Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Car!]

Yes, I can drive!

I heard that StrawberryClock's motto was "I can drive!" (or one of his mottos) but I don't remember him ever saying it. Thank you for submitting this so that I got to hear it. Granted, it wasn't in his voice, but it's good enough. This is probably the best thing you ever submitted. It boasts of the best animation you have ever displayed and the length isn't that bad either. It does lose points where it goes off in the end with the noise.

I am still glad that you managed to give it a definite ending. I liked how SwordfishClock had two eyes, one on the fish and one that was his clock eye. Or is that supposed to be more of his face? A kid's show subversion is classic, especially if it comes to something so demented. Longer and serious animation could use this.

[Duke Nukem Fail]

I'm Batman!

I would think you would put in "I'm The Goddamn Batman!" at the end. It's great to see your awesome style of animation, especially when it is put in so many scenarios. This would have been better if Duke Nukem had been doing some actual killing. Well, he does get a good headshot at that one monster. The most amusing of all of these was probably the one from "Troll 2". 3Dee does a great job creating an extremely dopey voice.

It does seem like you could have done more for jokes. I was expecting Duke to get killed or something at the end. At least you really know how to play up his moronic personality and his tendency to use one liners. The part that was the most elaborate to me was probably the Star Wars one. It looks like Duke Nukem is making a comeback in terms of parody for obvious reasons.

[Divided by Zero]

All I want is equality!

This was amazing because it was a pretty unique idea. There have been a lot of trailers made for non-human wars being fought, but this was still quite original. It does belong in the "Action" genre because you think it will be a parody, but the action really is played straight. Sure, there were jokes, but it works great as an action movie/trailer. It's great how there is so much detail put into the numbers. I guess you can never run out because there are always more numbers.

The style of animation is really well done and sets a tone unique to you. The voices are great and all the numbers seem to have tons of emphasis in their voice. If you ever make more of these, maybe you could throw in negative numbers. I don't think anything else in TOFA 2011 could surpass this. The lines and shadows are all done wonderfully. I like how these guys have little toeless feet with legs sticking out of them too.

[The World is Saved]

What you gain

It has been forever since I've played and completed a game on my own in an actual game console. Wait, I don't even know if I've ever done that. I always got help from my brother. Anyway, enough of this nostalgia and onto the quality of this cartoon. It was just amazing to see such lush effects. The coolest thing was probably how you put a lot of emotion into what us gamers do. Okay, I don't play professional games, but I play tons of games here, so I kind of understand what it's like.

The voice and everything else was so elaborate in this. It was great to see you appeal to your reviewers on such a personal level. It reminds me of that one cartoon about the guy who said he didn't have much to account for all his Internet time. While not as good as that, this is still nice. Luckily, I would never stay up that late playing a game.

[Drunken Stick]

Ooh, not bad

I didn't find this as good as most reviewers seemed to find it. I guess it's just pretty typical stick violence, which I have seen many times before. It actually works better as a comedy/parody than something played seriously. The animation is decent, especially with how he stammers while he fights. Oooh, that must have been painful to have the nuts ripped off like that. It was weird how they didn't even seem to exist as he ripped them off.

Well, stick figures aren't supposed to be that well detailed, anyway. I do think that you should make it longer because it seemed a bit too short. The effects and sounds still match up to what you would expect. The backgrounds are nice with that Sun up in the sky like that. It's cool at the end how they all talk so casually together.

[fighting?]

How interesting

This deserves its Underdog Of The Week award for how it is. The thing I did not like was how some of the jokes just seemed too immature, like the masturbating stick figure. The first fight was still quite decent and unpredictable. The animation that was shown on the intro was really cool! I would have liked to see it more detailed like that. There isn't that much of a story because there's like three stories that are all non-related. They progessively go from good to bad.

Overall, it's hard to say if I would recommend this. It is quite unique in its layout. The fights aren't that bad, but they could be a bit longer. At least you don't have any idea what is going to happen next. It should be popular among fans of non-sequitor stuff and as a fan of that, I think the good probably outweighs the bad here.