Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pandora's fridge]

Goes on too long

It is hard to hate this cartoon that much, because it does have some innovative stuff in it. The best part was how you just had so much going on. The weaknesses was that the thing just goes on too long and it is hard for the watcher to keep their interest the whole way through. At least your picture of Robotnik was fairly good. Anyway, I am surprised you did not edit the audio for Darth Vader/Whoever that was for him to say, "He's alive" from "She's alive". I doubt a penis would ever be considered a "she".

Next time, work on having more of a background as it was blank in some occasions. You certainly have a creative side, just not the best way of using Flash with it. There are many tutorials you could take a look at. It was pretty cool with how you drew some stuff with pencils and I wish I knew how to do that. At least it wasn't an infinite loop.

straberrykiler6789 responds:

i thought havening pencil drawings
would make it a little more original
btw
that was a cyborg of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBUD DY
and an evil floating Pop-Up head

whey were both chopped up and they were rebuilt
but there were parts missing and so 1 guy was made from both

i should use a lighter layer next time so its less dark with same effect
in some scenes they were in dark underground evil lairs
so you can only see the ppl

btw if u have a scanner u can do the pencil drawing thing
the buildings are just rectangles with squares in

First Draw
then photo copy into an image file
cut it out remove white back ground and make transparent
save it as a png or a gif import into flash

As long as you have
photo shop
Ms Paint
Ms Gif animator

[Sasuke shorts [part 2]]

I'll review each one

Naruto Shadow 2 - Couldn't really understand it.
Sasuke Rocket! - Pretty funny.
Akatsuki Opening - Great to see where it started.
Sasuke fire ball - Their teeth are funny looking.
Neji's Byakugun - Easily the funniest.
Orochimaru and Kabuto - Cruel, but cute.
Diedara and Gaara - Didn't see how it was funny.
The credits were probably teh cutest part.

KKING1 responds:

Thanks!

[Many Hopes of Good]

Happy April Fool's Day

It is interesting to take a look back at the April Fool's Day celebration I happened to be present at! Looking at other spam movies, I do not even find this to be that bad. It seems like it would be nice to remind us of that day. Then again, I have heard of this one website where you can simply look back at every old page on the Internet. The music certainly sounded Oriental. I believe that was supposed to be Bruce Lee who was flying around the screen.

It seems like you could make the music stop at one point. When writing reviews such as this, that can be annoying. Never mind, I think it stopped now, and now it's back. I suggest that you have the action movie much faster, like have the images fly by faster. I guess as it was for April Fool's Day by having it be irrelevant you suit the holiday well.

Smidly responds:

Thank you. Very helpful as to what I should include next Apr Fools

[Predicting The Future]

Good idea

I thought this was a pretty interesting submission, although it could have been better in some areas. The thing I did not like was how the guy kept saying, "it's like" over and over. I guess you are just recording what he said, but it can be a bit annoying. Still, this works because it's a great idea to animate something your friend just happened to say. People have interesting or silly conversations all the time, so why not animate one? Speaking of animation, I really liked the artwork in this.

The coolest thing was how sketchy it looked. Call me crazy, but Robert kind of looked like Elvis in this! If I had not known it was Nicholas-Deary, I would think this was made by Marc M. It was nice how you just looked at exactly what your friend said and thus made it realistic. I bet most people thought there would be a similar scenario in the year 2000.

M4KBOT responds:

Thanks for the review man, you picked up on some interesting points. Yeah, I know he says 'like' a lot but when we recorded this he was literally speaking off the top of his head so I guess he needed some time to think.

[When Romba Attacks]

Oh, not bad

This was an alright movie. The main flaw was that the animation could have been better and it just seemed to end so abruptly! It would have been better if you turned this into a two-parter (or even a series if you wanted). When there are aliens invading Earth, I just expect a lot more action. What's weird is that the animation with the alien is a lot better than that with the puppy in the toilet. I guess you were working on contrasting styles or something.

It was nice to have the alien's speech being translated. The main character himself has a pretty interesting design. You could brush up on your color skills and do a little more shading. This is still not bad enough that it would not deserve to be on this website. Hopefully, you will take my advice and add more jokes next time.

Rubbertje responds:

This is an alright review. Though I don't agree with everything.
First of all: I copied the dog from my old movie 'The Killer Dog'. It's an inside joke you'd understand if you would have watched it (like you can read in the Author Comments of this movie).

It's funny how much more demanding Newgrounds has become. I liked the old days when it was still a pretty small community.

[Xtreme Coffee Action Set!]

Baby wave encore!

I love how you kept alluding to the fact that he didn't want his boy to be gay, but never said. Oh, sorry if I ruined the joke. The funniest part of this was by far when all those babies rammed out of the wife's vagina everywhere! You are also brilliant for giving us a button of which we can replay the same ridiculous scene over and over! A pity this did not win Daily Feature, but at least it had every other reward. The animation was good throughout and the voice acting was done wonderfully too.

I wonder if iced tea or sweet tea would be considered manlier than regular tea? Well, it was also funny how the kid kept acting like a sissy when he got it. I like the idea of a tea machine shooting out missiles. It would probably mess up the place, but that's what a man would do! The exaggerated voice over really made it and kind of reminded me of "A New Bunny".

BillyNapalm responds:

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[BananananaPhone]

Very good!

I am probably as not a big of this song as a lot of other people are. I guess I am lucky enough to not get that song stuck in my head all day like, well, some people. This was still great to watch because it simply had so much going on! You have showed us that you do not need to have the fanciest effects to have something really nice. I liked how everything was created with no black lines at all and just raw color.

It's great to see how funny the body movements are in this one. For every frame, there are crazy characters jumping and dancing around. It could use more of a background but it still works very well for itself. The song is so silly itself it would make sense something simple would be a good tribute to it. It's pretty much forgotten on this website now.

PPcanarkis responds:

Thank you.
It is sad to see that classic NG is essentially dead now though :(