Boring

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

As noted, the animation style is a throwback to the 1960's, yet the episodes are perfectly modern, filthy and funny, especially Pigeon. The third season episodes were often weak, in my opinion, because they were rushed - how are you supposed create a whole story in about 10 minutes? Yes. I know the geniuses at Warner Bros/Looney Tunes could do that, but I bet they had far larger support staffs to help them, and some of their work really pushed the envelope by the standards of their day (and I think some of them were on drugs half the time). The last episode of the third season, "The Farmer's Daughter", had me laughing as hard as early episodes of South Park, and it easily bears re-watching, in fact I think some of the jokes are so subtle that you have to listen a few times to catch them. I hope they can write more 30-minute episodes next season and are given the money and other resources to do that. And don't even get me started on Deezy!

I have always been a fan of adult swim and this show is one of my favorites. It has its fair share of gags but also has its witty moments. The writers purposefully implement hard lines for Mike to read and he constantly screws them up in humorous ways such as when he tries to say "Chupacabra". The voice acting is great and the Mike Tyson jokes never get old. I'm excited to see how the show develops. The gay ghost in the show seems to be the voice of reason for Mike, trying to help him think out situations and control his emotions. Pigeon is an alcoholic asshole who does his own thing, and Mike's Asian American daughter Yung Hee is a very intelligent young girl constantly having to put up with Mike and his antics. To keep it brief, Mike Tyson Mysteries is not the average ridiculous Adult Swim cartoon and I see it as a great add on to the networks line up.

To say I went into Mike Tyson Mysteries looking for quality entertainment and laughs would be completely overstating it. Yes, I recognized immediately that this cartoon looked to be in the same vein as WB's earlier "Space Ghost" and"Harvey Birdman" while existing within a satire of Scooby Doo. I didn't even bother to read the synopsis; I just pressed Play on the Netflix button. And from there, I proceeded to laugh, out loud and without breath, for almost 10 minutes straight. Mike Tyson Mysteries knows exactly what it is and what it wants to be. Personally I think it's rare when you have a vision in mind and then you actually see it evolve from conception to completion with it being exactly as you had intended. I suspect that the creators of MTM might have surpassed even their expectations. MTM is absurd, irreverent, ridiculous and hilarious. It's everything I wanted it to be and it's now shot to the top of my list as one of the funniest cartoons I've ever seen in my 48 years on the planet. I'm not going to discuss the animation, plots or voice acting or even bother to tell you who's in it, besides Mike Tyson. Sometimes you have to just press Play for yourself.

Voice-over work is harder than some might realize and I had my doubts about Mike Tyson's ability to carry this off, but Tyson's work here is beyond reproach. Hopefully the plot will become more cohesive and the supporting characters' backstories will be developed; I think it has potential if given enough time but so far it's not a hit in my book and my 7 out of 10 assessment is being generous. I will revisit this if my opinion changes.While Norm MacDonald is a pro at this, his character has so far not developed into anything special. No worries because this is only at the third episode, but the writers need to get on the stick- people are not going to keep coming back unless there's a better return on their time IMHO.