Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Madness is Contagious]

Kind of different

It's great that people always manage to come up with new and original things in their Madness flash. While this was not from Madness Day, it managed to do quite well. The best part was probably the unique idea of people becoming red. While it doesn't make much sense, it's still original. What I did not like was how there was no music until the second half. It was weird how you were listing all the countries in alphabetical order.

I knew you wouldn't make it to every one of them. I am glad to understand the airborne is why it affects the dead. Science has proven that those are in fact the most dangerous and widespread of all viruses. The animation could have been better as it is standard for a Madness flash. I didn't know the title would be literal.

XXBlinx responds:

thanks for the comment, the countries in alphabetical order is a conicindence. The story does make make sense? People are trying to survive and at the end the dad (guy in blue) kills himself cause his family are infected

[svs secret of the ocean 2]

Not the worst out there

You spelled "since" wrong, as it's actually "since". There were a lot of problems with this, particularly with how everything seemed so disorganized. What was good was that the sprite works weren't half bad. Everything just moved so slowly as there was not much action in the beginning. I don't know why everything seemed red with Shadow's fight with Sonic. At least it cleared up when Knuckles and Tails arrived.

It also ended too abruptly as I was expecting some credits. The font that the characters used was a bit too small. It would have been better to have the dialogue contained in a box too. You need to brush up on some stuff, as being just introduced, I can not say much for the story. I am used to sprite movies like this on the website.

tal9x9 responds:

i am a beginner first i don't no a lot about flash but wait for part 4 it's gonna be longer and i will use 24fps on it and you didn't watch part 1 so you don't understand this part

[VERDACOMB Trailer]

Now that's weird

This was a cool caroton even if I had no idea what was going on. The only thing I did not like was that the image resolution seemed way off. At least you still worked on an amazing trailer with a very original premise to it. I thought you were saying the names of video games at the beginning with "Grand Theft Auto". Gee, I guess I've heard about so many video games, I didn't even know that phrase had another meaning. The most visually pleasing thing is easily the orange thing.

I suppose that is supposed to be the "Verdacomb"? Most people just assume that the main character or thing in a work has the name of the title. This definitley seems like something that belongs at an art festival. I congradulate you on your success and can not wait for the whole thing to come out. The main character seems nice enough.

danomano65 responds:

I had to lower the image resolution for NG only because of the 20mb limit. Otherwise the film is highest on my vimeo and YouTube. You can see the links in the authors comments above. As for the "Verdacomb" I'll only hint that it is the name of the society. The infrastructure and government and rituals are the Verdacomb. The orange thing is called an Orb Suit. Used in the game you see in the arena. There are four nations and each attempts to capture the middle white pillar in their corner. :)

[blue birdy's highs & lows]

It's awesome

Yes, it's basically the same thing over and over, but it was just fantastic to watch. I think this is probably the best animation I have ever seen you work on. The shading is completely flawless, especially with how these weird fellas just move around their environment. While the music might get irritating, it doesn't matter. It was great to see how you truly showed your depth perception. It was probably as much fun to watch the shadows as it was the birds!

They don't even seem like birds as they have no beaks. They look more like bizarre bubble gum creatures! It just goes to show that you will never stop bumping out amazing surreal stuff for all us loyal fans of yours to watch. My favorite is the one (or ones) who fly up and then get up and then fly up again, I think.

TheBoogley responds:

thanks again for your kind words mate!
yep, it's all about that middle guy with the ups and downs.
He can't decide what to do with himself... :)

[Goobers - Blueprint]

Nice little short

I kept hearing the trailer for "Yu Yu Hakusho" for some reason. At first I thought it was part of the cartoon, but I now find that likely. This was interesting because it shows what a wide variety of flashes you can work with. You have made so many it is now even difficult to discern a single style of yours. The hand holding up the brain I can recognize though. The best part was when you did that closeup of the goober's eyes.

While the animation all around was good, that was easily the best part. While it was a bit of an anti-climax, it was still very unexpected. You can't go wrong with death and destruction flying everywhere. It could have been a bit longer and maybe had some more detail like a background. It's still a decent cartoon, though.

mexipino responds:

Yeah, certain ads seem to act weird every now and then. Thanks for watching and for your review.

[Bunnie Swordman]

Decent

Congrats on winning a Daily 2nd Place. The thing that I did not like about this was how it was so short and it was a continuous loop. At least there was a decent amount of creativity and it should definitley please all your fans (such as me!). It was interesting how you worked on something completely your own. It wouldn't be the first time bunnies were killed, they do that a lot. We have some morbid fascination with them.

The sound was great in this and it really made you think you were right there in the action. The colors were great too as everything just moved so smoothly. The moving effects are nice too with how fast the bunnies swish across the screen. I like how one of the bunnies is wearing those cool shades. Happy Memorial Day too!

