Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Anoushka Slater
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Cassandra
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
brucetwo
The visual style of this cartoon is a COMPLETE rip-off of 1960s-1980s underground comic artist KIM DEITCH. Is he credited anywhere? Look at his artwork and his plots and you'll see what I mean. Many of the same characters as this show are in his work--or pretty similar ones.Check out this YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfqCgf8867c You'll see what I mean.Deitch is/was a contemporary of R. Crumb, Zap Comics and all the SanFrancisco-engendered underground comic book artists of that era, though his work seemed to have more an east-coast NYC lower-east-side of Manhattan subject or vibe a lot of the time. I could not find any allusion to Deitch on this "U-As" IMDb entry, and when I watched the show--on Comedy Central I think--the credits went by too fast to tell.By the way Deitch was affiliated with animation artist Sally Cruikshank at one time.
Kick-arse
I'm an avid horror fan. I always have been. But I've also liked Comedy, too. And it seems sort of tough to blend the two together and get a satisfying aftermath. Ugly Americans does just that. Treating life casually as New York is now inhabited by every monster imaginable, the misadventures our two main characters find themselves in are often very humorous! However.. I do have to admit that, as good as this concept sounds on paper, for my taste, it didn't adapt itself properly. The first season was hard to watch, the animation, if that's what we want to call it, visually insulted the viewers. It looked like nothing more than simply drawn angles and mouths moving.I wanted so bad to love this show, but I was far than impressed when I first saw how the creators chose to execute it. Though, with it's new season starting, the colors, animation, and story lines look much more interesting. I'll give it a try this season to see if it entertains me (hopefully more) than it's first.
brewsnbytes
Being a New Yorker by birth and a hilariously twisted bastard by nature, I see a bit of myself in all these characters. It'd be a shame if Comedy Central passed on this one before giving it a chance to expand its viewer-ship. This ain't no dry-ass Demetri or Sarah Silverman. Come on now folks! Where else can you find a government bureaucracy run by a demon and staffed by a milquetoast human, a drunken wizard, a smoking-hot, horned demoness and other monstrous, archetypal miscreants. This program ranks up there with South Park and Boondocks with its originality and bizarre and stitch-busting dark humor. It's not for everyone, especially if you're too easily offended by religious/satanic references. For the rest of us grown-ups, there's Ugly Americans.
william dawtry (russian_kettle)
I stayed up one late night and saw this come on, at first I was really, really confused, 10 minutes later I forgot about how confused I was and now i cant stop watching it.Its so smart, and different from all the other cartoons (Family guy, The Simpsons ). Its not doing what most cartoons are doing now by following Family guys Random Jokes system. Which are funny just think people are getting a bit bored. This show you have to think, which is nice.I am not very happy that its only has 7 episodes in one season and that i have read that its not doing very well in American which probably means that there wont be season 2. Being English, with our superior sense of humour (big head) I find this show very funny, Give it ago watch 2 or 3 episodes before you make your verdict. Or watch episode 6 which takes the absolute p*** out of twilight. The best episode so far. Thanks For Reading Peace
