Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Yotam & Fantasia 05]

Well, this is yet another entry in this weird series. It's hard to tell if you're trying to make something truly funny, or if it's more anti-humor. I guess I just wish there was more action in it. I do appreciate this, simply because it's so nice to see all this crazy stuff going on that I can't figure out. I think the funniest part was when Fantasia got mad when you made fun of her for knowing a guy.

With the animator joke, I assumed you would follow it up with something about how this was an animation itself. It's interesting to see how good the animation looks even though there isn't that much detail. The lack of colors actually tell a nice story. It's a must see for any fan of yours, like myself. It's nice in spirit.

[Robocop Jumpstreet]

The funny thing is that I remember seeing this. I guess it must have been on the "Bytesize" cartoon, but it doesn't ring a bell there. I think I saw it on your website. Personally, I'm not that big a fan of it, because it doesn't seem to do much for me. I will admit that the animation is still fantastic and the voices fit the characters so much. It's nice that something that was so short had numerous people work on it.

It's funny to see the drug dealers not care about Robocop. I should have been expecting a middle finger to show up in this. It's fairly short, so it doesn't really do that much on its own. Maybe you could have submitted it as part of a collection of old projects or stuff you never finished? It seems more like a commercial.

[ME3: El-Cid's Best Worst]

Wow, this was one of your most bizarre submissions. Because of this, I mostly thought it was great. The funniest part was probably how he kept talking about his dick over and over. I have never played Mass Effect, so I don't know much about the game or its gameplay. What matters is that this is a wonderfully goofy cartoon. It's fairly short, but that's all it needs, and it has so many funny parts like how he keeps punching people's faces off.

It's great how wacky these characters are. I love how you randomly have Buzz Aldrin. I think this was a reference to that one video that shows everyone saying how much they love the world. The voices really fit the insane tone of the cartoon. I like how you make all sorts of different submissions.

El-Cid responds:

Ha, thanks. Well, Buzz Aldrin does make an appearance in the actual ending. I guess Bioware didn't think it was pretentious enough as it was.

[Knowledge is power]

That was very nice! It was a bit hard to understand some of the symbolism, if it was even meant to be understood that much. I appreciate all the good graphics. It seems like an reinacting of most beginning of the Universe stories, like the fruit representing the fruit from the knowledge tree. It was a bit hard to understand where you were going with the god flying away from the people. I was afraid they would cath him!

Books are indeed great places for us to discover new worlds. This makes me ask why you're making a flash cartoon in the first place! I'm kidding, this is a very nicely done cartoon. What really fits is how there's no dialogue and the actions do all the talking. Knowledge is of course power.

[Dancebreak!]

I kind of wish this was longer, but this is still great for what it is. What's cool is that the animation is as fantastic as ever. You will never cease to have a colorful arrangement of characters doing random mischief. I admit, I was not expecting a scorpion monkey to come into this. At first, I thought it would be mostly a music video at full length. It was more of a one joke thing, but still wonderfully done.

I like how sinister and deadpan the voices are. If it's the same guy doing all the voices, then he's (or your) doing a great job. Once again, you deviated from having any recognizable characters as your stuff is so random, you don't need to use them. At least the guy behind it had his arm broken. I guess they are even in that sense.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

thanks ericho - i voiced the blonde dude and my friend peter voiced tony.

[STARBARIANS - Episode 1]

I honestly don't think I've ever seen a submission with such a high score! There was simply no way I could not give it a "5". What really makes this awesome is how the animation is simply fantastic. All of the characters are fantastically and flawlessly detailed. I had no idea this was going to be an actual series, I thought the teaser you made was just a joke. I guess it was a great way of telling us what we had in store.

I KNEW that they were just going to beat up and kill the snake wizard. I wasn't expecting them to say he actually won. It was even sweeter when you repeated the joke but did a great variant on it that actually made sense. The final joke was great, as it perfects the joke and perfectly establishes these characters. I guess these bars are going to be on all the Newgrounds movies, huh? It's awesome!

[Valentine's Day 2012]

I loved this! It's too bad that you didn't get this out in time for Valentine's Day. Of course, being late never stopped anyone from doing something great before. I think the strongest point here is the animation. It amazes me how it manages to get better with every cartoon you make. I didn't find this to be as wacky as some of your other cartoons, but still great. That is definitley strong love.

I wasn't expecting dinosaurs to randomly appear. It was sweet how all the dinosaurs were differently designed. You put in some great action scenes and it was nice to look at them. It's a bit hard to follow with how absurd it was, even if it's not your wackiest. You really created a neat world.

[Banana Goggles]

This reminded me of that other submission you made where you had something that didn't make it into "Sesame Street". It really did seem like you took a bunch of random words and put them together. Well, I like it! It of course helps that you make fun of yourself at the end. Do all British people sound similar because your voice reminds me of Film Brain from TGWTG? Hey, it works as well as the Clock Crew.

It's always nice when you do your fans a favor. The result may not make any sense, but you're doing it for them at least. I wasn't expecting everything to just get blown up at the end. I guess that is kind of a cop-out. Loved the Super Mario Galaxy poster and stuff you had in your room.

[Minecraft Fail]

I think the funniest part was when he said he was going to blow up his prostate. It kind of makes you realize, if he hadn't done that in the first place he wouldn't have been blown up. I can only root for the Creeper when he does that. What's also funny is how the animation was as fantastic as ever. I really should be expecting RicePirate to be the new TomAto. Have they ever done work together?

It was just great to see how ridiculous everything was in this. I love how the guy kind of explains the joke at the beginning of the cartoon. It might not work in other places, but it just works on a good meta level here. If people are as good as you, they'll never stop making Minecraft parodies. Unless of course, it becomes old.

[Contra with Two Players]

I was amazed at how good the animation was in this. I guess I just kind of thought it to be a tad overrated, because there isn't that much that goes on here. Still, short cartoons can work if they are good and this one was good. I don't even remember a time where I played Contra with two people. Then again, I played most video games in my youth and I wasn't very social back then. Heck, I'm not even that social now.

It's interesting to see how this can work against both of you. I was in no way expecting a live-action scene to randomly appear. Nor was I expecting the other player to be a dog. Well, zaniness is something I always take great joy in, so I'll give you credit for that. The voices were pretty good, too.