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Filmtracks Recommends:
Buy it... only if you are an enthusiast of the original Hanna-Barbera productions or the multitude of John Debney's 1990's adaptations of the genre. Avoid it... if you expect the action music in these two scores to match the more robust orchestral output later in Debney's career. Filmtracks Editorial Review:
Less famous, but equally tapped for spin-offs and sequels was the 1964 television series Jonny Quest. Also from Hanna-Barbera, this series only lasted through 1965 and featured two dozen episodes. It depicted a family of scientific and technological experts who, as a fighting force, would rescue people around the world and ward off the usual collection of villains. The 1990's would bring three television features that attempted, to varying levels of failure, to revive the cartoon. The first of these was Jonny's Golden Quest in 1993, which addressed the main character's missing mother for the first time. The problem for Hanna-Barbera Productions, though, was that by the mid-1990's, animation had progressed so far beyond the one-dimensional drawing technique carried over in these sequels that people were simply bored by them. And while John Debney once again attempted to beef up and modernize the sound of the franchise, as he had done capably with The Jetsons, his music for Jonny's Golden Quest wasn't quite as entertaining. A far more serious score, Jonny's Golden Quest used a greater variety of synthetic and solo accent instruments to represent the battles around the world. The representation for the evil Dr. Zin would reside in the low electronic ranges, offering false choral effects and deep, resonating bass appropriate for any supervillain. As with The Jetsons, Debney would roll with the style of high jazz for most of the heroic pieces. The original Hanna-Barbera title theme would be given large-scale treatment once again in the opening and closing cues, with a hint of Mission: Impossible throughout. The electronic nature of the rendering hinders the score in its large action sequences, such as "Destruction of Dr. Zin," and the drum pads specifically sound frightfully dated. The majority of the score is rooted, strangely enough, in the realm of cheap 80's sci-fi, placing the score at odds with most of Debney's other scores. At least 30 minutes of music from both The Jetsons and Jonny's Golden Quest would appear together on Debney's first official promotional CD released in 1996, and unless you're a significant fan of Debney's cartoon adaptation work, this duo is among the least appealing.
Jonny's Golden Quest: ** Overall: ***
* contains the "Jetsons Theme" by William Hanna, Joe Barbera, and Hoyt Curtain ** contains the "Jonny Quest Theme" by William Hanna, Joe Barbera, and Hoyt Curtain
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