Mini reviews of Television seasons old and new. No fuss. No spoilers. Occasional bunnies.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series (2007)

An anthology of short animated tales featuring the virtual bra-busting Brit, Lara Croft, from a number of different writers and animators. Each creator puts their own unique spin on the Lara character, which range from the wonderfully inventive (Keys to the Kingdom) to the piss-poor self-parody (Revenge of the Aztec Mummy). None of them bother to waste time giving back-story or history. They assume that most viewers will already have knowledge of that from the games. The short format really doesn't allow for that kind of exposition, anyhow.

Actress Minnie Driver voices Lara in every episode. I wouldn't have put her on the list of candidates, but she does a fantastic job and if ever there's a feature-length Tomb Raider animation she’d now be my first choice. Both Minnie, and the series in general, were great.

I'll post a full list of contributors in the comments section, so check there if you want to know who was involved.

Further series of ‘Re\Visioned’ set to feature different video game characters was promised, but to my knowledge only the Tomb Raider one appeared.

10 episodes, approx 6 minutes each.

3½ sacred artefacts are nothing but trouble out of 5

1 comment:

Dr Faustus said...

The full list of contributors (in episode order) are as follows:

Writers:
Peter Chung / Brian Pulido / Warren Ellis / Gail Simone / Michael A. Stackpole / Jim Lee & Christos N. Gage

Animators:
Peter Chung / David Álvarez / Cully Hamner / Ivan Reis / Six Point Harness / Louie del Carmen / Jim Lee