Posts by Alex Bonilla

 
  • Samurai Jack and its 22-Minute Exploration of “The First Time”

    Samurai Jack and its 22-Minute Exploration of “The First Time”

    Content warning: This article discusses explicit themes explored in a recent episode of Samurai Jack, a show not suitable for some younger audiences. Genndy Tartakovsky has returned to form with an excellent fifth season of Samurai Jack, airing this year […]

     
  • Last Week in Animation: May 8th

    Last Week in Animation: May 8th

    Welcome to Overly Animated’s Last Week in Animation! This is a new recurring series where we aggregate the news items most relevant to fans of the shows we cover regularly, as well as interesting tidbits on other animated television and […]

     
  • Top 5 Animation Universes – Overly Animated Podcast #365

    Top 5 Animation Universes – Overly Animated Podcast #365

    Justin Cummings, John McKenna, and Alex Bonilla count down their 5 best animated show universes/worlds!

     
  • Last Week in Animation: May 1st

    Last Week in Animation: May 1st

    Welcome to Overly Animated’s Last Week in Animation! This is a new recurring series where we aggregate the news items most relevant to fans of the shows we cover regularly, as well as interesting tidbits on other animated television and […]

     
  • The State of Adventure Time’s Plot Post-Elements

    The State of Adventure Time’s Plot Post-Elements

    Adventure Time has now struck gold three times out of three with their miniseries approach, this time concluding their “Elements” miniseries with some great character interactions and a culmination of lore hints that the show has been cultivating since “Evergreen” […]

     
  • Last Week in Animation: April 23rd

    Last Week in Animation: April 23rd

    Overly Animated is testing a new recurring series, Last Week in Animation. This is meant to aggregate the news items most relevant to fans of the shows covered by Overly Animated, as well as interesting tidbits related to other animated […]

     
  • Orb (Adventure Time) – Overly Animated Podcast #355

    Orb (Adventure Time) – Overly Animated Podcast #355

    Dylan Hysen, Sam Quattro, and Alex Bonilla discuss the April 21st episode of Adventure Time, “Orb”.

     
  • Picking Apart The New Steven Universe Promo

    Picking Apart The New Steven Universe Promo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3rBq8JFyQ4 Well, it looks like this latest hiatus in the Steven Universe airing schedule is going to end earlier than expected, as a new promo by Cartoon Network was released today advertising an event (presumably five episodes at least) slated […]

     
  • A Look Back on Rango, and a Look Ahead to Adult Animation

    A Look Back on Rango, and a Look Ahead to Adult Animation

    When you look at the winners of the Best Animated Feature category at the Academy Awards over the last ten years, you’ll notice only one movie that breaks from the recent trends: 2016: Zootopia, Disney 2015: Inside Out, Pixar 2014: […]

     
  • Tangled: Before Ever After — Like Rapunzel’s Hair, There’s Room For Growth

    Tangled: Before Ever After — Like Rapunzel’s Hair, There’s Room For Growth

    Want to win a movie trivia night? Disney’s 2010 animated film Tangled, as of March 2017, is still the most expensive animated film ever produced, at an estimated production budget of $260 million. While it actually doubled its astronomical budget […]