Review: Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur “The Great Beyond-er!; Suit Up!”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

After getting stuck dimensions away from the last season’s battle, Lunella has to team up with her on and off nemesis The Beyonder to get home. Later, Lunella tries repressing the trauma from the event while she works with her grandma’s team to make a new costume.

OUR TAKE

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur returns for its second (and hopefully not last) season after the first made a major splash last year. And apparently this season will be even longer than the first with twenty four episodes. But this premiere is pretty much just focused on picking the pieces up from the season finale, in which Moon Girl Lunella Lafayette learned that her eccentric grandmother was actually the FIRST Moon Girl (or rather used that code name in her research for an evil corporation, not as an actual superhero as implied). They teamed up to defeat a former colleague of hers but ended up opening a portal to another dimension and needing to close it on both sides, an ending that would get used for The Marvels to the result of major box office disappointment. Thankfully this show doesn’t have to worry about that, but Lunella does end up working with interdimensional trickster The Beyonder for awhile…who ends up losing his powers for whatever reason, but gives HER a chance to remind both him and the audience that not having powers doesn’t mean you can’t do the impossible, which teaches the Q-like being to believe in himself again.

Unfortunately, they also run into a new enemy, Molecule Man, a strange being with a grudge against Beyonder who utterly wipes the floor with Moon Girl, traumatizing her something fierce and leaving her at a loss when she finally makes it home. This leads into the next episode, which further explores her grandmother’s past as a super scientist and shows how trying to prepare for everything sometimes means nothing gets done and nothing moves forward. After speeding through the first season, it quickly became clear that each episode was packed with both thrilling animation and wholesome lessons, which these two episodes easily highlight in their approach, while also showing that things have now definitely escalated for the characters. The first season mainly dealt with threats that were humans or made by humans, with the Beyonder being the only major potential problem beyond that. Now that Lunella has seen beyond the cosmic veil, more cosmic enemies are going to come after her and her kin. Good thing she has a giant dinosaur, a genius level intellect, and a group of amazing friends and family behind her. Oh, and also a new look that might start appearing in the next intro sequence. Hopefully we get to cover this show again, but if we don’t, GO AND WATCH IT ALL RIGHT NOW.