TheDevilMyself's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[My pal]

Just Good Enough

Y'know, the graphics were what saved you in the end for me - you did a nice job drawing it all out - payed attention to the backgrounds and details - you really need to work on your animation and try to incorporate some Frame By Frame into it (especially for parts like shooting yourself in the head) and i think that the shooting himself in the had vs - shooting his alter ego guy should have been seperated more, maybe by tinting the imaginary part blue or brown or some other color (create a square of the appropriate color that covers the animation area then change it to a symbol and make it transparent)

i liked the story line, though i do wish there was more lip-synching - maybe him and his alter ego hallucinated dude can be talking to each other in the car or something - pretty good stuff altogether - keep it going!

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[Guess What? Teapot]

Don't listen to them -

This wasn't a waste of anyones time if they'd bother to watch the damn thing. It was really cool i thought - random and funny, yet still linear in an 'on crack' sort of way. So you wrote the teapot song? That's some funny shit - that's a crazy lookin' teapot, too... cap'n eart hahaha "cut your grass too short cuz its a form of pollution" haha stupid eco-mother fuckers!

So yes, you should be honored because this was a long flash and i didn't even stop early - i watched the whole damn thing. The sherlock holmes guy's mouth was done really well... and i felt that doing cleese like they did the shit in Monty Python showed that you put SOME thought into this, and i liked the preloader as well.

Psychadelic and violent.

A+++

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5SS-PsychoWiLL responds:

No, I did not write the Teapot Song. That's the w00t Tang Clan's song.

[Friendly Fire Demo]

DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!

You do realize that the sound cuts out after the intro, right? If you didn't know when you released it, ok, cool - mistake.

If you did - then you really really really need to continue with the sound - it's one of the main things that made the intro so entertaining. The rest looks pretty cool, but i stopped watching halfway through figuring i'd wait for a version with sound to watch it all.

In general - good stuff. Solid plotline - runs smooth - good sound (that is, when there IS sound ;-)

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Outsider-Animation responds:

If you think so well of it with all this potential then why did you give it a 3!?!

You do realize giving it a 3 is pretty much raping it's success! It's ripping off it's pants and raping it up the ass!

YES! We know there isnt any sound at the end because we havnt DONE any sound after the intro.

DEMO PEOPLE! DEMO!

[BannanaWire]

Slow.

Your animation was too slow. Especially the blablabla industries logo part - agonizing!!!

The lipsynching was so off, he could have been having an orgasm and we'd never know.

Bananas are dead. get over it.

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Byrd-Industries responds:

It wasn't lypsynching, it was a moving mouth. I din't actually try to synch it. It would have been less random.

[Stalker :O]

hahaha

that's like my flash (go watch it) very very similar, but yours was prettier most definately! Good stuff. No doubt it'll be saved.

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[The Ice Cream Adventure]

One thing that saves this...

"Hey Mom..."

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT!??"

hahahha great great... could talk a little faster though for most of the dialogue, and record some silence so you can fill in the gaps between sound clips. Also, try drawing in the seams, like when he's waving, draw the arm at the joint so it doesn't look like his arm is a popsicle stick puppet, k?

Funny, but a tad slow at times. Could benefit also from learning how to set up a sound recording area (i.e. soundproofing) and from other guest voices and possibly even some original music as well!

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dustyh responds:

Thanks for the good review.

[Agressive dream]

A simple obervation:

I noticed that some of the occurences in your flash were a little slow....... the one that stands out most in my mind was the throwing of the paper ball. It travelled a little too slow in the air to successfully simulate... well... what it was.

Also at the beginning alot of the movement was very... ah... languid (lacking energy or vitality)

Yep. That's about that, though - very fun little animation! Very nicely done.

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Marwo responds:

hmm, ok..

Thank you! I will chew on this to my next flash movie!:)

[High Above The Mucky Muck]

Mucky-Muck

The lip-synching, for the most part, wasn't as bad as you pretend it to be. i think the shame in it is the mouths that wander... they're too erratic and without the characters moving as well, i... it... it just doesn't work. except with "YEAH!"... that works... other than that... no...

Otherwise, it was a really good flash, and it made a bad song semi-decent. Congrats!

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[The MilkShake Incident 05]

Man... where is this kid?

I SAVED IT! Congratulations, yours is the first movie i personally saved! Ooo i feel special now...

Anyways.

The guy before me had a point when it comes to repetition... instead of using the same sound sample for "Man where is this kid?" switch it up a bit... i could see him saying, once, "Man............... where is this kid" and then the other guys like "SHUT UP!" And it would be funnier if he did kick him in the balls, or at least attempt to.

The whole thing was a little slow really... don't forget that when you're trying to make a funny movie, keeping the audiences attention is the important part. Think of a Mel Brooks film; it has funny shit every single second. Mel knows the audience isn't going to get it all, but if he has them laughing again before they stop completely from the last time, then he's done his job (and so he has)

This seems like it's based on a true story (maybe you wrote it in your description, i wouldn't know - i never read those the whole way through) but that doesn't mean you can't embellish a bit ("It's the principal of the thing..." haha) to get a few more laughs out of us.

Oh, and graphically it was pretty good, except i think you should bother with some shading and really work on those eyes... they're creepy looking.

In the end, i gave this movie a 4 because of the song at the end. Anyone who writes a song with LYRICS for a flash rocks in my book - i'd like to see other flashes from you all in the future!

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[RED SYMBOL]

Could use a couple of things...

that ended pretty abruptly... i think you should really compile the whole thing when you get it finished instead of making it a series of shorts.

Other than that, i couldn't hardly read the text, it's too damn small - took me a couple of seconds to even realize it was THERE! My suggestion is to make the text centered on the bottom part of the flash, bigger and emboldened to ensure that the people are reading it.

other than that, i liked your blocky black white & red style - looking forward to seeing the next installment!

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