I remember watching this show when I was a kid on Jetix and although it was long ago and I didn't watch many episodes, I had good memories. This year I decided re-watching it all and while it isn't bad it isn't perfect either...
The show is divided in 5 seasons, each with its own arc but each episode can be seen as an standalone story, even if they're connected (despite season 2 is full of filler episodes). Things I liked of this cartoon were the original ambience with all the elements of Chinese folklore, the main characters are pretty cool and most importantly, for most of the time the show is very entertaining. Personally my favorite seasons were the first and the third, which I consider equally good. Then season 2 because it had too much filler, and finally season 4 and 5 which are to be honest kinda bad. Or maybe I was saturated, it's almost 100 episodes! But except in the last part I enjoyed watching it.
Moving to the bad stuff, like I said before filler episodes and the last 2 seasons don't have very original or interesting plots and feel repetitive and uninspired. Also in the last 2 seasons the show becomes even more childish, at the begining it was a show for all ages but then I felt it was aimed exclusively at children. And the animation... Main character designs are fine, but the rest and specially the backgrounds are atrocious!!! And this is bad because it makes the show feel cheap. I don't mind that the backgrounds are simple, they're just very poorly drawn, so bad it's distracting.
To sum up, Jackie Chan Adventures it's a good cartoon to watch some episodes and remind good times from your childhood. Watching it all, it's in my opinion not worth the time. I just did it because of my stuborness, but objectively, there are many more cartoons (and shorter) who deserved being watched from begining to end than this one.
The show is divided in 5 seasons, each with its own arc but each episode can be seen as an standalone story, even if they're connected (despite season 2 is full of filler episodes). Things I liked of this cartoon were the original ambience with all the elements of Chinese folklore, the main characters are pretty cool and most importantly, for most of the time the show is very entertaining. Personally my favorite seasons were the first and the third, which I consider equally good. Then season 2 because it had too much filler, and finally season 4 and 5 which are to be honest kinda bad. Or maybe I was saturated, it's almost 100 episodes! But except in the last part I enjoyed watching it.
Moving to the bad stuff, like I said before filler episodes and the last 2 seasons don't have very original or interesting plots and feel repetitive and uninspired. Also in the last 2 seasons the show becomes even more childish, at the begining it was a show for all ages but then I felt it was aimed exclusively at children. And the animation... Main character designs are fine, but the rest and specially the backgrounds are atrocious!!! And this is bad because it makes the show feel cheap. I don't mind that the backgrounds are simple, they're just very poorly drawn, so bad it's distracting.
To sum up, Jackie Chan Adventures it's a good cartoon to watch some episodes and remind good times from your childhood. Watching it all, it's in my opinion not worth the time. I just did it because of my stuborness, but objectively, there are many more cartoons (and shorter) who deserved being watched from begining to end than this one.