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[OMG: Preasent]

Not terrible

This was alright to watch, but it did not really have that many things that were good about it. The thing that works and doesn't work with this is that there's really nothing good or bad about it. The sound is pretty good, but not much else. It seems like you could use a background put onto this. I know that you do not have to have the most complicated animation to make it good, but there should have been more action. It is funny to see a girl get eaten by a monster.

It looks like you may be getting better all the time. I suggest you work on having more jokes and perhaps add some color or make more of a final punchline. Short things like this can work, but they need to be more different. Of all the tens of thousands of flashes out here, you need something special to stand out. Not bad, but not good either.

VenturaTV responds:

Well this is that type of movie I made in under a day a t 2:00 in the morning because it just poped in my head as a day dream while playing call of duty black ops it was colored and a background but it just looked like crap so I had no color or background and liked the way it looked it's not the funniest flash I ever made but it was longer and funnier than my first one

[Madness: Activation]

Quite inspiring

People are always going to come up with new and original Madness tributes. The best thing about this is how good the character designs are. The best definitley belongs to the main enemy he fights at the end with the red visor. It was funny to see its armor being taken off and it is revealed to be a guy with a face! That has to be the longest epilogue I have seen in a cartoon in proportion to the rest of its length. I could not understand the chalky scenes, but they were certainly cool.

It seems like you could have just put the whole thing in one bit without the dialogue. The red words at the beginning on the screen say "WARNING!". I looked at some of the posters and one of them has a guy with the captain "WANTED: Extremely dead". I think another has a picture of a cat saying, "WANTED: On fire". It's weird how he has blue blood.

tomtyke responds:

if you look very carefully, i did put a little bit of humour in there, nice and tidy so it's hard to spot, read what the password is during the note section ;D

[Chrono Trigger Unglued 11]

One of the best

This is one of the most enjoyable entries in this long running series, if only because of the use of those Scooby Doo doors. Man, that has been done so many times but it will never get out! I loved seeing Pac-Man, the cast of 8-bit Theater, the Monty Python foot, and Mario and the Koopa Troopa! A pity there was no funny prologue. At least we got to see the awesome ending sequence. There was a lot of good animation here, especially with Scooby-Doo and Shaggy (whoops, forgot their cameo!).

I was wondering myself why the cat did not just go under the cage. It is great how this one relied heavily on humor while still having a good story. You really have come a long way as appears to be one of the earlier entries. Some of it gets a bit too talky, but it's still something worth watching. The voice work, what little there was, was great as always.

Clovis15 responds:

I'm glad you liked this episode, especially the staircase chase sequence. Although I've since done much harder things in flash, it was at the time the most nerve wracking thing I've ever tried. As for things like the cat just going under the bars, its things like this that we strive for on the CTU production team. Sometimes common sense itself, applied to uncommon situations, can be the most rewarding outcome.

[The Beard]

NIce little thing

This was a decent effort to make for 2009's Clock Day. The best part was when all of those buses fell on LeekClock. I believe that the bearded clock was supposed to be GodClock, so it's too bad God was killed by a bus running over him. I also admired the animation used in this because it was pretty well done. While not that good in terms of transition effects, the designs of the clocks and everything was done fairly well. It's just great to see the Clock Crew doing what it does best, be non-sequitor.

While short, it still had most of what you would want in a funny flash. I really like how you used a different thing to signify the end even if you still used the same sound. I guess this just goes to show how unlucky beards are. It's also nice how the gray clock just stands there the whole time looking so deadpan. I guess he's glad not to take part in that silliness.

OctopusClock responds:

thank you sir.

[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