TV Review

Tokyo Pig (2002)

Reviewed by | Sep 04, 2002
Tokyo Pig | 'TOKYO' 'TOON ''Pig'' occasionally finds tasty truffles in muddy scripts
Image credit: Tokyo Pig: Miramax/ABC Cable Networks
'TOKYO' 'TOON ''Pig'' occasionally finds tasty truffles in muddy scripts
EW's GRADE
C+

Details Start Date: Sep 14, 2002; Genre: Cartoons/Animation; Network: ABC

The latest addition to the welter of imported Japanese animated series (''Pokémon,'' ''Yu-Gi-Oh!,'' etc.) arrives courtesy of -- go figure -- executive producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein. It's Tokyo Pig (ABC Family), a wild, incomprehensible, but not unenjoyable mishmash about a boy named Spencer and his magic pig, Sunny. ''Tokyo'' features visuals that are at once frenetically busy and crudely drawn. Occasionally the action stops for musical numbers in which Sunny dances against a backdrop of disembodied pig snouts. (Yes, you read that right.) Typical bit of dubbed dialogue: ''What in the wiggly world have I created now?''

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Originally posted Sep 04, 2002 Published in issue #670 Sep 06, 2002 Order article reprints
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