Strictly average movie

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This is by far the best cartoon fox ever put out. In fact The Tick is possible the very best cartoon about super heroes ever made. The cartoon makes absolutely no sense but in a good way. The characters are all funny and engaging in there own way. Be it the Tick with his always optimistic attitude, or the Sewer Urchin's Rain man speech. Even the villains got in the zany act. For instance my very favorite villain is the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight. This villain periodically talks to himself and says things that make no sense. Every episode doesn't disappoint. The first two seasons are on DVD right now. Go pick them up space ponies.

We have Superman, Batman, Spider-man, X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Fantatstic Four, Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk on the famous television animated series, and now we have The Tick. This is definitely one of the funniest shows around, back when cartoons actually had quality to them. Although I doubt I saw this show on Fox Kids (now called Fox Box and 4KidsTV, all because of the hostile takeover of 4KidsEntertaiment, unfortunately), I have seen three episodes- Heroes (a parody of the show Cops), The Tick vs. Dinosaur Neil, The Tick vs. Mr. Mental- on Jetix, which has luckily re-aired it along with Spider-Man, X-Men, and recently Fantastic Four.The idea of each episode is simple by fruitful. The Tick, the "blue-bug" human warrior goes out on patrol to subdue evildoers (and we know that The Tick wouldn't be evil, cause eating kittens is WRONG, yeah!). He would also have his sidekick Arthur the Moth, who could actually fly (or more likely glide) while Tick would crash through the top of buildings to find where evil has it's insidious location. There would be The Deadly Bulb (aka Pig-Leg), Dinosaur Neil (who's somewhat like Dr. Curt "Lizard" Conners, if you know what I mean), Mr. Mental (known for specialized mind control), Bread Master, Chairface Chippendale, an impostor Tick, Mole-Men, 'El Seed, even Arthur's bank account! This show has a lot of spoofs of famous comic characters like Batman, X-Men, S.H.I.E.L.D., etc. In addition to Tick and Arthur, there's also American Maid (Wonder Woman), Die Flatermeus (Batman), Sea Urchin, and many others to fight evil. The voices are just about watermark. It's strange that Townsend Coleman, the voice of Michelangelo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is the voice of Tick, as he sounds much more like Beau Weaver or Neil Ross. Rob Paulsen, voice of Raphael, does the second voice of Arthur (who was originally voiced by Mickey Dolenz), and also others like Crusading Chameleon, and Cam Clarke, who does Leonardo, performs Die Flatermeus and sound very much the same. That's just about it except for Barry Gordon who plays Donatello. The guest voices look promising, like Mark Hamill, Dan Castelleneta, Maurice LaMaurche, Tony Jay, and Jim Cummings.All in all, this is definitely worth watching if you can find it on Jetix or Toon Disney. And remember- Spoon!

Justice comes in many forms, and in The Tick it comes in at about 400 pounds in blue tights and wrapped in mixed metaphors.The Tick is that rare beast -- a cartoon the adults will enjoy as much as the kids. In the tradition of Bullwinkle and the Alf cartoons, The Tick is sophisticated if silly, intellectual if infantile, a one-liner of truth in the hyperinflated monologue of network television. It's... oh, never mind. Watch it and see.

I first saw The Tick while on vacation in Massachusetts 4 years ago. I absolutely loved it! I've never laughed so hard at a cartoon. Never thought I'd be able to see it again, but recently Teletoon here in Canada picked it up for their weekly line-up. Woohooo!