Ultimate Spider-Man Freaky Review

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode 10 was given the title of Freaky. In this episode, thanks to the plans of Mesmero, Spider-Man and Wolverine swap minds, thus leading to some wacky misadventures as they have to live a day in their shoes. Ultimate Spider-Man Episode 10 Freaky first aired on Disney XD on June 17th 2012.

Ultimate Spider-Man Episode 10 Freaky Review

The following review will contain spoilers for Ultimate Spider-Man Episode 10 Freaky.

Episode Synopsis

Mesmero uses his mind control powers for criminal purposes, but Spider-Man shows up. He turns the enslaved citizens of New York on Spider-Man, but Wolverine shows up. The mutant accuses Spider-Man of being the one behind this and Mesmero sicks the humans on Wolverine as well. Wolverine manages to convince Mesmero to break his mind control on them and Mesmero appears to be hauled off into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.

Yet Mesmero decides to get the last laugh by swapping Spider-Man and Wolverine's minds right with them. Neither are quite frankly happy with the development as it leads to some misadventures involving them. The situation spirals out of control where Sabretooth shows right up and tries to kill Wolverine, as Peter is in his body.

Eventually despite the situation and all of the hijinx that ensue, Spider-Man and Wolverine manage to team up to defeat Sabretooth. Then back at S.H.I.E.L.D, Mesmero is convinced to undo the mindswap. Wolverine tells Spider-Man he doesn't know how good he got it and decides to help himself for a S.H.I.E.L.D transport vehicle. Meanwhile, Spider-Man doesn't have as easy of the way off of the helicarrier, going down the hard way due to Wolverine using up all of his webbing.

Episode Review

"I like myself a redhead". Lines that I can't believe they got away with in animation that was admitted to be, you know, for kids. And don't think about all of the potentially, um, wrong implications about that line, that Wolverine directed towards Mary Jane when he was in Peter's body too much or...yeah.

Now this episode, much like the entire show, tends to run rather hot and cold a lot of the time with me. Some of the gags are worthy of a courtesy chuckle and a few of them work rather well for a laugh. Providing they are not overdone. The first technical difficulties gag, kind of funny. By the end of the show when they've done it five times, not so much.

There is such a thing as quitting while you're ahead.

Wolverine is Wolverine and obviously he is going to be characterized at his most base form in this cartoon. I did chuckle at the "One Web to Live" gag, especially Doctor Doom's inexplicable cameo. And unless my eyes were deceiving me, there was a small Deadpool cameo on one of the magazine covers. It was a blink and you miss it moment.

Am I still a bit too soft on this show? Likely, but I think that it does help that I went into this not expecting quality that I knew that I was not going to get from Ultimate Spider-Man. Granted, I'd be thrilled if they had cut back on some of the problem areas, like the overused gags, but really compared to a lot of things that passes for "entertainment", it can work to an extent. It's better than a lot of reality shows that pander to the lowest common denominator.

Yeah, faint praise I know.

Final Thoughts and Ratings

6/10 rating for this one, had its moments but had its down points as well. You can watch Ultimate Spider-Man Episode 10 Freaky if you have Disney XD On Demand.