Marvel's M.O.D.O.K. (2021)

Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. suffers from not only being not as funny as it should be, but it also pumps the fan service gags instead of actually developing the world around its star supervillain.

Marvel dives big head first into the Adult Swim sandbox with "M.O.D.O.K.," a stop-motion animation series that seeks hilarity in exploring the lighter side of one of the more ridiculous denizens of the comics. While the show -- decidedly not for kids -- should amuse those steeped in comic-book trivia, the kick of doing something different is offset by the sheer weirdness of the effort.

Mostly, though, this is a cool-looking, cheerfully dark, oddball adult comedy with great voice work by the brilliant cast and strong writing in every episode. By the time we get to the shocking final episode of the first season, we’re already primed for more “M.O.D.O.K.”

It has a consistent cleverness that makes its flaws easy to overlook, especially when the lines are delivered by such talented voice actors. It's just a fun world to hang out in with talented comedians in every scene.

The voices and pell-mell references are the biggest reason why a 10-episode weekend binge of Marvel’s MODOK amounted to such easy, quickly digested entertainment. Whether or not you think the series wants to amount to more than that — and I feel like it really does, and perhaps someday could — depends on you.

If you’re a fan of Adult Swim-esque humor and have always wondered what that might look like in the Marvel Universe, “M.O.D.O.K.” is going to make you laugh and maybe make you feel sympathy for a megalomaniacal C-list supervillain.

By the middle of its 10-episode first season, the series becomes genuinely funny in its own peculiar way. Unlikable characters start to grow on you. And the insane plots, subplots and narrative issues — many of them inspired distortions of what goes on in the serious Marvel Cinematic Universe — grab one’s imagination. In other words, this one is worth watching too.

The show is just a really solid piece of comedy, from the writing, to the animation of the toy-like characters, to the (naturally) Easter egg-filled background gags, and it shows how malleable the superhero genre is once you accept the fact that people don’t need to be carefully guided through a comic book universe anymore.

A série é sensacional, incrível, amável e com certeza não é para todos os público. Modok da marvel é uma animação adulta bem diferente das outras já que traz um personagem não regular da marvel para um público amplo que não o conhece bem ainda e joga uma história linda e bem elaborada que todo fã da marvel ama, modok não é para todos é claro, mas o público que assisti-lo irá se identificará muito. Espero que gostem da série tanto quanto eu

One of the funniest new comedies of the last five years. It's a predictable travesty that Disney cancelled it. Its main USP is MODOK himself, a massively insecure, egotistical moron/genius and supervillain with a giant head and tiny doll-like legs and arms. Played by Patton Oswalt at his most absurdist and deranged, MODOK is a brilliant character. The rest of the cast isn't nearly as charismatic and funny, even the currently ubiquitous Ben Schwartz, who's been good in everything else I've seen him in. He plays MODOK's son, an eminently bully-able teenage boy(who, unfortunately, never becomes remotely funny or likable). One of the stupidest(ie. best) jokes is that MODOK's two kids looks so different, his daughter taking after MODOK and thus floating around as a giant head with floppy rag-doll physics for her lower half, his son taking after MODO's ex-wife, and thus looking completely normal. This joke is never alluded to at any point, it just sits there being absurd. And that is the show in a nutshell, MODOK unleashing a barrage of absurdist narcissism upon everyone around him, while also trying to deal with the agony and depression of a divorce. The latter occasionally serves to make the show quite melancholy, which seems to be the trend with these kinds of animations, eg. Rick and Morty, Bojack, etc. I don't think it quite works here - the tonal whiplash is slightly too much. But it doesn't matter; MODOK/Patton Oswalt is so good that all the little details that don't quite work, from casting to pacing and plotting, are rendered irrelevant. I'd love it if someone picked this show up and gave it another season, but no-one seems to have given much of a **** about it being cancelled in the first place, and it's a Marvel property. **** likely. A real shame.

M.0.D.0.K. Has the same type of humor as family guy but far less jokes land. The animation is pleasant to look at and the characters are decent.

A little unoriginal for a family sitcom. However, what MODOK really excels in is character relationships. Despite being more focused on toilet humor, MODOK and how he connects with his coworkers and family members were fun to watch, with MODOK becoming less and less of an ass. Can't wait for season 2

Why is this… really good? I had really low expectations for this to be honest, I never liked Robot Chicken much, especially its pop culture parody specials, and I was pretty certain this would go down like Star Trek Lower Decks: trying to hard to be different from its source material, but in the end feeling like a tonally confused mess with no memorable characters and way too many references that anyone who isn’t a diehard fan won’t care about. And yeah this show starts pretty weak, with a lot of the same predictable humor as the Robot Chicken specials, but not only does the comedy absolutely improve FAST the further you go in the season, but the show also really gets you invested in just about every character, even the original ones and ones based on some of the most obscure silver age comic villains, over the course of the season. Even the show’s pathetic, inept depiction of the villainous MODOK (a character I had no prior knowledge of before this show) becomes shockingly sympathetic, I honestly felt like I wanted to see this random c-list Marvel villain guy to succeed more than I did Loki by the end. And while I don’t want to spoil it, the plot is on par with some of the best DC animated films, and to my knowledge it’s not based on any comic series either! People loved Wandavision for being slightly weird and experimental for a mainstream superhero show, where’s the love for this? So while I’m not sure how likely it is at the moment, here’s to hoping for season 2, I guess…

Modok was a low-commitment background show while cooking for me, at first. Characters are rapid fire joke dispensers, the story is very simple and easy to follow, and it generally feels, at least in the beginning, like a longform Robot Chicken episode with sprinkles of inspiration from Moral Orel and Bojack Horseman. Much like either of those aforementioned shows, it gradually heats up to a point where you find yourself engaging more closely, without needing housechores to keep your brain busy, and by the end you're left wanting much more. For those who can get past the slow start, I think Modok has a lot to offer from episodes 3 or 4 onward. It never really goes full-dramedy, at least not for more than a minute's time, but it's surprisingly effective at luring viewers in with easy low-effort comedy and then getting them to engage with the core idea which makes Modok's family drama stand out from the crowd. It's not an easy sell, but it those establishing episodes pay off in spades by the end.

Bo-ring. Yeah there are a lot of subtle callouts to other movies and media, but it doesn't make an ENTERTAINING whole. Lots of stuff happens, but I didn't really care about it because it was just a jumble of ideas that didn't have any cohesive link, which makes sense as the skit comedy robot chicken crew were powering this and they don't seem to know how to do a non-skit show. MODOK confirmed that I'm robot-chickened out. Seth green needs to find a new horizon and set a course for THAT. MODOK would have been better as a 3D animated cartoon or a traditional animation show with much better writing. I had no interest in finishing the series and went back to catching up on the infinitely better show Mythic Quest. I gave this a 5 strictly because of Patton Oswalt leaving it all on the (virtual) stage, but the SHOW deserved a 3 or so if judged on its meager merits.

Not funny at all. I don't get how with all these people involved they have made something so boring. I give a 3 rating thanks to the adaptoid.

This show tries too hard to be funny. It’s unbelievably unfunny, the jokes are so basic and unbearably unfunny and are so frequent that the show is unwatchable. Who wrote these jokes? It sounds like a group of middle aged white woman who think Jimmy Fallon is the funniest “comedian.”