[6.4/10] I like humorous episodes and out there concepts as much, if not more, than the next guy, but this one didn’t really work for me. Making Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern into kids felt much more like a gimmick than something the show really used to interesting, or even humorous, ends.
The show’s take on how young kids act with one another was pretty lame. There’s a few good gags about a classroom full of students having their taskmaster teacher whisked away or young John Stewart having fifty ideas of what to do with his ring at once. But for the most part, it’s just the most broad stereotypes of kids imaginable -- flighty crushes, “I’m telling!”, “No fair!” kinds of nonsense. There’s no real insight into kids, and the shtick isn’t funny, especially not the “baby go boom boom” take on Etragon.
There’s a few redeeming elements here though. For one thing, the show at least comes up with a good excuse for why our heroes have to turn into little kids, with Mordfed using a macguffin amulet to banish all the adults. I always appreciate it when the good guys have to save the day using their heads rather than their fists, so the “break the MacGuffin” plan failing, only for Batman and the others to trick “precious” Mordred into making himself grow up and thus be banished as well is a cool resolution. I also liked the Twilight Zone style ending, where Mordred breaking his mom’s youth spell made him prematurely aged, in a “be careful what you wish for” fashion
Still, much of this episode is just unavailing kiddie superhero hijinks. The DCAU has done plenty of exciting and even hilarious episodes involving kids, but this gimmick and the story built around it just doesn't cut it.
Shout by D.seLBlockedParent2021-05-15T07:26:22Z
Another corrupt episode... Wtf is up with this DVD set