Turma da Mônica em: Quadro a Quadro

Turma da Mônica em: Quadro a Quadro is a Brazilian direct-to-video episode compilation of Turma da Mônica from 1996, produced by the Estúdios Mauricio de Sousa. The film was based on the comic series mh:besttvshows:Turma da Mônica (Mônica's Gang), and distributed by the Brazilian toy company Estrela.

Why It's Not Frame By Frame

 * 1) The animation of these episodes is very limited, even by the 90s standards, with the characters having little or no animation, with very hard movements, looking either like something from a 60's cartoon or an old N64 video game cutscene, Branca de Fome e os Sete Anões is an infamous example.
 * 2) The episode Tá Morto... Ou Não Tá? has the worst animation in the whole series because, not only because is dull and ugly, but in the end (after Cascão (Smudge) enter the house), the animation is unfinished.
 * 3) * Speaking of the same episode, when Cascão (Smudge) starts shooting at objects, the animation changes to a low resolution CGI with Cascão (Smudge) shooting at objects in first person.
 * 4) The idea of putting 2D characters on a 3D background, while a unique idea, is handled very poorly here. Speaking of which, the 3D backgrounds are cheap and poorly rendered, and as expected, they didn't age well.
 * 5) The writing of these episodes is very weak, like the episode Algo Verde, Mole e Pegajoso for example, which turns about Mônica having sat on something disgusting and she doesn't have the courage to get up to see what it is.
 * 6) The episode Tá Morto... Ou Não Tá? has a misleading title, because it says it's a story of Cebolinha (Jimmy Five), but it focuses more on Cascão (Smudge) instead.
 * 7) The idea of transitions taking the form of a comic book, despite being a decent idea, are badly done here.
 * 8) The episode Branca de Fome e os Sete Anões is a bad way to make a parody of Snow White.
 * 9) In this episode, it had a creepy scene of Magali (Maggy) spinning her head referencing "The Exorcist" movie, this scene is so much scary for a kids movie.
 * 10) Still speaking about the animation, lip synchrony often doesn't fit with what the characters are talking about.
 * 11) These episodes were so bad that they were never released again for other media, not even for the official Mônica's Gang YouTube channel and neither in the DVDs released by Paramount Home Entertainment (save for a few clips were posted in the old Mônica's Gang website in the 2000s).

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) "Game Ao Vivo" was an okay episode, and it's the least bad episode in this list.
 * 2) At least the characters were not flanderized.
 * 3) The fact of the animation of the episode Tá Morto... Ou Não Tá? being bad, can be considered to be so bad, that it's good.

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