Very strange yet very amusing and entertaining animated comedy seems a little more fitted for the MTV network. This very clever series finds trouble-making alien ZIM being sent to a "secret mission" on a "secret planet" simply because his superiors can't stand him and want to get rid of him. They give him a defective robot slave from the trash and tell him to be on his way, hoping that he'll get lost looking for the "secret planet". Six months later, ZIM comes across the planet Earth and thinks that this is were he is supposed to be, so he decides to blend in and learn about the humans so that he can bring doom to their planet. Dib, one of ZIM's classmates from skool(that's how they spell "school"), is an alien fanatic who knows ZIM is an alien. Unlike Elliot in "E.T.", Dib doesn't want to hide ZIM amongst his stuffed animals, he wants to make an alien autopsy video out of ZIM. The jokes and gags fly at fast pace and the animation and humor play like something Tim Burton would do if he worked on an animated TV series. This is a smart and hilarious cartoon that isn't just for kids and deserves a place next to other animated fare such as "Daria" and "The Simpsons".
Review of Invader ZIM
