Action League Now! (1995)

Directed by

Tim Hill

Genre

action television series

Country

United States

Length

3 seasons, 30 episodes

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A team of mismatched action figures and toys operate as a superhero league inside a normal house. Their adventures are filmed with crude stop-motion and thrown objects, making everything feel clumsy and funny.

sillymock-heroicfast-pacedlow-budgetslapstickplayfulminiature-scaleabsurd

What happens

Action League Now! (advertised as Action League Now!: The Series when packaged into a half-hour block) is a series of stop motion shorts that aired as part of both All That and KaBlam! on Nickelodeon. It was made using "chuckimation", a combination of stop-frame animation and live-action shots where things are simply thrown ("chucked") or dropped into frame to simulate movement, and wiggled around to simulate talking. The series follows the adventures of a superhero league, composed of various action figures, toys, and dolls. The show was created by Robert Mittenthal, Will McRobb, and Albie Hecht. Most episodes took place in the house of an unseen resident. Many of the characters were voiced by radio personalities from Pittsburgh. From November 25, 2001 until February 10, 2002, Nickelodeon briefly ran Action League Now! shorts on their own, combined to fill a half-hour timeslot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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