretend to be an anthology? It was just an anthology

yeah, anon?

Enjoyed 4-5/10

I'd probably end it here and try an anthology series with a different theme. Some of the shorts are feeling too repetitive to past stories.

Most of thw directora keep obsessing over the sex

Unfortunately, when they focus on sex it's usually the ugly cartoonish shorts than anything actually sexy. Due to the complaints of some of the material in the first season.

The near nudity kind of made Tyrannosaur more enjoyable. Wish there was more fist fights in it.
They should've just kept Mr. Beast's likeness without the voice, he needs some more voice training before VA work.

Wasn’t this originally conceived as a Heavy Metal reboot?

Genuinely what was the point of "can't stop"? After watching the whole season it just feels so weirdly out of place for no particularly good reason. What compels fincher to direct a RHCP music video in 2025? At first I thought it would showcase some new impressive puppet animation tech, but I didn't see the puppets do anything particularly mind-blowing.

If they wanted to do RHCP they should have used Californication or Otherside. They could have goten a lot more creative with the setting.

At least it gave us best girl.

I wanna fug the orange robot!!!!

Yeah, nobody wanted to give adult animation a chance in theaters so they were just struggling to get it going for 10 years until the success of Deadpool, but by then they both lost the license and also decided Netflix would be a better fit for them anyway.

Fun show. Too bad crybabies on here and Twitterfags on Letterboxed take it too seriously.

It’s perfectly fine. It’s an anthology so of course the quality isn’t going to be consistent throughout. Some episodes are fine, some are bangers, and some are just duds. I don’t think there are enough duds that the overall experience is bad.

huh til there was a 4th season I never got around to watching

the videogamy one on amazon prime is worse, all keep repeating the theme of dying many times, it gets boring

If this Anthology has taught me one thing it's that visual artists can't be trusted to write a story or pick a good story to animate.

huh til there was a 4th season I never got around to watching

It literally premiered today

This. I get the impression a lot of people have never watched an anthology movie or series before. Quality is all over the place, there's gonna be good stuff, bad stuff, stuff that's out of place, etc. The whole point of anthologies is for a lot of talent to throw a bunch of stuff out there and see what lands.

Wtf he did The Hollow? I never noticed

the best shorts are the ones adapting literary works, like the drowned giant. animators don't make great writers.

Huh, I was going to argue because I thought the point was they're all based on short stories, but on further investigation, some aren't based at all, and comparing the likes of The Witness and Jibaro you can kind of see the clear lack of cohesive worldbuilding.
Does Three Robots 2 count for that?
Only the first one was directly based on a short story, but they did get that story's author on board to write the sequel.