Larva Island TV Review

This Larva spin-off delivers a more aesthetically pleasing setting for its main characters' antics than their original gutter home, but the gist is the same: potty humor, cartoon violence, and a whole lot of absurd silliness. Stories center on mundane tasks like watching a human eat his lunch and retrieving a lost item, putting Red and Yellow in ridiculous predicaments that result in loud outbursts (no words again, just grunts and other noises), temper tantrums, and physical peril. Because they're so small, most other beings are significantly larger and stronger than they are, so they face a near-constant threat of demise.

Larva Island is a veritable grab bag of content that's mostly unpredictable. There's always appeal in seeing the world from a new angle, and the vantage point of bug larva -- where tiny shells are protective helmets and the average sea bird is a giant predator -- is no exception. But the show's persistent use of bathroom humor and excessive slapstick exchanges wear after a while, especially considering there's not much substance to the content to offset it. Tweens and older viewers can see the show for the eye candy that it is, but younger viewers may get a different impression of the characters' consequence-free thumpings of each other.