Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Catler Adventures]

New series?

While I guess I'm really late on seeing the beginning of something new, this was still fun to watch. It's too bad I was not able to tell it was Korean. I suppose that most Asian countries use those letters different than that of the English characters. It had no plot, but a lot of great things on Newgrounds are like that anymore. The best part was how you tried to make the characters really look adorable. Now, it did have weaknesses, especially with how the animation could have been better.

I did not quite get the end with the other two characters as the first part was better. I am glad this was not just an intro and it turned out to be a full cartoon (if short). As something for a test, it was fairly decent. Many times when I hear someone say they're doing a "test", it's just a single flash trick. It reminded me of classic "Looney Tunes" cartoons with the mountain and stuff blowing up.

[Red Ronin : 24 HRC]

24 hours?

This was a very impressive feat for you guys and I am glad you are all becoming more famous on this website. You each put worth a unique style to this collab. It seems like ninjas get all the glory these days, so it makes sense to throw in some samurai. It is hard to judge this as a whole thing because every individual part was good. Yes, some were certainly better than others, but overall it weaves to make a great collab. I have little idea on how historically accurate this is, but I doubt I should care.

The music is impressive as well and really fits the theme of the collab. You guys also seemed to work hard to make sure each scene fit the music. There was real creativity in this as I had no idea what enemy would show up next. There were ninjas, a scarecrow thing, and some main ninja guy. Oh, and yes, I heard the Wilhelm Scream! I did find it a little humorous, but a lot more mystical and violent.

[HBD Flounderman]

Poor guy

When I heard of "Flounderman" it was something from an episode of "Spongebob Squarepants". The strange thing was that this did not seem to be about anybody who was like a flower. Heck if I even know what "Kombuchanan" means. The best part of this was easily seeing how great the giant robot looked like. It seems like you were really mocking the anime robot genre by showing that and ending up with a fail. It is a pity this was not submitted on Clock Day.

Then again, you had a different logo (which seems to show StrawberryClock with a vagina or something?) so you probably intended it to be something different. Not that SBC would probably even mind. This was better than a lot of other clock things people submitted that got high scores at least. The animation with the giant monster was not that great, but I doubt you cared. Maybe you can show the robot in use next time.

KombuchananClock responds:

You write way too many reviews, dude.

[Jack Matthews]

Pretty outrageous

This is a really funny cartoon because it completely relishes in how ridiculously stupid it is. You even commented that the animation was terrible in the credits. It's great as always to see Oney and Almightyhans working together. The animation in this was actually really good, especially the scene where the woman gets incinerated. It is also great that this guy is just so cool in how his gun blasts the laser and stuff. The only thing I did not like was that it seemed to end a little too early.

This was still fun to watch and you really have no idea what to expect when it first shows Barrack Obama on screen. Hey, no planes have been attacked under his administration! The real selling point is how stupid the woman sounds as she talks about the president. For something fairly short, it had a lot going on. If this was ever made into a game, I have little doubt it would be great.

[Goemon's Christmas]

Who's watching?

When I first heard the title, I thought it was going to be about a Digimon. I guess they weren't the first people to come up with the notion of having a "mon" at the end of every name. I am fairly unfamiliar with whatever video game you are parodying. I still, however, thoroughly enjoyed this because it was a lot of fun. I had heard parts of that song in Geico commercials all the time, but I could never find the full version. The funny thing is that this website used to be where I got my favorite music from.

I am so glad it's a place where you don't have to worry as much about copyright as other places. That being said, the animation in this was good and it told a good story. Everything synced up well with the song. I just celebrated Christmas by exchanging presents a few days ago as a matter of fact. It is hard to tell if this does the source material much justice, but it's great to me!

[Felix's Showreel]

Nice and surreal

As one of my favorite animators here (okay, I have a ton of those) it really helps when someone makes a showreel like this. It allows you to take a look back at all of the amazing things you have worked on in the past year or so. The animation was good, and the surrealism was as fantastic as ever. I liked the music used in this, even though there weren't any lyrics until the end. My favorite scene would probably be the one where the pig cuts himself and puts a coin in himself. I believe that symbolizes greed or something.

This is great to show off the macabre stuff that goes on in your mind. While I could go on forever about what it means, what matters is that it's entertaining to watch. It would be what would happen if someone like Salvador Dali made a flash cartoon. I could spend forever trying to understand what the things in his works meant. The only complaint is that the animation could in fact be a little stronger.

[Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna]

Brilliant!

Few people make things that are inspired by Indian animation. It simply strikes me as strange because they make up like a fifth of the people on the entire planet! This was really good, because you sincerely cut the bullcrap and tried to do something really artful. I might be too cynical, I was expecting it to get dirty at the end. It does not matter if you do not know what the lyrics mean. What matters is that you have done a great tribute to a style of art that is seldom used on Newgrounds.

It feels like it could have been a bit more elaborate but it's so well detailed it doesn't matter. The best part would probably have to be the background. I do not need to imagine how long it took to make, because you showed us the progress you were on it. I guess we can use sounds as words for any language we do not understand. Looks like you started your year of animating off very well.

[everybody needs somebody]

Good for points

This was not that much but I can at least appreciate it in a certain way. The best part was how you introduced this awesome new clock named SlashClock! While I am not that familiar with him, he is certainly a guy who looks amazing and it's great to do a tribute. Okay, if we start going with celebrities the number of clocks will be infinite! I would mention some things but these things are self fulfilling prophecies already. It was neat to throw in that graphic of the fla file in the water.

The beginning was pretty creepy with the dark atmosphere. I have definitley seen things that were a lot more annoying and it seems like you got a fair rating on this. I have no idea if "Everybody Needs Someday" is a song by Slash, but is probably is. You do not look like your profile picture in this. I assume that is you in this.

[[PP] Clock Day'10 Changes]

Better than most at least

It is always funny how I see more Clock Day flashes on the highest rated things than on Clock Day itself. It seems like someone skipped out on giving it a "5", but then remembered to. As far as brief shows go, this was at least not terrible. The best part was probably seeing Exodia being laid out like out. The song that was used at the end was not too bad either. I had no idea it was Tupac who wrote that song!

It feels like you were trying to put some heart into it with that song at the end. Next time, you should probably try the intention of doing something good. As the genre is "spam", I know what it is and I can understand why people would make things like this. At least you guys showed a funny picture of Jesus. I hope you had a great Clock Day too.

[Cube of Forgettyness-ish]

He's a moron

I have no idea why anyone would deliberatedly have their memory erased just so they could get it back by filling out a form. Of course, stupid characters in fiction can work. The best thing about this was easily the logo. That is like the most CGI logo I have ever seen on Newgrounds! If you guys made your entire submissions exactly like that you would be the most reverred people on Newgrounds! The animation itself was really good too.

It actually reminded me of the animation style by Asppro, only not quite as good. The background is great, it's just that the character designs could use some work. I understand this was just something intended to be short before you made something big. Congradulations on getting such a high rating, anyway. The voices were alright but the biggest problem was that there should be more of a punchline.