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Marvel's Hit-Monkey
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 17, 2021
57
7.6
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
57
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
57
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
17% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
George Takei is Hit-Monkey’s best surprise. His performance as Shinji Yokohama is compelling, shocking, and heartbreaking (perhaps in that order). He has great chemistry with Olivia Munn, who plays his niece Akiko, and their scenes together are quietly effective. ... The series is highly bingeable while also providing satisfying individual installments. ... However you choose to watch Hit-Monkey, you’re in for a treat.
Monkey has moments of remorse and seems to hate being a killer, but at the end of the day, Hit Monkey is at its best when it’s simply a show about a monkey killing bad guys.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
7.6
82% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
7% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
11% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
7.6
82% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
7% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
11% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Hit Monkey is a delightful romp that hits all of the familiar notes of the reluctant assassin genre while feeling playful and occasionally heartfelt. Great voice acting with George Takei as a particularly standout, effective character design and good fight animation. Better than it had any right to be, to be fair. A second season would be welcome.
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We’re just not sure where the show is going to land on the tonal line. Takei and Munn’s characters could go either way. And, given that we don’t know a ton about Bryce, we may learn things about him that bring out Sudeikis’ considerable dramatic acting ability. We don’t need Hit-Monkey to be all serious or all funny. But it’s really hard to get a handle on what it wants to be, much less where it’s headed.
Hit-Monkey himself isn’t a bad character, as one-joke characters go, and he grows more expressive as the series goes along. By the end of the finale, I was curious about more of his adventures, but I would recommend either a change in setting or an expansion of the writing staff, beyond people hung up on flaccid quips and caricatures. Monkeys deserve better. The genre deserves smarter.
Given what it takes to render a world like this, and the glimmer of potential it does show, something like “Hit-Monkey” should never feel this hollow.
All told, “Hit-Monkey” is a prime example of a show that has all the makings of a good time, with a ridiculous, borderline silly plot and a talented cast and crew to bring it to life, but somehow everything is botched along the way.
Hit-Monkey hits it out of park with an absolute hilarious and non-stop badass story laden down with Marvel references. Definitely worth a rewatch. Had an absolute **** blast with this series and really hope we get a second season. Lady Bullseye was an excellent villain and Sudeikis is non stop busting guts.
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This is amazing. This is what constitutes an 'adult animation'. Unlike The Invicible, a cartoon that mistook gore and vulgarity for being "mature", Hit-Monkey uses animation as part of the narrative and expression of its dive to explore the dichotomy of man and nature.
But what makes it tryuly unique is that the animators forfeited the unspoken "western animation" molds/guidlines. freeing themselves to shape the visual narrative and expressions that tells much more than the spoken words. This might as well be considered a trully good "anime". Not a wanna-be(Avatar), but a uniquely stylized and captivating visual novel.
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Production Company:
- Marvel Entertainment
- Marvel Animation
- 20th Television Animation
- Floyd County Productions
- Hulu
- Marvel Television
Initial Release Date: Nov 17, 2021
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
