In 1989, Steven Spielberg was really trying to get into the animation game. He served as an executive film producer such as "An American Tail" by Don Blat and Robert Knatis "who frames Roger Rabbit", driving both of them to great success. He also set up his own studio for animation, amblimation, that year, hoping to continue his performance for making impressive, original and successful animated features. However, by 1989, Spielberg and Blatt suffered a relegation, and new projects did not come easily. As a result, the amblimation only once made three features: "American Tail: Fiel Goes West", "We are back! Dinosaur story" and "Balto".

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Spielberg has had better success on television, overseeing a new wave of animated shows that have engaged in a new generation of entertainment. In 1990 he saw the debut of Tiny Toon Adventures, the fourth series of comedy featuring a new collection of "Kid" colleagues of the well -known Warner Bros. characters. That play was popular enough to guarantee the creation of "Animani" in 1993, as well as A masterpiece that is "Fracazoid!" In 1996. Spielberg also oversaw the animated shows "Hysteria!" and "toonsilvania", as well as the primarily "family dog" series, and Berkeley breathed "TV Special County Bloom", a desire for wings working ". In terms of animation, Spielberg hit his step in the 90's. And he is still going; On "Gremini: Mogwai's Secrets".

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One of the most unusual pieces of Efemera in Spielberg's animated canon, however, is a TV series called "America Invasion", a show that aired on the WB for only 13 episodes in June and July 1998. "Invasion America", unlike the series listed above, was not a comedy; It was a very serious, firm, engaged scientific show for a teenager who reveals that he is half a foreign. Spielberg co-created the series with Harve Bennett, the executive producer behind "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", "Star Trek III: The Search for Spack" and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home".

The plot of "Invasion America" ​​was quite included. It is explained that foreign force from the planet Tyrus came to Earth in the 1980s, hoping to engage in peaceful contact. Unfortunately, there is a schism within the Tyrusians. The ruler of the planet, Kale-Osha (Lorenzo Lamas), wants to make peace with people, while his uncle, the wicked dragit (Tony Jayej), wants to conquer the earth. There is Fraki, a civil war, and the Kale-Okosha, along with his foreign friend Rafer (Edward Albert), must escape the earth. He disguises himself as a man and continues to be in a human being in a human woman named Rita (Kat Soci). They have a child together and name David.

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David (Mothers Kelly) grows in their teens not knowing that his father is alien. The show's action rises when Dragit returned to Earth to kill Kale once and for all, forcing David's true identity in the spotlight. The rest of the series follows David's adventures as he escapes Dragit's wicked Spies Spies and stimulates his previously unknown alien superpowers. (His abilities are reinforced and controlled by a glove accessory, called Exoter.) The show's tone was closer to the "X-Data" than anything else, presenting a version for children-friendly plot.

"Invasion America" ​​presented several important guest voice actors, including Christie McNeikol, Ronnie Cox and Jameses Siking. Leonard Nomoy also appeared as a villain named General Conrad, probably participating because he and Bennett collaborated on three Star Trek films. While the play was produced in 30-minute episodes, two episodes were aired simultaneously, presented in 60-minute blocks. The final of the series was similar to a three-episod, a 90-minute block.

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The series was not very well accepted. View in Los Angeles TimesWritten by Howard Rosenberg, claims that "Invasion America" ​​tried to cover up her thin plot and bad writing with welcoming visual. Indeed, the show took advantage of the then models of rarely for CGI TV (for spacecraft exteriors), and its show shows have clearly sought to do everything to look rich and satisfactory. Anita Gates, writing about Theuork TimesIt was equally impressed by the visual - "stylish to the point of Art Deco", she wrote - but also noted that "invasion America" ​​has no heart. Even in 1998, the fantasies "selected one" narratives were already immensely tired, as Gates pointed out. At least Ken Tucker's review for Entertainment Weekly was positive. He noticed, after Rotten tomatoesThat the show was "derivative", but that its visual complemented it.

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Unusual, two versions of "Invasion America" ​​were broadcast in different time slots during its running. The complete iteration moved to the WB, while shortened, less violent transferred to a children's sb. The series ended with one Charon saying it was "the end of the book One". It is complete that 13 episodes were presented as a single, an extended story bow, which at the time was unheard of in animation and was not common outside the soaps. It would not be by the mid-2000s, seasonal stories became De Rigeur. Unfortunately, there was no book two.

The "invasion of America" ​​cannot be blamed for lack of ambition. At that time it was very difficult, and even there were novels to tie. It was fatty and cozy and there were some of the most talented Hollywood Bigwigs working on it. However, the "invasion of America" ​​seems too known to catch, and came and went without much fanfare. Spielberg fell to the production of Animanis Spinf "Pink and Brain", while Bennett fell into his money "Time Trax". "Animaniacs" eventually revived While restarting "Tiny Toons". "Invasion America", on the other hand, stays asleep.

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