Max Steel

So there's this plastic-looking CGI guy who regularly does things like bungee-jump and wrestle wild sharks, for the pure savage THRILL of it all, and suddenly he gets accidentally infused with nanobots, and THEN he joins a secret agent group. And I think it got even more contrived from there.
 
Yeah...when Mainframe took over for Foundation Imaging - they tried to retain the look and morph it into Action Man; forgetting to realize their studio's strong suit was never realism (of which Foundation Imaging was vastly familliar with), but rather for cartoony products. The idea of Mainframe taking over the show was even a bad idea in thought...I'll never understand why it was even considered, not to mentioned followed through with.
 
Season One will be mostly by the books.

But Season Two is rumoured to feature crossovers with Doozybots, Mr. T, Beast Machines, and Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos.

This is one show that you CAN'T afford to miss!
 
I remember one episode where he goes into the Great Pyramid to investigate reports of a mummy, which turned out to be a robot mummy made by the bad guys to distract people from their operations in the pyramid. Cause, I mean, robot mummies never attract attention.
 
Max Steel was just a cheap marketing attempt to cash in on the extreme sports/secret agent shtick in order to make an action show guaranteed to appeal to 10-year-old boys. Boys like secret agents, and they like extreme sports, so what if someone made a show about an extreme sports athlete who's also a secret agent? Thankfully, someone did.

The only thing I've witnessed in recent years which was more wannabe-cool than Max Steel was that Kids' WB TV movie Zolar, about a skateboarding alien. In one scene, it was revealed that all of the world's extreme sports athletes were actually space aliens. The director should have been lynched for that one scene alone.
 
I was turned off immediately by a toy commercial featuring Max Steel blowing up the villain "Psycho"...for absolutely no reason! The dude wasn't doing anything at all and he gets blown up while that obnoxious "TAKE IT TO THE MAX! MAX STEEL!" jingle plays. Not my idea of a good show. :sweat:
 
Ha ha ha! :D For some reason, that actually sounds like half of all the action figure toy ads of the past decade.

I'm so glad I never got into any of those 'extreme' series of the '90s. I guess I had enough common sense to avoid that fad.
 
I kinda liked Max Steel, the only one who like it. Notice some interesting thing beside the action.

Josh/Max was adopted; his father mystering dead and his mother drown.

having a love affair between Rachel and Laura

I liked his new partner Kat.

The animation improve when Mainframe did the first season. The Netter Digital who the first and second when bankrup.
 
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