Doctor Who - The Infinite Quest

UK 2007
produced by
Ross Attille, James Goss, Mark Gossey (executive), Russell T. Davies (executive), Julie Gardner (executive) for BBC/CBBC
directed by Gary Russell
starring the voices of David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Anthony Head (as Anthony Stewart Head), Toby Longworth, Liza Tarbuck, Tom Farrelly, Lizzie Hopley, Paul Clayton, Steve Meo, Barney Harwood, Stephen Greif, Dan Morgan
written by Alan Barnes, animation by Firestep, music by Murray Gold

tv-show, animation
Doctor Who, Doctor Who (David Tennant), Martha Jones

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Doctor Who (voiced by David Tennant) and Martha (Freema Agyeman) have just defeated evil Balthazar (Anthony Stewart Head) when they learn about his latest evil plan from his robot bird Caw (Toby Longworth): To find the three datachips leading to the Infinite, a legendary lost spaceship which is said to fulfill anyone's heart's desire - which of course could make Balthazar the most powerful being in the world.

So the Doctor and Martha find chip number one with Captain Kaliko (Liza Tarbuck), a futuristic pirate who attacks futuristic, walking oil rigs in the desert, chip number two with an armsdealer (Paul Clayton) who is also a lizard and who wants to earn himself a fortune by provoking war between giant insects and humans at an earth colony - with the insects being his customers - and chip number three with Gourney Stephen Greif), a prison gouvernor who is actually a former inmate having gained control of the prison ...

However, someone is always close behind the Doctor and Martha and kills off those who had the chips - and this someone is no other than Balthazar who has used Caw to make the Doctor look for the chips (which the Doctor is of course more capable to than anyone else) and now he wants to use the Doctor's time-and-space-machine the TARDIS to get to the Infinite. And once the Doctor has set the coordinates, he doesn't need him anymore and throws him out, leaving Martha alone with the villain.

Soon enough, Martha and Balthazar have reached the Infinite and her heart's desire is fulfilled when she gets to kiss the Doctor and his when he finds tons of gold - but actually the Infinite shows only illusions and soon enough the Doctor (the real one, Martha's Doc was just an imagination) arrives riding through the galaxy on Caw, and he ultimately destroys the Infinite and takes Balthazar prisoner ...

The first fully animated adventure of Doctor Who ... and it's quite a disappointment: Sure, there are some nice ideas in this one like the walking oilrigs or the insects' city of dung, which would be on too large a scale for the live action series, but on the other hand, the character animation is way off, and the characters themselves lack to show any emotions at all. And on a story level, the whole thing is very naive and a tad too straighforward while at the same time being highly reminiscent of the show's Key To Time-storyarc from almost 30 years ago, without giving the individual segments (some of which are quite interesting) any chance to properly develop. Rather a pity, this could have been more.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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