EARLY ENTRY in the endless foreign import animation stable (see AROUND THE WORLD WITH WILLY FOGG) with all those dreaded elements already in place: weird bastardisation of original hero (here sporting – eh? – a beard), unnecessary meddling with the companions (one apparently called Johnny), sassy robot for the youngsters.
THX 1139
February 1, 2018 at 3:10 pm
If you watch an episode of this on YouTube, you’ll see it was called The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo, the Cap didn’t have a beard but did have a reverse Dickie Davies dark streak in his hair, and I couldn’t spot a robot. Looks like an educational five minuter, a la Sealab. The bastardisation comment is entirely correct, however. Blame Jacques Cousteau.