Courage the Cowardly Dog

1999

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  • 1
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8.3| 0h30m| TV-Y7| en| More Info
Released: 12 November 1999 Ended
Producted By: Stretch Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/courage/games/index.html
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The bizarre misadventures of a cowardly dog named Courage and his elderly owners in a farmhouse in Nowhere, Kansas.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Konterr Brilliant and touching
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
super marauder The plot; an elderly farm couple lives in the middle of Nowhere where spooky things happens. It's up to Courage to save the day! I started watching this with my kids. Now they are grown, I still love it! Now I watch it with my granddaughter.Apparently John Dillworth must have grown up on the Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits because the stories remind me somewhat of those classics. Add the wild takes of the king of cartoons Tex Avery and BINGO! A funny cartoon that can be enjoyed by young and old. But yet at the same time could be a safe scare for little kids.Where Scooby-Doo started out good but got watered down over the years, Courage didn't seem get dummied down. Like the Twilight Zone it could be scary, make you laugh, or even make you cry a little.If you are 4, 40, or 80 you can enjoy this show because it is entertaining for all ages!
Piccolo_King I look back on Courage the Cowardly Dog and it's hard to question its uniqueness and boldness. In terms of content and presentation some shows simply have no equal and "Courage" is one of them. Horror comedy per se is a slightly tricky genre; it can be trickier still when catered primarily to a juvenile audience. But all this didn't stifle its creators as they stealthily ventured into thematic territories few of their contemporaries would dare, intermixing horror with comedy, comedy with horror, and every once in a while producing something that's nerve-jangling horror by any standard.The opening intro sums up the premise quite well so I needn't go too much into the details. Courage is a timid, petrified canine who finds a home in the middle of Nowhere when he's adopted by Muriel to the dismay of her grouchy farmer-husband, Eustace. What follows is a chain of horrifying misadventures as Nowhere is anything but an ordinary town: it's a stygian barren land. Fortitude isn't the absence of fear but taking action despite its presence and Courage demonstrates that time and again in every episode by coming to the rescue of his new owners (even though Eustace abhors him).Eustace's bumbling personality does allow for moments of comic relief but be warned, this is still a dark, dark show. Infidelity, prostitution, exorcisms, satanic curses etc. hardly qualify as the kind of stuff you'd expect to notice in children's television programming but it's all there -- well disguised, covert, hidden behind opaque curtains but still there. The effective technique of integrating CGI with traditional animation adds considerably to the show's dreamlike, disorientating aura. You, the viewer, become one with CtCD's supernatural landscape which makes for an impossibly engaging viewing experience. The soundtrack does a wonderful job augmenting the tonal sensibility of the story, mirroring the characters' momentary thoughts, (panic, peace, disbelief, awe, horror) and transplanting energy to the ambient scenery. The soundtracks of the episodes "The Great Fusilli", "King Ramses' Curse", and "Windmill Vandals" sound like the sort of music devotees would play while performing macabre rituals before the devil himself. Perhaps the technical adroitness and the mature subtext are the reasons John Dilworth's magnum opus still lingers in my memory deep into adulthood when so many other cartoons have faded into oblivion or simply don't hold up.On a concluding note, I'd say Courage the Cowardly Dog is a timeless gem. Instructive but never overbearing; chilling but always heart-warming. :)
MartinHafer I guess I have an excuse to watch cartoons like "Courage", as I have kids...at least that's what I tell myself. Years ago, I used to watch this show with my girls but recently my youngest said she wanted to see the DVDs of Season One (the only one now available for Region 1), so we sat down to watch them together.My first reaction was to laugh--after all, Eustace (Courage's owner) was hilariously mean. I am sure some parents would be turned off by him since he is cruel, greedy and just plain nasty--but I liked this about the show. I also loved the crazy animation and ridiculously bizarre characters. However, after watching all the episodes, I also noticed that the show was essentially the same each and every time (with very, very few exceptions). Courage readily recognizes some supernatural danger and his idiot owners are oblivious. After a few shows, I just began to get a bit bored--and don't really mind that there is only one season available. On the other hand, my 16 year-old adored walking down memory lane and sure would like to see more--and she thinks kids will look past this sameness.
jake-law123 Every episode of this show includes some of the most f****d up s**t i've ever seen in my life, but it still holds out as one of my favorite childhood shows of all time. No one freaks out and screams as much as Courage does. And every time I hear him scream, I feel, man, what now.Courage is a dog whose owners named Eustace and Muriel constantly get kidnapped, trapped, or held hostage by supernatural beings, from "weremoles', to zombies, ghosts, and the abominable snowman, in which he must rescue them. The villains get weirder and weirder in the show, as they start ranging from walking/talking bananas, to outer space chickens, to gigantic space robots, and talking mystical trees. Nothing competes with this show in terms of weirdness.Muriel, although dumb, is nice and never feels anything goes wrong, which makes it harder for Courage. Eustace, her wife, is grumpy, selfish, and bratty, and his main line in the whole show is "stupid dog".Although quite weird, it makes the show all the more enjoyable to watch. Its just entertaining to see how much more weird things can get in each episode, and you will be left in so much shock to the weirdness of it all the way through.In conclusion, one of the best shows ever, not to mention one of the weirdest. If you haven't checked it out yet, its definitely worth it.

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