Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FunnySchoolThingsR Extras]

I don't think I'd seen the original cartoon. Eh, with the thousands of stuff I've reviewed, I probably did at one point. Anyway, it's great to see how much hard work and effort you took into this. I think this might be the only submission I've seen like this. It's kind of like a DVD of a movie. It manages to have everything except the actual movie. You have a nice speaking voice.

It was interesting to try to piece together what this story was about. The overall animation was decent. I also liked how you mentioned how long this was. Of course, it kind of changes with how long you might look at some things. It still managed to clock out at about nine minutes for me!

Aqlex responds:

I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed this submission even though it omitted the main cartoon! I decided to separate the Extras the the Original cartoon because together, they produced a fairly large file, and I thought that I might as well create a separate upload for it so that those that only wanted to watch the main cartoon wouldn't have to waste time loading and navigating through extra content. The DVD extras menu is exactly what I was trying to emulate here.

And yeah, the runtime is really only calculated from the sections that have some kind of runtime to them. All the menus and sections where you can spend time reading/looking are not used in the final calculation.

Anyway, I'm always happy to hear that someone enjoys these collections of extras. I put a lot of time into putting them together, and like to know somebody actually checks them out. Thanks for the review, Ericho!

[Madness: Pie]

I was disappointed that this didn't have any deaths in it. I was pleasantly surprised to see it had some at the end. You even managed to make some good use out of it with the bodies actually helping him. Granted, I doubt that would help you in real life. The animation seemed quite authentic to the Madness style. It's stuff like this that makes you realize why pie is so good.

Imagine what one of these guys would do for a cake? It was also nice to have the music playing the whole way through. It was cool how the last three attempts took place right after one another. I am glad you achieved success with this. Over 100,000 views is pretty good!

[New Year 2013]

Well, you gave us our first year's Daily Feature! You definitley deserved it. I really appreciate how there's so many crazy things going on. I just love seeing all of the characters that appeared in your other cartoons! Yeah, I couldn't recognize them all, but I could recognize some at least. It's great for you to make a New Year's cartoon.

I didn't stay up to celebrate it last night because I had to get up early to go to work. I'm going to have to get up even earlier starting next week with my job. Anyway, the animation was as good as ever. The best part was probably the guy with the poor green screen effect. I think he got better at the end, actually.

[Sonic vs Shadow]

I found this to be better than the first, but still not that good. It really helps that you have a background this time. It does still look rather amatuer with how the video loops. I'm not one to talk, I have no idea how to do that. It does matter that you've managed to improve with the sprites. It reminds me of "Super Mario Bros. Z".

And yes, that series is officially dead. The sounds were good and they synched up quite well. I liked the yellow punching and kicking effects. I liked the Mushroom Kingdom background. That makes sense as Mario was in the last one.

BuchonlxD responds:

I know I searched the sprites for months and they are in deviantart by a user his name is jmkrebs30 and the sounds I donwloaded the beta game from yoyo games (cancelled to) It still online but i getted the sounds from dbz sound pack and super mario bros z game fromo yoyo games

[: Life Is A Game :]

I thought this was actually quite well done. I admit that I was a little disappointed because the title made it sound like it was something more philosophical. I guess this works pretty well too. The funniest part was probably when Foamy mentioned picking on a disabled person. Someone on Newgrounds doesn't really have much reason to call out on this behavior. I get more accomplishments playing games here anyway.

I still can't seem to find Germaine that attractive. Then again, I don't think she's supposed to be...probably. If a headless guy was throwing pumpkins at me, I'd probably kill him too. Hey, you can kill turkeys in real life! Yeah, real life...with talking squirrels.

[Fleisch 001]

I found this to be very strange because so little happened in this. I thought it might be a game at first, but it was just a very short flash. The premise doesn't even make any sense. If you have a knife, wouldn't you cut yourself the other way to slash your wrists? I imagine this would probably do more damage however. The animation wasn't too good either.

In fact, I don't think this had any sound in it at all. Lacking sound is not something you want to do, because there are so many better things out there that use sound. It does not seem unique in any way as well. I could have sworn I've come across this title before, but never played it. I'm not going to kill myself.

[Man wanted a mustache]

While this didn't have much going for it, I still found it to be pretty entertaining. I think the main reason is because it had a lot of Spanish in it. Whenever I listen to something in Spanish, I get so disappointed because I can't remember anything from the classes I took. I actually understood some here! Then again, it was in captions. The animation isn't bad either.

I guess mustaches are just funny. I would suggest you having a bit more of a joke. It ended with the guy's mustache being stolen. I don't really get how that's supposed to be that funny. I still admire this for being in high spirits.

karlneudert responds:

is a random humor, hahaha thanks for the comment

[A Hellbenders Christmas]

It's too bad that you weren't able to get this done before Christmas. Anyway, this was an absolute fantastic cartoon! My favorite part is at the end where everyone throws rocks at Jesus. It's so funny to see the fat kid get hit by them too. Why was he only taking him? Well, imagine how angry the people would be if Jesus took two people away.

I love how Jesus has the same expression the entire time. Dang, these kids seriously have small faces! It was also funny at the beginning with how the guy's ear piece exploded. It seems me how awesome the title of this series is. I guess something known as "Hellbender's" wouldn't do too well with Jesus.

[Sonic Shadow Mario test]

I honestly didn't find this to be that bad. I think the best part of it was how the sprite work was actually decent. What did strike me as weird was how there was no background. You really do seem like you have some potential. This really does seem something right out of "Super Mario Bros. Z". BTW, Alvin-Earthworm has stated that he's ending that series.

I liked the explosive effects. When Shadow said he wasn't there any more, I thought he would be leaving. Did he perhaps mean not here in that exact location? Then again, maybe the test was just restarting. The sound effects were decent too.

BuchonlxD responds:

thanks XD but i'm very bad at this so I need a help to do a decent animation anyway thanks man

[Robot Masters]

Wow, this was cool, because I didn't know where it was going. I thought it was funny with how the robot masters kept trying to make puns. Well, the first of them did. I have not played the original games, so I did not even know that was the title the bosses in the game had. It's cool, because you have no idea when it's going to end. You feel for sure the second to last boss will be the last.

I think my favorite was Elekiman or however it's spelled. I thought the whole thing was going to turn into a music video! It's kind of weird, but good. I recognize those sounds very well. I thought Mega Man was going to beat FireMan with the cold of the ice cream cone.