Ultimate Spider-Man Snow Day Review

The latest episode of Ultimate Spider-Man aired on August 5th 2012. The episode of Ultimate Spider-Man was entitled Snow Day. Spider-Man and his team blow off Coulson's SHIELD training. They go to a tropical island but get attacked by Flint Marko, better known as Sandman. It is going to take every bit of their cunning to deal with this situation.

The following is a review of Ultimate Spider-Man Episode 17 Snow Day. This episode aired on Disney XD as part of the Marvel Animated Block.

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode 17 Snow Day Review.

Well this is just an interesting episode to say the very least. Peter is woken up out of a tired sleep by Nova, so he stumbles and bumbles right out the door. Spider-Man walked right into that, a snow ball attack by his team. Coulson will use this snow day to give them some training. Of course, given most of the members of this team have short attention spans, they do not really feel into this.

Nova has an idea. A really classy place as it turns out. A beach made completely of sand. Well what could go wrong right there?

This is one of those beach episodes, so potential fan service time. It was bound to happen after all. The looming Sand figure is in the shadows.

Okay, as much as I get on this show about the weird trips into Peter's mind, Hulk limbo was inspired. The little bit featuring the Spidey Sense, tapping on Peter's brain, funny the first time. It was funny, but as this show did, it overdoes.

Vollyball game, always a beach favorite by the team. Of course Peter is the one who gets the ball. And runs into a creepy little kid named Sandy. The Spidey Sense visual, the one where the little Spidey tapped on Peter's brain, featured again. Now it is getting annoying. The little kid is rather creepy, and Nova is actually the one that point that out.

Perhaps he does have some brain their after all.

Sandy runs into the jungle and wanted to play hide and seek. The Ultimate Spider-Man team meets Flint, who obviously represents our villain before he got his powers and turned to crime. The clock was a rather interesting visual. Ruins appear magically right on the beach. Then Sandman begins to rock the beach.

Sandman's nuts and has multiple personality disorder, due to the fact that he can manifest different parts of personality onto his grains of sand. Nova's stupidity reaches it's newest levels, when he thought a vacation near Bermuda was a good idea.

You know, the Bermuda Triangle and all of that. White Tiger might annoy me, but she had a good point.

Sand bricks fly through the air and the old spikes in a room trick with Sand. Lots of Sand featured in this Ultimate Spider-Man episode. Sand is in the air after all.

The Sand Maze was a cool visual, and I'd figure Peter would be someone who would have trouble with mazes. Especially this Peter. God, Marvel Animation made Spidey such a ditz in this cartoon. Then Sandman appears in his full glory.

We get a Sweet Christmas from Power Man. That made me rather smile.

Figured this would be Nick Fury's fault, he was the one that drove Sandman right to this state of madness. He just threw him on a beach.

The team works together to defeat Sandman. However, they have sand right over them. Fury finds out about their little trip and is not happy. Sandman is in the jet and he fries it, to force it to land.

This is the second Jersey crack we've heard in a Marvel cartoon recently. The first being in one of the last episodes of Iron Man Armored Adventures. Just putting that out right about now for future reference.

They manage to keep Sandman from reaching the main land. Then Nova super charges Sandman, so he breaks into glass. If silicon heats to glass, it breaks. Fury puts Sandman away in an hour glass and has the team decontaminated and scrubbed down, even if they did not need it.

Of course, it is amazing how many villains were made because Nick Fury liked to sweep problems under the rug.

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode 17 had some fun moments overall. Granted this cartoon seems to be all over the place and the team can be either annoying or one dimensional. Still, it's not a complete waste, 6/10.