Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Power-of-love]

Great and weird!

I have no idea what video game you are spoofing, but that was negated by the fact that this was really sweet! I was thinking it would take a turn to act like "King Kong" but it took a different step altogether. I guess I am glad it did not stop with the scene where he first found her. The character designs were really strange, but also very creative! There was a lot of action going on, even though nothing made sense. It is too bad you are not good in English, but you seem to get the translations right.

I would know as I speak English. There was also a great variety of colors being used, like the hair or the creatures he was fighting. To show how much of a dork I am, I think when he went to the lair, he defeated 28 enemies. Too bad that "Mini Fighter Game" was not in the actual cartoon. My only complaint is that the villian could have had more motivation.

[Avatar Boredom Dub 8]

Do they really have boomerang schools?

I've seen so many of these submissions, but I never got the oppurtunity to review one until now! This was a very funny episode as is really everything else in the series. As you are known for being a voice actor, it's great looking at stuff you did by yourself. You voice talents truly shine here as every character has a distinctive voice and personality. I love how Toph sounds, that seems just like how a person who looks like that would sound. I laughed out loud when Katara hit Zuko with water.

The way the mouths are edited looks very good and authentic to the original style. I guess everyone thinks a gag dub is an abridged series nowadays. I do not recall seeing these on the front page for whatever reason. The voices and emotions go really well with what the characters are signalling through body language, too. Makes me sad I never watched ATLA.

[Goofy Movie]

No Goofy?

I was looking forward to seeing Goofy (the Disney character) in this and it was too bad he was not there. I thought that maybe this would be a parody of "A Goofy Movie" or something. This really goes on for too long. The animation/effects are quite poor, paraticularly with how the cartoon guys exist in the real world. There some good parts, like how you shot the cartoon dudes at the end. This is really not even the kind of website a video like this should be.

I do not have a problem with the occasional live-action video here (well, this did have animation). That's how we got "Numa Numa"! The thing I do not like is when the quality is low. I guess I can not really hate this submission because you yourself stated it was not intended to be good. It still was not entertaining to me.

InfamousD responds:

Don't recall stating that it was not intended to be good. I suggest you get your eyes checked an read more carefully, ho!

[Umichan Dark Winter]

Looks good

This was fairly entertaining to watch and it was good to see all of those voices and songs. The animation was simply gorgeous at least in terms of how the camera worked and the background. The downsides was that the character animation could have been better. It is a little hard to take this seriously when her breasts bounce as she is running. I don't know, maybe if she was hotter, I wouldn't care. This still has a great atmosphere to it and really keeps you guessing.

There was not that much action but you are trying to first set up your characters and story. Congrats on managing to make it into the Christmas 2009 section. This could use some more dialogue as it got confusing. What matters is that it does seem to have an original design and for the most part it works. The transition effects are good too.

Vortex00 responds:

Thanks. hopefully I can get better at animation and story telling.

[Yoshi walk]

Not as good as the first one

The first submission you had here was really great, but this was not so much. Do not get me wrong, I thought the animation was nice and everything. It just seems like you could have put more effort into making something like this. It does work really well as a short cycle but that's not the sort of thing we expect on this website. At least you have good animation and were nice enough to use that classic music. I never played "Yoshi's Island" as a kid (or an adult) but I recognize this music.

I think the thing you really want to look for is if there are things popping up in the background. While not the most creative, there a couple of those things that show up. The best example of detail is probably the blue mountains. Many things here have a lot of designs even if it does not come off as elaborate. I believe you said, "Link in comments", but I don't see a link in the author comments.

JoelOnToast responds:

Sorry to hear you were expecting a lot more from this. It was more of a little gift to my girlfriend and an experiment than anything.

It'll be the last loop animation I'll submit to this site, so dont you worry about that.

[Awesome Chaotix]

Sega!

This was a great cartoon because you placed a ton of emphasis on animation. It reminds me of the "Ren And Stimpy" cartoons where they really tried to tell jokes through the character's actions. Speaking of animation, it is great to see that you are accelerating on animation quality all the time. TomaMoto is definitley the male Rina-chan. You can really see how far you have come with animation with the first Sonic parody you did. Poor Knuckles and poor Vector.

The funniest thing about this was Mighty the Armadillo appearing. This is completely different than the games where he's the only one missing but then everyone fell except for him! It is great to pay tribute to a lesser known video game that isn't even new. It's cool to hear Larry's saturday morning theme on something besides a Larry cartoon. I would think Shadow would be the character to act more black because, well, he is black.

[Night On Clock Mountain]

Tricky's back!

I was just going on the forums and talking about how much I missed seeing Tricky the Clown! Granted, this was not a fairly recent cartoon, but it's still great to see him. This has got to be the most realistic depiction of Tricky I have ever seen! This was all around a good cartoon even if it was not what I expected. From the title, I thought it was going to be a parody of "A Night On Bald Mountain" from "Fantasia". I expected to see ChernaborgClock torturing the clocks of Hell.

The strongest point of this was admiring how good the animation was. You have a great use of black and white which allows your characters to move around in their environment. I did not really find this scary, as I did weird. The surrealism worked so well, especially the background. In case anyone's wondering, yes, that animation with Tricky does eventually stop.