ARCHIE AND THE RIVERDALE VAMPIRES accurately captures the look of the comic book characters, and the animation is generally polished. The voices are a bit bland, unfortunately, with no voice having the memorable charm of, say,
Scooby-Doo's Shaggy. Still, the show manages to stay true to the world of Archie, while adding the new wrinkle of marauding monsters. There's enough verbal humor to entertain older viewers, but overall this video is best suited to Archie fans.
The potato segment is a ludicrous reworking of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and provides some amusing satire. The vampire story offers fewer moments of cartoonish absurdity. The idea of having the frivolous Veronica believing that she's the "chosen one" -- the only one who can save Riverdale from bloodthirsty vampires -- is fun, but the plotting is too straightforward and serious for it to be effective. Characters continually have to explain what's going on, leading to such awkward lines as a vampire stating, "I wasn't being blasted into mist. I was actually escaping as a mist."