Review: SuperMansion ‘Lex’
Spoilers Below:
Titanium Rex got the surprise of his life when his illegitimate daughter, amateur superhero Lex Lightning, showed up at his front door. Being quite attractive, she immediately received the attention of the boys, and the wrath of Cooch.
Rex attempted to be a good father, but soon got spooked and left her stranded on a mountain top, as all good Dads do. After realizing the error of his ways (and seeing the instant negative press), Rex decided to give it another shot, and offered to let Lex stay at the mansion. He then staged a battle between them and a villain for publicity, but Lex found out it was a farce, and was hurt by his insincere actions. Rex tried to apologize, but she left.
Meanwhile, Ranger, Brad, and Saturn started a band, Razr Dik, to impress Lex. However, they began to take it too seriously, even kicking Lex out of practice in order to focus. They finally recorded a decent song after her departure inspired them – but it flopped.
Rex then received a call from a dinosaur villain (also named Titanium Rex) who informed him that he kidnapped Lex and will only hand her over if Rex hands over the rights to his name. Instead, the father-daughter team joined forces to defeat their foe and repair their damaged relationship.
In Case You Missed It:
1) Rex: “I still get plenty of groupies, you know. Some of them are pretty…ish.”
2) The current politically correct term for “retarded,” according to Black Saturn: “Adorkable.”
3) “Oh, crap! It’s her old man!”
4) Ranger referred to his spouse as his “antique wife.”
5) The band’s news headline stated: “Razr Dik Fails to Please.”
6) The news called Razr Dik’s “Black Rainbow” song “offensive on every level, especially to rainbows.”
We heard about it at Comic-Con, and now it’s finally here: Lex Lightning (Jillian Bell) has joined the cast of SuperMansion. Introduction episodes are always a bit tough, since a good amount of new info needs to be squeezed into the dialogue along with the usual jokes, but SM managed a relatively smooth transition. (See for yourself on Crackle here.)
Sure, there were a lot of feels being thrown around – specifically with the internal crisis taking place inside Rex’s head – but it was nice to see Titanium get a little extra screen time for the first episode in a few weeks. SuperMansion is a character-based show with a large cast, but Rex is still the star.
Speaking of the others, though, the band side story was quite amusing. It’s generally humorous to see characters get so carried away with something that they forget to focus on the original goal. And this one got so out of hand, it was difficult to remember that the whole point of a band was to impress Lex. Also, the guys lusting after Lex while avoiding her father, who also happens to be their friend, was very entertaining.
Additionally, last week I said I wasn’t a huge fan of Cooch and thus didn’t enjoy the Cooch-centric plotline as much as others might, so it was nice that the show balanced itself out by limiting her lines. Not only because she wasn’t in the spotlight, but also because it made the lines she did have that much funnier.
In the end, this episode wasn’t as off-the-wall as some of the others, so I can’t say I enjoyed it as much as the others, but it still did a good job introducing a new character and giving a little bit of variety to the series. Emotional(-ish) episodes don’t always play well with animated shows, but when they do, it shows the amount of depth of which the series is capable.
We’re now halfway through the first season of SuperMansion, and it’ll be interesting to see how else the show can flex it’s big, bulging, superhero muscles.
