Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[2011 | Squirrel Antics]

Too long!

It's been awhile since I have seen a new submission from you. It just goes to show that you never lose your idea of being good at something. Did this really take you an entire year to do? Anyway, this was great because it was a great homage to classic Looney Tunes cartoons and other cartoon slapstick. The animation is really good and for being a goofy cartoon, all of the elements have quite a bit of depth to them. I admit that I was not expecting that ending.

There were a lot of things going on, like the seagulls flying. The best part of animation was probably when the rocket hit the moon in the beginning. While not very long, it is always nice to put in scene selection in. Even the music was a great tribute to classic slapstick! Congradulations on making something great after being gone from submitting stuff.

Dwarfer-Stu responds:

No no this didnt take me an entire year to do. I did most of the animation a year ago, then stopped, and came back to it a couple of days ago to finish it. I know, I'm being lazy :/

[Alligator Insult]

Where to start?

This is one of those cartoons where it is extremely difficult to hate or love it. On one hand, it has really good animation that quite literally moves very fluidly. Then again, it has no sound and no plot. It seems to be in my best interests to put it strictly in the middle, where I believe it belongs. Next time, you should probably work on having more elaborate stuff going on, but it is still not terrible. The best thing is the animation.

It seems like I have heard a phrase like this before. It almost seems like some childhood memory that was somehow forgotten. It is kind of like that one song where the monkeys are talking to the alligator about how he can't catch them. Wherever it is from, it still seems random to make a cartoon like this. I couldn't think of a good alligator insult.

DuckingForTruth responds:

I do appreciate the time you took to comment on this, and I do agree with the points that were made. Future projects that i submit will be "finished" and stuff. Again thank you for the clear feedback. :)

[Wilhelm Park]

That was random

Apart from the fact that the animation was absolutely gorgeous, this had one of the coolest endings ever! I was NOT expecting the girl to enjoy her sex with the monster...much less marry and have a kid with it. Those Cthulthu like beings can be unpredictable. The voice work was absolutely brilliant as well, especially the girl. I am glad to look at your stuff because you have done a lot of great things for this website. I kind of suspected that guy was going to be the monster.

This had a great way of creating tention and stress and complete unpredictability. Too bad you missed getting this out on Valentine's Day by a single day. I like how everything is normal until the monster actually shows up. It's especially cool to see how much detail you can put into a more mundane story. I am glad it did not result in rape.

redminus responds:

lolz, what up Ericho?
Glad you enjoyed, and got the joke... really though, I wasn't aiming for V-day, it just sort of fell like that, and I also feel like a good story idea (even if it's just a 5-minute short) should be able to transcend any of the holiday/theme days that give it context, you know? Its good to hear that people sort of think it did, especially because the valentines thing was kind of accidental. Take it easy man, keep up the reviews!

[Derek and Kelso 4.2]

Could have been worse

I am not familiar with the rest of the series, so I was quite confused as to what was going on. I did manage to think this a little entertaining because the animation was so bad it was good at many times. That being said, you could work more on animation. It seems weird how the characters just move and even tell jokes. You did seem to have a good understanding of what color effects to use, though. I think there were some uses of the cutaway gag from "Family Guy".

Anyway, the voices could also be better, although they were certainly not terrible. It was also hard to understand what was going on. It seems like it was trying to have a story when it really did not. Random humor can really work for me but it can clutter something that tries to have a story. I am reminded of Dr. Kelso from "Scrubs".

InfamousD responds:

Thanks Eric,

I uploaded the full version of this flash under 'Derek and Kelso 4' which could give u a better understanding of what's going on. I would like to know how it reminded you of scrubs, lol.

[Chrono Trigger Unglued 12]

Again!

It seems like you just never had a bad submission under the Chrono Trigger Unglued title. This was fun because of the funny sound effects. I loved hearing the Muppet noise at the beginning as well as the ending music. It is too bad Jaspar had yet to be introduced into the series. Still a good watch, because it had a lot of good humor, especially when Fritz entered the story. It was funny how you had to click on the shiny thing because it was so frigging obvious!

Well, I guess that was the joke. It seems like there could still be some more action scenes put in, because I do kind of expect that. The humor is good, but it is a parody of "Chrono Trigger" after all. It's amazingly how consisently you guys have made this long running series. It was weird to see Lucca on the title screen but not the cartoon itself.

Clovis15 responds:

I'm glad you liked it, and thank you so much for your kind words. I will admit that CTU isn't very battle driven, but there is a nice fight scene in Episode 15 with the Dragon Tank. There will also be a major action event in the upcoming Episode 24 (or possibly 25, it depends on how the writing works out). As for the title screen, that's actually Jenny (an original creation of CTU). Jenny was originally meant to first appear in this episode, but the flashback where Fritz explained how he couldn't possibly tell how young she was eventually got bumped back into the next episode.

[Pickilow the Plop 4-6]

Twas okay

It is nice that you got something with a really good rating even if it was not that popular. I really liked it how it was easy to transition from scene to scene from the simple "Next" button. I am having mixed emotions about the animation. It's hard to say they are bad, because a lot of the times it's so cheesy you can not help but think it was intentional. Some of the designs of the dots are actually fairly good. Another good thing was the random death of the mushroom guy.

There were just not too many things that were elaborate. I felt like the jokes could have used some work, but it was random of course. It was nice to put all of these in one collection and not just seperate submissions. In case people do not realize this, you have to watch every episode to move onto the next one. There were few things really particularly great or terrible about this.

BanglaBoy96 responds:

;D thanks for the review

[Hunted...]

Lots of potential

The best part of this was the animation. I felt it was funny how there was such splendid animation regarding the title and the transition effects but the other parts were fairly bland. I suggest you try to throw in some more music and more jokes. It seems like this ended quite quickily and there was not a "To Be Continued" or anything. At least you had some funny jokes like the random "Banana Phone" joke. Geez, how long has it been since I heard that meme referenced?

I also liked the little easter egg with the tiny words. For those of you wondering, it says, "If you can read this, you're too close to the screen". I do not think I am so much close to the screen as I am just a guy who likes at those things. The monser itself had a pretty good design. Try to work a little more on jokes and have more of an ending, but congrats on getting so many voices.

00-BEN-00 responds:

Thanks for the review! It's really useful

The script had actually another ending, but it was 2 months past halloween already, so I made it an open end.
I noticed myself too that there wasn't too much music, I worked on that in the next animation I'm doing now called 'The Mine'.

Thanks again for the review! :D

[Captain Planet Rampage]

I wish the Planeteers were here

I heard they were actually thinking of bringing back that show to combat global warming or something. Anyway, this was really funny because of how stupid Captain Planet is. I thought you were going to say something about him killing everyone in the world, but that would happen anyway with the Earth's atomsphere being destroyed. He should have just eaten them! He said birds were the only thing that kept him from doing it in the first place! I love how insanely strong Captain Planet is.

He seems to be Dragonball Zesque with how many cities and stuff he destroys. I also loved the joke about eating plastic for some reason. The animation is great as always and stresses how pathetic Captain Planet looks. I see you have changed your name to The (Sexual-Lobster) for some reason. Well, it adds to the abstractness of your submissions!

Sexual-Lobster responds:

i saw some concept art for the updated show, it was even more mulletitious.