The original series worked entirely because Dexter and Dee Dee were a great double act who played off each other so well.
For me, the biggest letdown was that Dee Dee is barely in the movie. Action isn't fun when you're defeating such lame bad guys. Dexter runs away from generic baddies, he fights the pretty wimpy Mandark at the end, and he smashes some robots who stand there waiting to be beaten. The creators put more effort into the action scenes, but even these are dull and forgettable. The tedious, talky writing was a gigantic misstep that bogs down the entire movie. I found myself skipping through scenes where the characters droned on and on and on, just wishing that they'd actually do something fun or interesting with the time travel gimmick. It's also a problem that a TON of dialogue goes to "young adult Dexter," whose voice is like nails on a chalkboard.
This could be OK if the dialogue was funny, but most of it just repeats points that we could already see onscreen, like the writers thought it was a radio play. The movie basically has 2 notes: occasional action scenes, and lots of long scenes where characters talk and talk and TALK and TALK. Mandark is the only other real character in the movie, and he's in "completely generic villain" mode with nothing remotely interesting about him. They took "time traveling boy genius on a quest to save the world" and made him the most boring character they possibly could. The interesting parts are all told in flashback, so most of the movie is Dexter passively wandering from one setting to the next, just looking at the situation and hearing some horribly tedious explanation about it. As an adventure, it's very disappointing. The plot is simple: Boy genius Dexter travels through time, teams up with 3 of his future selves (young adult Dexter, middle-aged Dexter, and elderly Dexter), and then they stop his rival Mandark from taking over the world.
This TV movie has stylish animation, and there was clearly ambition here, but the result is an awkwardly-paced, surprisingly dull film.
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