Big Mouth

Netflix | Release Date: September 29, 2017

6.2	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 104 Ratings

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BobCakin008Oct 6, 2019

The art style keeps it from being any good. Seriously, there are a few jokes that are mildly entertaining (and I mean mildly), but I never can laugh because the art style is just so terrible. It looks like cheap ass go-animate **** and thereThe art style keeps it from being any good. Seriously, there are a few jokes that are mildly entertaining (and I mean mildly), but I never can laugh because the art style is just so terrible. It looks like cheap ass go-animate **** and there is very little creativity involved. The animation is the cheapest looking animation I have seen in such a high budget show and it just is not any fun at all to watch. It is pretty clear to me that all of the budget went to hiring the star-studded cast and absolutely no effort at all was put into animation... which is kind of a bad idea for an ANIMATED SHOW!

In terms of comedy... it's really average. The jokes are way too easy and they feel like the jokes I would make right off the top of my head. The Statue of Liberty is a smoking depressed French person... how original! (Sarcasm... that joke about French people has been made a 1000 times before) All the other jokes are about the awkwardness of going through puberty and... they are all so painfully standard! Like... "He got a boner in class! Isn't that funny! HAR HAR HAR" or "He came in his pants! LOL". Beyond that... there is not much else to it. I think the funniest stuff comes from when the hormone monsters give terrible advice... but even that is a hit or a miss.

The show is honestly painful for me to watch at times... not because it gives off second hand awkwardness... but because it is trying so hard to be funny and it just rarely ever lands a decent joke. I keep hearing people say that it is such a smart show for it's depiction of puberty as a monster... but honestly... that is a really obvious metaphor! Like I have seen so much media that has already done that... it's not that smart. Also, they call themselves the "Hormone Monsters"... they missed an opportunity to call them the "Hormonesters" and have a joke about how that's a terrible pun or some BS.… Expand

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NobodyYouKnowNov 8, 2022

I loved the first three seasons -- they get a 9 for great jokes (some so quick you'll miss them if you're laughing at the previous joke) and fearlessly addressing the awkward and taboo changes that come with puberty. Season 4 introduced aI loved the first three seasons -- they get a 9 for great jokes (some so quick you'll miss them if you're laughing at the previous joke) and fearlessly addressing the awkward and taboo changes that come with puberty. Season 4 introduced a trans character, and this marked the beginning of a noticeable change in BM's storytelling style: it started becoming preachy. I think the introduction of a trans character was good, but the writers chose to use the character's change (boy transitioned to girl/woman) as a device to preach to the audience about how to interact with and speak to trans people. It sucked the air out of the rest of the characters.

And this approach continued in seasons 5 and 6. Rather than letting the story unfold in an organic way, they chose to give some characters heavy-handed dialogue clearly intended to tell the audience what the writers believe is right and wrong about how you should deal with LGBTQ+ issues/people. What really knocked the show down a peg for me was episode 8 of season 6 where Jessi tells her dad and dad's pregnant girlfriend that they should raise the baby gender neutral and call the baby "they".
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Gender neutrality in and of itself is perfectly fine, IMO, but I don't need a cartoon to beat me over the head with a hammer labeled "GENDER SUCKS!" There is no inherent problem with gender and pronouns; the problem is with people insisting that biological males *behave* a certain way and biological females *behave* a certain other way. People who believe in those stereotypes will continue believing regardless of what pronouns you insist they use. I really don't need a raunchy comedy about sex to try to convince me to refer to babies as "they". Just create engaging characters (which the show has done) and let their stories -- and *dialogue* -- unfold in a natural way.
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The show still makes me laugh which is why I still watch, but if the show keeps amping up its preachiness, I don't know how much longer I'll stay for the ride. Preaching just isn't funny.… Expand

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