Jetsons: The Movie

Jetsons: The Movie is like a long episode of the show - but with music. It's a fun enough ride, but it never takes on the feel of an actual movie. With its diverse set of characters and intergalactic creatures, it's an interesting enough story. Judged solely as a movie, though, it comes up short (and not only in terms of its running time of 82 minutes, 7 of which are the end credits). The film just never really managed to distinguish itself from old episodes of the show, making you wonder why they bothered to make a movie in the first place.

After all these years, George Jetson's button-pushing prowess has finally been recognized. Mr. Spaceley makes George a vice president and ships him off to run an orbiting sprocket production facility. Mr. Spaceley really wants this facility up and running because cheap production costs mean higher profits, and the automated plant requires only two employees - a robot to keep everything up and working, and a vice president to push the start button every morning. What George doesn't know is that four vice presidents have already come and gone, as the plant has continually run into major problems. The kids aren't too wild about moving (Elroy has his basketball tournament coming up and Judy has fallen in love with a rock star), but the Jetsons soon settle in among their multi-species neighbors on the asteroid. As they learn to adjust and make new friends, George finds his dream job cursed with major glitches. Someone or something is sabotaging the machinery, and it's up to George to figure out what is really going on.

I don't expect to see a lot of musical numbers when I watch The Jetsons, but this movie has more than its fair share of just that very thing, including what can only be called an abstract music video at one point. I think a lot of viewers will not embrace the music very much at all. There are actually two rap songs in here, and I just have to say there's no reason in the world George Jetson needs to start rapping about anything. You also have three songs by Tiffany - now, I've always been a Tiffany fan, but I daresay that puts me in a definite minority. Tiffany not only sings, though; she also serves as the voice of young Judy Jetson. She's not half bad, but of course most of her dialogue consists mainly of futuristic teen slang.

Basically, I'm going right down the middle on this one and labeling the movie perfectly average. Kids will enjoy it, but I fear many a parent over the ensuing years has cringed every time one of their brood popped this thing back into the VCR for another viewing.

With everyone putting down The Jetsons and comparing them to the Flintstones with the recently release season box sets I wanted to say that it good to have some decent enjoyable animation out there compared to the garbage that get passed off for entertaiment today. This movie had such great songs I had to buy the soundtrack to go with it and the story line and new characters brought new life to an old series. Well worth addting to anyone home video collection.

I saw the Jetsons Movie in a movie theater and though it had it's moments and was kind of a cute animated movie it just isn't as good as the old Jetsons cartoons which is just more enjoyable. FYI: 80's teen pop singer Tiffany provided the voice for Judy Jetson and she was ok but not as good as the girl who did the original voice for Judy.