Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[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?

[Waiting for Tom]

I'm glad he answered

I would have preferred if there was some color in it, but this was still a decent submission. The best way was the use of the animation even if it was not moving. I think this was really a experiment on something different for you, LazyMuffin. I can sure understand what it is like to go through wanting to do anything for money. I am glad Tom eventually answered you guys, and I hope you get the success you deserve! It was weird how you mentioned the story was over, but then it still went on.

[Dem Pokermans]

Quite funny

I am glad this won an award (of any at all) because it is certianly good enough to win one. At first, I was a bit turned off by the lack of color, but it made up for it by being so funny. The sequences where there was color managed to be more effective. You obviously know a lot about how the "Pokemon" world works as do most people. I loved the prescene of memes, like "Caramelldansen" and the Awesome Smiley icon. The characters themselves were so exaggerated it reminded me of the "Awesome" series.

[Cookie Jar Gone Wrong]

It has raisins!

Wow, I have no idea how I missed such a fantastic flash submission a week after it first came to the portal. This is really awesome because I am actually named "Eric" and I have played that game before. I am now poor so I could relate to the homeless guy. The animation was absolutely fantastic and it really contributed to the subverted kids theme of it all. The voice work was great and it definitley had real emotion put into it. While brief, it works so well because you have no clue what to expect next.

[Jaws Fan Fiction]

It would go something like this

It easily lives up to the notion of being made by someone young, as there is no sex in it. This made me realize that "Jaws" is a classic movie, but few people have actually written fanfiction about it. Of course, it would probably look like this. One error was that "Jaws" was not even the name of the shark as it was given no name except for "Bruce" by the filming crew. The animation does a great job of expressing child-like stuff. If I was a fan of "Jaws" at that age, well I probably would not have even seen it.

Falconer02 responds:

Thanks a lot for the informative review!

[Circle n' Square 2]

Joey!

Okay, this is probably my new favorite thing in the series. It was so funny how you managed to actually make a serious story out of nothing but a bunch of shapes and no background. It was weird to see Joey the square with those different indents in his body. I sure felt sorry for him when he seemingly died, and Patrick was definitley brave enough to defend him! I could honestly see this dialogue being used in a professional movie. I was waiting to see how a gun would look like in this cartoon.

[Ryu: Then and Now]

Not too good

The best thing about this is that it still has the great animation and voice work as shown by other works by you guys. It is just that since it was made for a collab, it is really not a great cartoon in its own right. Still, it was not terrible even if the punchline was a bit predictable. I find it hard to believe that anything could EVER be rejected that was made by you, Egoraptor. I know remember that I do not think you did a single "Street Fighter" thing. At least you managed to give Chun-Li a pretty good rack.