Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rise of the brotherhood 1]

A great start!

This is quite an impressive start to this interesting flash series. I have to appreciate the animation, if only sprite work, everything is done very well. Apart from having good action scenes, it's great that you try to attach some real deep meaning to this. The voice actors all did a great job in this and it's not often you see something that has so many people working on voices! Rina-chan and everyone else were very appropriate to their characters. I would love to do voice work for this series myself, as it has a lot of good emotion in it.

[.::Reunion::.]

I loved the tone

I really like this one, if only because of the philosophy that it preached. The animation was very nice, especially how the blue clouds were made. It really hits you hard when you realize the person in this movie died at the age of 21. The flashback scenes were very nice, and it seemed like something from an old painting. You have taught us that we should always appreciate the people who come into our loves, as we won't have them forever. Thank you for spreading this warm and important message.

Jessismith responds:

Thanks man. That means a lot to me. Yeah, it's sad to think about. It's too bad we only get one chance at life, but at least there's still good that come after life. Well, I didn't mean for those to be flashbacks but shots of the afterlife. I should have made that clear, but I was animating directly to the song, so I guess the meaning could only be interpreted through the lyrics. Thank you so much for the insightful comment. I wanted to say just that. You never know how much you truly need someone until they're gone...for sure.

[Muffin Mix]

Muffins!

This was a pretty good cartoon, even if it wasn't one of my favorites. I kind of think the whole "muffin/cookie" whatever thing about getting eaten has been done many times before. Still, it's still an interesting idea to use, and it helps the animation is so good. It doesn't really try to be goofy, but is inacted as a realistic representation on what it would be like if muffins could talk. It was cool how the blueberry (the muffin's eye) popped out. This works fine as being a short story that has some nice color effects.

[Albatross -- Sbc Style]

Nice text

I have to admit I don't like it when people submit one frame stuff to Newgrounds, especially on Clock Day. I hope you had a very happy Clock Day even though you are not a Clock yourself. I was impressed by the kind of text that was used. It looked like some ancient Roman or Greek thing or something and I haven't seen anything like that. At least you were able to be original and send something not everyone is familiar with. Speaking of which, I haven't seen the albatross skit, so I couldn't understand this thing at all.

SilentCobra responds:

Actually, the font is the Iron Maiden font. And yes, while I am not a clock crew member myself, I did have a rather nice clock day. I really did enjoy the "Life In The Portal: Clock Day" and the "Ruled By Clocks" submissions. Those are damn funny. Thanks for the review.

[The One True King]

A great clock crew flash!

I wasn't expecting that much, but this cartoon really did have a lot of depth to it! The animation was really nice and it was cool to see that block that had the label of the flash submissions on it! I was surprised CorpseGrinderClock did not appear in this, but it was great to see everyone. The action scene with the Portal Bot was nice, if brief. It was also funny to see StrawberryClock casually reject his position. They should make an archive or something of the week's King Of The Portal.

CorpseGrinderClock responds:

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And that would be redundant, wouldn't it? Maybe not the worst idea though...kind of has a ring to it now that I think of it...

[Exploration]

Mediocre

I admit that I'm not impressed when I don't find any sound or music in something. It was pretty funny, however, when you acknowledged that there wasn't any in the credits. The animation looked pretty rough, but I guess it wasn't terrible. If you ever need to do something like this again, I would be glad to appear as a voice actor. The coolest part was when it zoomed out into the alien's eye. If you could put in music/sounds and work on animation, this could definitley be something I would recommend.

JugglingT responds:

Thank you for the review, i'm going to definitely have sound with the next one though. As for the animation, i'll spend more time with it and hopefully i'll get better, as this is only the first thing I've made.

[Flight of the Dragonfly]

Great emotion

Sure, it didn't have a lot of action going on, but it was still very enjoyable to watch. You really place a good emphasis on what it's like to lose a loved one, even if it wasn't through death. It helps that the music is very sad and appropriate. The color may have only been shades of gray, but it was still very nice to watch. Thank you for also including a very nice description so I could better understand what was going on. I honestly wasn't sure if the two people depicted were even girls!

["We're Starfox!"]

Very cool stuff!

I really liked the animation and it was nice how you showed off how well you synched the voices. You managed to be really funny, but without trying to be dirty or anything. The animation reminded me of the animation made by The-Super-Flash-Bros. I was just waiting for those words, "Do a barrel roll" to be said. You have made something unique in that it wasn't just put into the ordinary context of the game, but in a humorous and realistic context. I will indeed recommend for the Video Game Parodies Collection!

PuffballsUnited responds:

Wow, it's an honor to be compared to the Super Flash Brothers! Thanks for recommending it! Hopefully it'll actually make it into the collection.