9.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Adventure Time (2010)
Adventure Time (2010)
Overview
Unlikely heroes Finn and Jake are buddies who traverse the mystical Land of Ooo. The best of friends, our heroes always find themselves in the middle of escapades. Finn and Jake depend on each other through thick and thin.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Buddhism: Positive
Viewer Rating
9.0
Overview
Unlikely heroes Finn and Jake are buddies who traverse the mystical Land of Ooo. The best of friends, our heroes always find themselves in the middle of escapades. Finn and Jake depend on each other through thick and thin.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Adventure Time explores a vast array of humanistic and philosophical themes, including personal growth, empathy, and the consequences of power, without consistently promoting a specific political ideology. Its narrative consciously balances various perspectives and focuses on universal experiences, leading to a neutral rating.
Adventure Time presents a diverse array of fantastical characters, with its world-building inherently incorporating various species and forms of identity. The narrative explores complex themes and relationships without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes overtly central to its primary conflict.
Secondary
Adventure Time positively portrays LGBTQ+ themes primarily through the evolving romantic relationship between Princess Bubblegum and Marceline. Their bond is depicted with depth and complexity, culminating in an explicit affirmation of their love in the series finale. The show presents their relationship as a natural and valued part of their identities and the narrative.
The show frequently explores themes of reincarnation, impermanence, interconnectedness, and the cycle of suffering and enlightenment, which deeply resonate with Buddhist philosophy. These concepts are woven into the narrative's fabric, often guiding character development and offering profound insights without satirizing or demeaning them.
Adventure Time does not feature explicitly identifiable transsexual characters or themes. While the show explores gender fluidity and non-binary identities through characters like BMO, and presents gender-swapped alternate realities, it does not depict characters whose narrative or identity is specifically framed as transsexual.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Adventure Time is an original animated series. While it features alternate universe characters who are gender-swapped versions of the main cast (e.g., Fionna and Cake), these are presented as new, distinct characters within the show's narrative, not as re-castings of pre-established characters from prior canon or history.
Adventure Time is an original animated series where its characters were first established. There is no prior source material or historical basis from which a character's race could have been canonically altered.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.6
8.5
Critic Ratings
10.0
N/A
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