Review: Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero “The Princess Most Fair” / “Hail Larry”

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“The Princess Most Fair”

Penn, Sashi, and Boone get sent to a world where everything is a Disney musical and the guys are girls, and the girls are guys. Anyway, the trio have to get a crystal before Rippen does or else an innocent Princess is going to be turned to stone. Rippen comes to us as a Maleficient-esque character where as Larry becomes a mirror. Rippen get hold of the crystal and attempts to use it on the Princess, but Penn and crew are able to settle their differences, turn back Rippen’s minions, and save the Princess. Rippen is turned to stone, and the fat lady sings it.

Our Take

Of the two halves for this week’s episode of Penn-Zero, this one bored me to tears. The constant singing caused me to have a migraine, and is totally not indicative of a target audience. I also felt the gender swaps were largely unnecessary which, for the most part, was funny for like 2 minutes, then the migraine returned. Seriously, just skip past this one and watch ”Hail Larry”.

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 “Hail Larry”

Larry fills in for a sick Rippen in a world where he is a demonic overlord and the kids are I guess heroes of some kind but it isn’t quite clear. Anywho, they head to Larry’s cave, but Penn decides to take his time because Larry doesn’t seem like a big threat…except to his skeleton warriors. As a result, Penn begins motioning a rescue mission of Larry so he doesn’t get destroyed by the skeletons, but Larry ends up making progress to the point where he comes pretty close at being a full-time villain. Thankfully, Rippen shows up and stops the whole thing, thereby guaranteeing that he doesn’t have to serve Larry…ever.

Our Take

I love Larry, he’s by far my favorite character. He’s cute as hell, and I couldn’t help but hysterically laugh as he tried his best to do the evil laughing only for it to sound just as silly as when he normally laughs. The idea that Larry’s minions got so sick of him that they more or less wanted to usurp him was pretty awesome, and Penn was so enamored by this whole scene he could have made this a quick episode, but instead just went with the flow for the shits and giggles. A definite improvement over the first 12 minutes.

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This episode Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero is available now on the Watch Disney XD App or you can watch it tonight @ 7:30 pm ET/PT, only on Disney XD.