Once a child prodigy?? Dr. Venture now fails as both a scientist and father. Luckily?? his twins?? Hank and Dean are too stupid to care. And they've got their vicious?? macho bodyguard?? Brock?? looking out for them. Together they'll get in all sorts of situations involving wild alligators?? street ruffians?? and booby traps. Brock really likes the booby traps.
]]>Amazon.comIf Jonny?? Haji?? Race Bannon?? and the rest of the Jonny Quest gang were idiots?? their animated adventures might play out like The Venture Bros.?? a consistently funny spoof on '60s adventure cartoons from the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming. The premise should be immediatel"nostalgic for any Saturday morning TV aficionado who grew up in the '60s and '70s: Dr. Venture (James Urbaniak from Henry Fool) is an inventor?? while sons Hank and Dean's insatiably curiosity lands them in hot water with supervillains?? robots?? magicians?? and the like. Brock Sampson (voiced by the very funny Patrick Warburton of The Tick) is the good doctor's right-hand man?? who rescues the boys with good old-fashioned manpower. The twist in The Venture Bros. is that every single character?? down to the supervillains' henchmen?? are complete and utter dolts?? and their adventures are inspired more by foolishness?? personal obsessions (for Brock?? it's sex and violence?? and for Dr. V?? it's diet pills and a daddy fixation)?? or just plain cosmic weirdness than any sense of post-Kennedy-era adventure and derring-do. The result is subversive and occasionally shocking insanity (Dr. V loses his kidneys in the series opener "ngerous"; Dean