The episode is about Ben wanting to get a pet, but his allergies to most common house pets prevents him from doing that. However, he stumbles upon a weird hybrid between a cat, dog and a rabbit, the Catdobbit. Now Ben has to hide his new friend from Grandpa Max and Gwen, but is the animal all it seems to be?
So apparently Ben is allergic to most household pets, like dogs and cats. I guess the reboot is lucky that it didn't show Ben interacting with these animals before or else they'd mess with the character. Max then says even if Ben get over his allergies, he hasn't shown that he's responsible enough to take care of a pet. Fair point, as he was shown to be preeeeeety immature throughout the series thus far.
Ben then storms off as Four Arms, so he can throw pebbles into the water to relieve stress. Or in his case, throw a boulder across the water and over a mountain. Guess strength increases with stress.
And then we see Dr. Animo coming out from behind his cardboard humans. How the humans were able to walk around in what appears to be in three dimension, don't ask me. Point is, he created the Catdobbit and is controlling it to tag along with Ben.
Ben tries to hide Catdobbit in the Rustbucket, the animal being a bit larger than the last time we saw him. We then see some gags featuring Gwen and Max being oblivious to the weird bumps and sounds Ben is making, a joke that has been done a bunch of times before, but I suppose they pull it off well.
Now they are at a diner, with Ben telling Catdobbit to wait behind. Ben tries to talk Max into keeping a pet but fails, while trying to hide Catdobbit, who is now a huge monster, from Gwen and Max. The huge monster pet bashes into the diner, with Max and Gwen trying to keep it still while telling Ben to transform into someone strong.
If you can't tell by now the moral for this episode is responsibility, which Ben tries to reinforce by going Grey Matter instead of a traditional punching alien. You know, brains over brawn. Ben probably thought about pinching its nerves and making it pass out, if not, then I guess he just randomly turns into Grey Matter against a huge and dangerous mutant.
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| Bullfrag got nothing on this buff frog |
...Until the Omnitrix turns him into Omni-Enhanced Grey Matter which is more suited for combat, way to go Ben, you could had just gone for Wildvine or Four Arms and it would still be same. You didn't do anything smart besides removing a mind control device.
After that pretty cool transformation sequence, we get a really great fight between Catdobbit and Omni-Enhanced Grey Matter (try saying that five times fast). Omni-Enhanced Grey Matter demonstrates a good amount of his abilities, and able to get rid of the mind control collar, before transforming back to normal. The fight scene was fast and pretty fluid, with my only problem being the scene where Omni-Enhanced Grey Matter tried to hold the Catdobbit while moving his body forwards and backwards, which was repeated animation, pretty obvious one at that.
If there's another good thing the Ben 10 reboot is good at, is its color palettes. The color palette outside of the diner is really good, with a more yellow-ish color scheme here. The background and characters go well together while they duke it out. I hope they use this color scheme more in the future.
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| The best interpretation of Animo yet |
Overall, I enjoyed this episode a lot more compared to Out to Launch. With some good jokes, color palettes, a cool fight scene with Omni-Enhanced Grey Matter and Catdobbit, as well as a more on-model looking characters, this is one of the better Ben 10 reboot episodes. I give it an 8/10.
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