Mortal Kombat cartoon review

On April 14, the cartoon Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge was released – a new attempt to transfer the cult fighting game to TV screens. Previously, franchises already released animated films, but they all did not match the games. They did not have blood and fatality, and the setting of battles left much to be desired.

I watched Scorpion’s Revenge and am ready to answer the main question: did the authors manage to create the perfect cartoon for the fans? Spoiler – yes, but with serious reservations.

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Trailer Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge

The key to the Mortal Kombat franchise has always been incredible cruelty. Torn hands, torn intestines and spines, cut off legs and so on – “Mortal Kombat” is clearly not suitable for impressionable people and small children (ha ha). But this applies only to games – there is simply no cruelty in films and cartoons. In both full-length films and the series, there is practically no blood, as in Defenders of the Earth or Journey Begins.

After watching Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, I had the feeling that before starting work, Ed Boone himself approached the creators of the cartoon and said: “There must be so much cruelty that even I feel sick!” And the authors did it – the blood here pours literally oceans from everywhere. Almost no hero on the screen dies quickly – he will be sure to cut something off, break it, tear it off or blow it up. And all this is accompanied by gorgeous special effects similar to the X-Ray attacks from Mortal Kombat X or Mortal Kombat 11.

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Trailer Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge

The staging of battles also did not disappoint. Heroes use tricks familiar from childhood, and the virtual operator captures the most juicy shots. Particularly brutal reprisals are demonstrated with a time dilation. Simply put: battles look amazing.

Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge has huge problems with everything else. The original idea of the scriptwriters does not fit well into the timing (the cartoon takes two hours), and obviously I wanted to show a lot. Scorpio’s revenge, which is in the title of the cartoon, takes 30-40 minutes out of these two hours, not more.

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Everything else is another defile with already familiar characters, unnecessary dialogs and absolutely stupid script errors. For example, some heroes were put on the screen just for show. Kitana appears for just a minute, and Jax is inappropriately removed in the middle — also in a couple of minutes. And such a disaster in almost everything. At two o’clock, it’s simply impossible to fit a linked story in which there would be a famous tournament and Scorpio. But there’s more than enough fan service: every fan will surely count a dozen references to films and games. There is even a branded phrase Get Over Here.

The ending in the cartoon is both terrible and impressive. It’s impossible to open it without spoilers, so I’ll say this: the cartoon simultaneously departed and did not depart from the canon, which was shown in films and games before.

Due to the final scenes, it is safe to say that the cartoon is waiting for a sequel. And this is wonderful – in our “right” and politically correct world, he seems to be a guest from the past. There is a lot of blood, there is no feminism, and even mats sometimes slip through.

Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge turned out to be controversial and crumpled, but he wants to forgive a lot for the high-quality setting of fights, with bated hope that in the next parts this “lot” will disappear.

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