Hulalaoo responds:

We love u so much Ericho, never change

[Captain Ig'nant]

Very funny

What also helped in this cartoon was how slick the animation was. Everything just looked so perfect and so, well...ghetto. The way the characters move their mouths and everything is so wonderfully done as they are full of energy. Call me morbid, but it was funny to see him get shot at the end. It's not often that I hear the stereotype of black people liking catfish. Seriously, there's too many foods that are stereotypical for them.

The best animation is when the Captain fires his purple beams to make people ghetto. There was a great voice cast here and it's easy to see why Sapphire is so popular. It was also a really good time and didn't go on too long or end too short. I love how his signal is a watermelon. You'd think a white guy would never want a black guy to act like that.

Chakra-X responds:

Good attention to detail regarding the aesthetics! And thanks for the review.

[Awesome Kombat [CFC]]

Could have been so much better

The animation that you showed in the intro with the two characters was so good! It feels like you guys just wasted potential by having the actual animation be so cheesy. I guess that as a comedy flash it was supposed to be like that, but it came off as annoying. Some of the jokes aren't bad, but they're not executed well. When the "Finish Him" sign appeared on the screen, it looked like you made up a new letter. It was like an "O" in the middle of an "I".

You guys do look like you have a wide variety of other stuff. I would enjoy to see some of that stuff on this website. There needed to be a lot more shading as everything seemed to be a single color. Stuff by other people is silly, but they do have animation that flows pretty well together. It could have also been longer.

Psychopath responds:

I'm glad I finally have a proper context to bring this explanation into:

You see, InfernoCPF uploaded Awesome Kombat at 07/15/08 and it was blammed because of it's low quality. Infact, you can see the original he created here;

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InfernoCPF continued submitting movies only to have them blammed out of the portal and eventually gave up on it; whenever you see that InfernoCPF had collaborated with me on a flash movie, it's actually his with maybe some of my own animation to enhance the aesthetic quality to make it more likely to pass, so that his previously blammed submissions could pass judgement.

However this time that is not the case; I created the higher quality material to serve as a remake/tribute to the original with content I created entirely on my own; audio and all. Suffice to say I only got about an 8th of the way there, gave up. I wanted to come back to it but I couldn't so I came up with the idea to simply combine our two abandoned animations together to make one eligible to pass Judgement and to make for our first actually collab; that is where we both contributed equal portions of the material.

In other words, the reason for the drastic change in animation quality is because the higher quality animation is overlaying the lower quality animation made 3 years ago.

I realize that it could be better, so I have future plans to enhance the quality even further by adding shading to InfernoCPF's animation and correct a few errors. Also the file size for each will be shrunken.

These kind of enhancements will also be applied to all of our works currently published under my account before we proceed with future projects; to commemorate the Newgrounds redesign by redesigning our own works in conjunction with the Newgrounds redesign. We hope to file swap our enhanced works just before the new redesign is applied to the site to minimize the opportunity people have of seeing it before the site is rebooted so it appears that the afore mentioned works appear to be a part of the sites actual redesign.

I have all of InfernoCPF's animations on my PC, some of which he never submitted. He and I have agreed that it's a good idea to continue submitting flash movies like this, combining our spare material together until we run out of shit we long ago abandoned. We're wrapping up unfinished works and reviving rejected business.

[Yotam & Fantasia 03]

Getting thicker

This is an interesting series for one that is rather mundane. I guess I really should stop with the whole "shipping" thing, huh? This was entertaining because everyone talked in their voices so well. They seemed so realistic in the way they said things. While not the best thing ever, it seems like you were trying to reach us on a realistic level. I recognize HotDiggedyDemon as using the Mickey voice from his cartoons.

What I would like is if you could put in some more animation to make it worth watching. With a girl named Fantasia I think you'd make a Nevernending Story or a Disney joke. The animation is still good, as everything flows in a very steady way here. It's funny how the characters swear so casually. One thing just leads to another with these guys and they do get a lot done in their conversations.

LazyMuffin responds:

Max's voice IS Mickey's voice, poor guy.
This version has a ton more animation than the previous two, but I understand.

THANKS FOR COMMENTING OVER THE YEARSSSS

[Goku's TV ad]

I don't care!

The most bold thing about this submission was the part at the beginning. You were showing awareness of the advertisement and mocking it. I don't think those things are automatically put up, but it's just a funny thing to put. The funniest thing was of course the deal with Yamachu. It really makes you realize how far behind all the other characters are. Yamachu killed no one in the whole anime or even defeated someone that I can recall.

It's also funny because it seems just like the kind of thing Goku would advertise for. The voicework was nicely done in this as there was eagerness in his voice. What also works is how the animation is good and it reminds me of some stuff by Egoraptor or even Tom Fulp. I love how stupid Goku looks with his big puffy cheeks.

Chimbley responds:

Thanks man! I really appreciate your thought out reviews. And yeah, I was just fellin' a little rebellious, so I decided to write that little blurb by the ad. I hope they don't get mad at me lol.