They’re all let down by the writing, which goes down some interesting new paths in an attempt to set this Cowboy Bebop apart from the original, but there aren’t enough worthwhile things at the end of them.

Pineda also finds new angles on Faye to make her feel like her own character, but Shakir is outpaced by Cho and gets lost between doing his own performance and trying to emulate the Jet from the anime. But Cho is clearly putting his entire heart into the role, and he does a phenomenal job because of it. If there’s a cool thing from the anime, this Cowboy Bebop will fight like hell to make it sillier or stupider.Īndré Nemec’s adaptation doesn’t trust the audience nor does it trust itself it plasters over that lack of confidence with a sense of cartoonish detachment in the sets and the performances that practically say, “We’re not taking any of this too seriously, so you don’t have to either.” The actors are mostly fine, given the heightened silliness of everything going on. Iconic lines or songs are dropped like someone was checking them off a list, and other moments directly pulled from the source material are needlessly expanded to clearly spell out character motivations. Things that the original expects you to just accept, like character names, are questioned and underlined and over-explained here.

Unlike the anime, the live-action series sometimes feels like it’s embarrassed to be associated with any of this. Michael Jordan blows gasket in box over Kelly Oubre’s ill-fated shotĪmazon Delivery Van Cut In Half By Amtrak Train To take on something like Cowboy Bebop, which has already proven itself so brilliant in its music, art style, and largely unimpeachable English dub, and try to make it into a new series that will inevitably be compared to one of the high-water marks of an entire artistic medium seems like nothing more than volunteering for failure.ĭrake Issues First Statement on Astroworld as Travis Scott's Love of 'Raging' Draws Closer Scrutinyīattlefield 2042 Players Join XP Farm Not Knowing They Are The XP The entertainment industry has a shaky history with live-action adaptations of anime, both on Netflix and elsewhere. It’s easy to look at Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, an anime so highly regarded that even calling it a “masterpiece” might not cover it, and just assume that it never had a chance to live up to its potential. John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, and Daniella Pineda in Cowboy Bebop

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