1982 brought us one of the great action/survivor movies of all time, First Blood starring Sylvester Stallone as bad ass green beret John Rambo. After the release of the sequel, Rambo: First Blood Part II. Animation company Ruby-Spears who create such classics like Alvin and the Chipmunks, Thundarr the Barbarian, Mister T, and The Centurions thought that they can popularize the acclaim success of the movies in the realm of children's programming..WTF?!?! Have these guys seen the movies? They're fuckin' violent. And the character of John Rambo is TRAGIC!! Let me sum up the first movie for ya. He comes home, see's a friend but find out that he died months ago, had a disagreement with the local authorities that ended up harassing him, Rambo kills them all woodland style, almost destroys the town, calms down and cries in front of his superior, gets arrested end of story. And they made this into a fuckin cartoon for kids. Well, shall we begin.
The series was called Rambo: The Force of Freedom. You can find a few episodes on YouTube, but today I'm just going to talk about the first episode entitled First Strike. The episode starts off by an invasion in a fictional Latin American village called Terra Libre lead my General Warhawk who is the main baddie and his band of security guard rejects. They come in tanks blazing, burning down houses, knocking people on there asses. Very intense shit for a kiddie show. This brings interest to the United States and we like to be involved in EEEEVERYTHING and they send in Rambo to bring down the terrorist army. When we get introduce to our main character, we see Rambo lying on a book with a book over his face. I hope that the book was entitled War and Peace, because this is bullshit. Rambo wouldn't be lying on a boat with a book over his face. Rambo would be in the woods covered in leaves, be on top of a tree branch armed with his knife, landing on a deer gutting the poor bastard. but no a helicopter woke his ass up telling him "Your Country Needs You!" And this is the same country that when he went ape-shit he ends up arrested. LOL :) Then we meet up with Rambo partner Turbo a Formula 1 driver, mechanic, and the token black guy. I know this shit is totally fantasy. THERE NO NIGGAS IN NASCAR OR FORMULA 1 in that matter. When we drive we don't drive in fuckin circles. When we drive we're gone! Plus, it's one of the few only sports the White Man has left. And then there's the master of disguise named Cat. They might as well called her Pussy cuz that's what she was the Token Pussy. The looks on the guys faces were predicable. Turbo was like "nigga, I got next,"
So they all went down to Terra Libre and go to down on the bad guys, and this is where this show shows it's colors on how stupid it is. Rambo single handily takes out some guys with rifles and didn't take there weapons. Bull----Shit!!! Rambo would've taken out his knife spattered the guy's guts on the ground takes his rifle and shots the other guy. And then Rambo takes a tank and starts to play chicken with another tank. This is where they got an idea for a action sequence for Rambo III. Rambo 1 tank 0. So after taking out more bad guys and a lot of shit talking. The only way to stop General Warhawk is to destroy a bridge with a tank. God these people love tanks. Warpath from Transformers would be proud. I don't know who played Rambo in this, but his voice sounds retarded. They should've had Sly do this after all it's his character. And every time General Trougton says Rambo it's like Raaambo which sounds kinda silly. Even the movie theme is in this by Jerry Goldsmith. That's the one good thing about this show.
And after all of that crap, there was also a toyline. Like most shows from the 80s, 30min toy commercials. That's what this was. Would I recommend this for someone? If they're a fan of Rambo from the films, fuck no. But if you want a small piece of nostalgia you can stomach a few episodes. View at your own risk. But hopefully there won't be nothing like this again. Taking a really good movie with a very good story and some animation company want to kiddie grade it. I WAS WRONG!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tRjuiObl4
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