Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[How to Recognize Aliens]

Excellent short

I'm a big fan of your stuff and this was of course no exception. Sure, it was pretty short (as you yourself mention) but the way it delivers its punchline (or anti-humor) is absolutely flawless. The animation was always good as always. It was also funny to hear the Wilhelm scream yet again. It's funny to really deconstruct just how a joke works and how unfunny it can be in its delivery. I would totally think a guy like that was an alien.

[Phage THX trailer]

Good animation!

For a trailer, this was quite impressive. I'm not used to seeing CGI here on Newgrounds, and it's a real treat whenever I do see it. While there wasn't much going on, it's obvious you're good at this sort of thing. If you're planning on making this into a movie, or at least a movie on NG with full CGI, I'd be very interested to seeing it. It was cool and funny how that whatever-it-was changed into whatever. It's absurdity that makes this site great.

[Evil Cup Man (Trailer)]

Not too bad

For anyone wondering, the salt said, "Now More Salty", the flour said, "Just Add Water" and the box of fish said, "New - Boxed Fish". It's cool to look at an old flash that managed to be popular even when it didn't win any awards. At first I thought this was going to be about the kind of cup you wear when playing sports. Geez, has my mind become dirty from the Internet. At least I didn't think about teabags in that sense. I liked the animation and voice work, especially how the tea cup jumped up.

[Simple Truths]

It had its moments

This wasn't terrible, but it needed a lot to improve on. I thought the transition effects were pretty nice, and I liked that Team Fortress 2 dude at the end (forgot his name). The music was okay. I thought that "Kenneth" was some opponent of Barrack Obama, but I guess he's an associate of yours who may have passed away? If so, I'm sorry for the loss of this Kenneth person, as he may have been important in your life. It just needed more action.

Smidly responds:

I appreciate your review and will refrain from mentioning genitalia

[Stenchu Stealth Shinobi]

Parody?

At first I was thinking this was about Naruto because I just associate the term "Shinobi" with that. I also thought the guy was based off of Kakashi, but it was apparently a different thing altogether. But I digress. I was impressed by the animation, especially when he was jumping and slicing at the angle taken from the front. I'm not familiar with the source material, but this didn't strike me as being that much of a parody. In fact, I think you're better off just doing action animations.

Rikimaru-Azlar responds:

Thanks Ericho. I see your' point.

[The Devil of New Haven]

Quite impressive

It's a pity that I wasn't able to view this before (or on) Halloween, but I can at least appreciate it now for what it is. I really enjoyed this movie as I didn't know what turns it was going to take. The ending is what really won me over, as I seriously didn't see that coming. The animation was also great, especially the eyes and the scarecrow's, er, tentacles. The voice work wasn't too bad as well. I hope you had a good Halloween.

Marsume responds:

Awesome! Im glad I could make it so you didn't know what was gunna happen up until the very end.
Thanks for the review :)

[Mug Hug]

Nice coffee

Well, I was very much impressed by the animation in this, especially with how it may have only shown generic places, but still executed well! It's nice to know that everything worked out and the coffee mug got what it wanted. The music and voices were funny and at the same time emotional, fitting the theme. What exactly was that brown guy supposed to be? He looks like he may be a woodchuck or hedgehog or something. All in all, a very nice flash that I'm glad I saw.

[Kids These Days]

Hmm, not bad at all

I was hoping for something longer, but this still worked well with what it had. The animation was very nice, and of course you're always good at this. Was the dialogue taken from another source? I don't think that was in the song. But anyway, at least you had a good punchline about reaching out to the elderly, and mocking our youth (although I couldn't really tell if that was a satire about how people are mad at other people for liking the Jonas Brothers). It's nice it ended with old people bowel problems.