SummaryThe animated comedy created by Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, and Tom Gleisner focuses on an elite undercover police investigative unit working on the Gold Coast of Australia.
SummaryThe animated comedy created by Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, and Tom Gleisner focuses on an elite undercover police investigative unit working on the Gold Coast of Australia.
Pacific Heat refuses to give its characters any breathing room, instead overstuffing each episode with an overabundance of zingers and ultimately pointless gags.
It’s not anywhere close to what’s needed to make this kind of humor work, and just one more reason you shouldn’t be wasting your time on this wannabe when the real thing is one click away.
Pacific Heat feels hollowed out and devoid of even the slightest measure of personality. Even the animation design feels completely apathetic and bare-bones, which might have been fine if the writing had elicited any emotion beyond boredom and one or two blips of offense.
It’s visually unpleasant. The jokes make up in repetition what they lack in elegance or wit. And the dialogue doesn’t just flirt with racism: Occasionally, it takes racism to bed and makes sweet, discomfiting love to it.