wait remember tack in the power of juju it was an american-made cgi tv series based on the 2003 thq
video game of the same name yes the video game came first in the tv series spawn second a rare
move that i respect now make chameleon twisting croc tv shows cowards tacking the power of juju
is noteworthy as the first cgi series directly overseen by nickelodeon studios the tv series
follows tack a young shaman in training tasked with the responsibility of protecting his village
and all the pupu nunu people inside of it from threats magical and fierce speaking of magic
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tak is our main character and protagonist of the series he's a teenager bestowed with the
magical ability to call upon the powers of the jujus a race of magical creatures that
reside in a different realm the source of tax connection to the juju's is strongly implied
to be his mother the juju aurora who created the magical crystal that powers tak's staff
tak's fun-loving and mischievous nature often leads to him misusing his magic abilities
resulting in the exact problems he's supposed to be preventing that's such a main character thing
to do tac lives with his uncle and juju teacher shaman jaboba little is known about what happened
to tak's human father but despite this jaboba does his best to train his nephew in the ways
of the juju while being a good shaman for the rest of the pupanunu tribe that's debatable jabalba's
connection with the realm of juju besides his magical abilities has given him an increased
lifespan and i'll say he's looking good for the age what's your workout routine man joining tack
on his goof-offs is jira tak's fun-loving best friend and the village chief's youngest daughter
jira is nice funny and is implied that she might have romantic feelings for tech i mean tech has
its own video game franchise and now a tv show maybe a movie deal would be next no just a video
game remake slash reboot well hey well that's a start jira intak's best friend is kiko a similarly
aged pupununu villager with no parents who lives in a nearby cave while being a more comedic relief
type of character he creates several inventions throughout the series though only a few of them
ever managed to truly work jira's father the village chief is a subpar but overall harmless
leader of the village who switches between being mad attack for misusing his juju powers
and causing issues for everyone and begging tak to use his magic to fix whatever problem has popped
up this is the type of energy that puts a person in therapy living in the village with tack is also
luck the resident warrior who's more talk than action letting his cowardice get in the way of
ever actually doing anything and then talking up what few accomplishments he actually does have he
serves as another comic relief character for the show and is voiced by one of the most reoccurring
voices you'll hear in the animation space patrick warburton hey dak is that the power of juju
you know what yeah all right the juju powers must be working
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the source of tax magical abilities both in the show and the games are the juju's these magical
creatures tac can call upon when he needs help each juju has their own unique thing
they represent while these juju are by and large helpful occasionally they cause problems for tak
and the pupununu people by messing around in the human realm throughout the series we see juju's
like belly juju a hungry juju whose stomach has taken over his mouth big boss juju a fire and
rock looking monster who is the mightiest juju in the realm bug juju a small juju who has command
over bugs that one was just straightforward and to the point and also voiced by wayne knight there's
judge juju no that's judge judy judge juju is dressed as a judge and then there's judge's
pet pilger fish no that's not a bella porch song that's the name of the monster with three heads
and a dragon-like body so that's neat but there are tons of juju's overall this isn't a ranking
video of all the individual juju's so we'll just move on from this point unlike the video games
there is no main antagonist intact in the power of juju show instead different threats rotate
throughout the series with these threats being sometimes magical sometimes human which is kind
of a weird and different break from the norm when it comes to shows like this so i appreciate it for
always trying to do things a bit differently the show first aired on august 31 2007 and ran until
january 24th 2009 culminating in 26 episodes yeah a year and a half to produce 26 episodes is pretty
spread thin so it's no wonder that the show only lasted for a single season reruns of the series
aired on nicktoons until september 3rd 2012 and it was cancelled overall due to low ratings but how
do you expect ratings viewership and support for a series to happen if you take a year and a half to
produce one season to be fair it really ended in november of 2008 with a final part that released
in january but regardless there is a dedicated fan base of the games in extension the show but there
is reasons for the low ratings a lot of people just didn't like the show claiming it to be one of
if not the worst show at the time in nickelodeon's history not a very nice title to have but that's
the ship it ultimately sank on tack in the power of juju was a co-production between thq
and nickelodeon with the project overseen by nick jennings an american director artist and producer
who during his career in animation has worked on such shows as spongebob squarepants and adventure
time and apparently tack in the power of juju thq was a california-based video game company founded
in 1990 by jack friedman during its operation thq made several games alongside attacking the power
of juju including darksiders destroy all humans mx vs atv and saints row thq had several long-term
licensing agreements with sports and entertainment companies during its operation including disney
and dreamworks so by the time they entered into an agreement with nickelodeon to produce a tv series
spin-off of attack and the power of juju thq had quite a bit of experience with entertainment
networks thq has been defunct since 2013 having declared bankruptcy that year but there is a
silver lining we will get to soon in the attack and the power of juju video game a bitter pupununu
shaman named trelock weakens the moon juju the kind protector of the pupununu people so he can
turn the pupununu into sheep as revenge for being passed over as the next high shaman for
jaboba lok is turned into a sheep so it's up to tac to gather magical plants to change lock back
which works but the pair discovered that the sheep wasn't lock after all and then a bunch more stuff
happens listen the games i think are held in more fondness than the show is clearly there's tack
in the power of juju tattoo the staff of dreams attacking the guardians of gross attack the great
juju challenge tack mojo mistake on the nintendo ds and attack moonstone madness on pc tak would
also be featured in some of the nicktoons games as a playable character and had levels of the
pupuna village and then the burial grounds within nicktoons baseball don't go away tack is up next
and the juju just keeps getting stronger attack and the power of juju next here on nicktoons
while the show is inspired by the video game there is questionable connectivity between
the game series and the tv series with it best to treat the works as two separate things one
main example for this continuity issue is the main antagonist in the games versus the series
in the game the main antagonist is a rejected village shaman treylock in the series treylock
is reworked in the show for a much tinier role being an antagonist in only a few episodes versus
the central villain of the story some of the smaller aesthetic differences between the two
works include things like tax design in the show it mirrors more of an appearance of ii
more so than how he looked in the original game and patrick warburton being the only cast member
to reprise his voice role as locke from the video game to the show though attack and the power of
juju had a built-in fan base from the games it struggled to gain an audience and was eventually
cancelled it also has this certain stiffness to the 3d animation that made it feel sluggish a bit
incomplete overall dad uninteresting to look at if you will as for the video game side of things
the main two tac video games i personally played and enjoyed them although for some reason i do
have this mcdonald toy of dead juju so what's that really say about me with all the magic in
the show you'd think there would be some magical spark that clicks for the show but like i said
it feels incomplete there's flat textures and again that stiff animation it just never really
gave me a purpose to watch the next episode as a background noise sure it gets the job done but for
an investment there's plenty of other one-season shows that may deserve your attention more but hey
if you personally enjoy it then that's all that matters now in recent years thq nordic which was
basically the resurrection of the thq name after the bankruptcy thanks to embracer group acquiring
the trademark for the name thq and renaming one of their subsidiaries nordic games to thq
nordic they constantly over the past few years have been heavily invested in the back catalog
of properties from thq and have been making plenty more deals that have led them to work
on bringing back games like spongebob battle for bikini bottom the reason i bring this up
like i mentioned way earlier at the beginning of this video is that one of the games that they had
announced that they are looking into and possibly already working on is a remake and possible reboot
of the tac video games so who knows maybe the attack and the power of juju show comes back too
probably not but you know never say never i guess let me know how you feel about tak in the power of
juju did you like the games and not the show like myself or were you the opposite or did you like
or not like either of them tell me in the comments below thanks so much for hanging out with me today
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