Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Dub Collab]

Quite random

It was hard to get into this a bit, because it was just so unfathomably silly. I am still probably glad that it was made because it certainly showed what you are capable of with no scripts (all of you). The best animated of the whole bunch was easily Sh0T-D0wN's, as I expected. Everything was just so nonsensical it was hard to describe it as being good or bad. In most collabs, more people have structure or at least similarity in their stuff. I am sure you guys had a lot of fun with this wacky experiment.

RicePirate responds:

It's true, randomness ran rampant. With other collage there is generally a unifying theme that is easy to see. I think the fact that the unifying theme of this collab was more in the process and audio, just made it less about a common visual thread. Good thoughts though :)

[A Convict Christmas]

That was sweet

I am normally not a fan of when more well-known authors try to put out stuff that is relatively short, but this was just great. In fact, I was actually thinking about the cross before I watched it! It was pretty impressive how you managed to make something for college with so much blood. Well, it did have a happy ending so I guess it all evens out. Even those people who are getting anal-raped in prison have some hope. Please let us replace all the swatiszas with crosses to bring more hope in the world.

[Cute Explosion]

Weird...

I am so glad to see a collaboration between Sexual-Lobster and TheWeebl. When I saw the "mandance" cartoon, I could not help but think SL was ripping off Weebl. Now, of course, I know that you guys are on good terms. This was pretty fantastic, because it had a wonderful sense of wonder to it and the moral at the end was really goofy. It's hard to tell if the Earth turning into a giant owl is really an improvement. The animation was great as always, although I was kind of hoping the two of you would both work on the animation.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

haha yes i strayed deep into the weebl's territory with Dance of the Manwhore
glad you liked it!

[Gamer Tonight Indie Dev]

That long?

I can certainly believe that in the future, we will have 3-D glasses for virtually (heh) everything. The funniest part was at the end where he threw up money like that. It was also funny to see the designs and animation even though I did think this was one of the lesser episodes in the series. It seems like you could have worked with more jokes and made it longer. It is still interesting to see this back and I myself can not believe it has been gone for such a long time! I guess I have reviewed so much stuff it is hard to keep track of the last time I saw something.

RubberNinja responds:

As much as I would've loved to make it a longer episode, I had a very specific time frame to work in. The interval skit had to be under 1 minute, which was different to write up being that these were generally anywhere from 2 to 3 minutes in the past.

[~Play~]

Quite impressive

This was fun to watch because the background animation was so great. It was a very strange cartoon as I was certainly not expecting the bird to die and then be brought back by a tree. I actually had some trouble trying to find out where the "Play" button was. It was not the words "play" as shown on the screen, but an actual "Play Movie" icon. The characters themselves seem to have more of a cartoonish design that contrasts with the more serious environment. The plant creature is still very well designed.

[Howto make great comments]

Congradulations on the 100th!

This was fantastic to watch because everything about it is absolutely true. I always look for the highest rated comments and SO MANY TIMES are the comments like this! It is so great when the higher rated ones have more creative comments. It is nice how you talked so much about another website here when you could have only put it on the website itself. I also loved the thing you did at the end by showing the pictures. The funniest thing was probably when you grabbed the apple and created a handapple.

[Chef]

Don't know why

It is hard to pinpoint exactly why, but I just thought this was a really amazing cartoon. I guess it was mostly because the animation was really good, probably the best I have ever seen in a cooking cartoon. The best part was how you had no idea what the punchline was going to be. It was also great to include all that extra stuff about the original storyboard and other things. While it did not have much going on, the way the characters just react to each other is priceless. When was the last time I saw food prepared like that?

DrpOpZ responds:

In these times where everybody does everything, being told that you have the ability to surprise others with something "unexpected" is much more than a compliment.
Your words means a huge personal success for me :)

Thank you

[Firing Machine]

It never ends, does it?

It is always nice to hear that music (dang that is everywhere nowadays), but your game needs improvement. I did not find much "advancing" into it, except more blood on the cliff. A better thing to do would be to have people come down the cliff and you could aim at that. I did kind of laugh at how you managed to make it have such a simple premise. The graphics are decent, it is just that there is not much that happens with this. I suggest some more elaborate effects and more going on next time.

Lorkas responds:

You're right, I could've made it a lot better than only this. Now that I've played it again I've realised I could've had stickmen coming down from the hole in the cliff. With enough work I could also make the cannon rotate and make it an actual game and not an interactive movie. I'm still quite happy about how it turned out graphics wise at least, given the fact that I was a 7th grader when I made this.

Thanks for writing this review Ericho, it actually gave me something to think on.

[Racist Ghosts [short]]

Quite funny

It is pretty late to make a Halloween cartoon, but this was still alright to watch. The lack of action really did not help, and it was very short. The best part was how it really does work really well as a single joke punchline, it's just that the animation needed work. In case you were wondering, members of the Ku Klux Klan dress like that because they were pretending to be ghosts from the Civil War. It reminds me of the Coneheads. Were those characters actually supposed to be the coneheads themselves?