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Super Giant Robot Brothers

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Emily Tsiao

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Forged by super science, mighty metal saves the day in Super Giant Robot Brothers.

Two-hundred days ago, Dr. Magita Rose and Dr. Arturo Rose disappeared into a “strange, looming, cosmic anomaly” that Earthlings are calling the “Optical Rheometric Tactilis,” or O.R.T. for short. Most of us might recognize it as a wormhole to places or dimensions unknown.

Before their disappearance, the Drs. Rose predicted (correctly) that giant aliens dubbed “Kaiju” would come through the wormhole and attack Earth.

Now, their daughter, Dr. Alex Rose, is Earth’s best hope for survival. She’s a genius scientist just like her parents, with 14 PhDs, 32 Master’s degrees and 112 Associate’s degrees under her belt. She’s revered by every brilliant mind on the planet.

So what if she’s only 3?

Danger, Alex Rose

Alex’s solution to giant aliens? Giant robots. Only her first attempt doesn’t go so great.

The X-90, or “Shiny” as Alex dubs him, defeats a lizard-like alien that comes through the wormhole, sure. But then he defies orders to return to the Extreme Defense Force command center and flies into the O.R.T., determined that he can save little Alex from heartbreak if he can find her parents.

Instead of finding Alex’s parents, Shiny is transported 10 years into the future.

Earth is still there—so is Alex and the Extreme Defense Force—but the aliens are getting stronger and smarter with every battle. And Shiny has been replaced by another Rose-designed robot, the X-K22 or “Thunder.”

But Shiny isn’t to be deterred. He’s still convinced he can save Earth (and Alex) by defeating the Kaiju and rescuing the Rose parents.

Unfortunately, the robot’s crazy fight tactics (no doubt because they were designed by a toddler) clash with his brother’s, and Shiny and Thunder spend their first alien battle fighting each other instead of the Kaiju.

Luckily, there was something to Alex’s 3-year-old genius (even if she can’t quite remember what it was) since Shiny’s erratic weapons array (he literally uses the power of rainbow light to attack the monster) manages to defeat the Kaiju—you know, once he stopped trying to show up his “little” brother.

Perhaps between the three of them, Alex, Shiny and Thunder can stop the Kaiju once and for all (and maybe even save Alex’s parents).

Super Giant Robot Family

Super Giant Robot Brothers has two family aspects: that of two squabbling siblings and that of an orphaned child.

Shiny and Thunder don’t get along at first, but when they set aside their differences and focus on battling baddies, they find a way to defeat the ever-increasingly strong Kaiju. (And despite Shiny’s desperation to prove himself to the Extreme Defense Force and Alex, when Thunder is threatened by an alien, he defends his brother in a “nobody messes with my sibling but me” manner.)

Alex, for her part, is pretty sure her parents couldn’t have survived their trip through the O.R.T. And she’s made her peace with that—or so she says. But some part of her 3-year-old brain must have believed otherwise, or else Shiny’s programming wouldn’t have sent him through the wormhole to begin with.

Super Giant Robot Brothers is all animated, and it isn’t exactly bloody. But Shiny defeats his first alien by tossing it up into the air and letting it fall splat on the ground, where its green guts splatter like a squished bug. The aliens themselves kill quite a bit as well. A news anchor and his pilot are presumably killed when an alien swats their helicopter from the sky (and we see the cameraman fly out of the open door while the vehicle is still falling). Another news anchor is reduced to a skeleton when a Kaiju vomits acid onto him. And then there’s the mass destruction and chaos that ensues when Godzilla-sized creatures (and robots) smash their way through cities.

These family and violence aspects will certainly be something families should consider before watching.

Episode Reviews

Aug. 4, 2022 – S1, Ep1: “Gone and Back Again”

A 3-year-old Alex debuts her first robot, Shiny, to protect Earth from incoming aliens. But just after his first victory, Shiny pops 10 years into the future by traveling through a wormhole, where he meets a slightly older Alex and his new “little” brother, Thunder.

Aliens destroy cities by stomping around. A helicopter crew is presumably killed after a lizard-like alien swats it from the sky and it crashes into a building (we see one man get sucked out of the helicopter while it’s still falling). A news anchor is reduced to a skeleton after getting hit with acid vomit by another alien. We hear that Alex’s parents were likely vaporized by the O.R.T.

Shiny and Thunder use their robotic powers and weapons to fight aliens. One splatters its guts everywhere when Shiny throws it high into the air and lets it fall to its death. Another is vaporized by Shiny and Thunder’s weapons. The robots cause a little bit of destruction themselves with their size. Shiny accidentally knocks two workers off a bridge but catches them just in time. He also threatens to squish some soldiers operating tanks when they annoy him.

There are a few fat jokes. Shiny consistently disobeys orders. Someone says, “Holy cow.”

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Emily Tsiao

Emily studied film and writing when she was in college. And when she isn’t being way too competitive while playing board games, she enjoys food, sleep, and geeking out with her husband indulging in their “nerdoms,” which is the collective fan cultures of everything they love, such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate and Lord of the Rings.

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