This egregiously bad cartoon posits a universe in which a race of upright, vaguely simian creatures have mastered interplanetary travel. The title character (voiced by Jace Norman) is a gauche teenager mad keen on adventure who has been living on a remote garbage asteroid with only a vixen skilled in martial arts and a nerdy tusked boar for company, along with a babysitter robot named called Bananny (Susan Sarandon). However, it seems that Spark is not just some lowly nobody, but the son of a great warrior who was murdered, like Hamlet’s father, by his own brother, the tyrant Zhong (Alan C Peterson), who then imprisoned Spark’s mother (Hilary Swank) in their palace on home planet Bana. Now Spark hopes to join the resistance, overthrow his evil uncle, and so on, blah blah blah. If theories about the multiverse prove to be correct, surely there is a species of monkey somewhere far, far away who are all banging randomly on typewriters and yet have managed, somehow, to come up with a better script than this derivative piece of space junk.
