Ericho's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Hyperborea]

This was good

I was hoping for some more action particularly with how the guy was captured, but this was still good. While not as influential as the Brackenwood series, I can see this becoming popular. The best thing is the animation and how smoothly everything flows. It is good that you did not try to go for anything superficial. The funniest part of it was when the enemies were being set on fire slowly. I have no idea what any of the words used in this mean, especially the title.

It got better as it went along, so it stalled a little in the beginning. It was pretty unpredictable with how the butterfly cut the guy free. I doubt there was any deep meaning to this, just a simple story was what you intended. The music is very good, especially at the very end. I can tell you put a lot of effort into making the landscapes.

exotworking responds:

Thanks for the review. The meaning behind things is what you perceive, so my intentions are secondary.

[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.

[thdrk and Golden Clock]

Right in the middle

This was a fairly mediocre flash and it looks like you had a nice Clock Day indeed. I believe the purple thing was supposed to be thdrk. It was strange because I can usually just assume that every character in a Clock Day flash is going to be a clock. He looks a lot like Black Doom from the "Shadow The Hedgehog" game. I was kind of expecting more of a climax. It just seemed a little pointless to be showing it go into night and then really have nothing come out of it.

There are so many clocks I could have sworn I saw a GoldenClock who looked nothing like this. I guess I just thought he would resemble a gold bar more. The animation in this was fairly standard and if nothing else, it was harmless. You could, however, use some more jokes and action. I liked the child voice at the end.

KombuchananClock responds:

Still at it and still getting dates wrong, huh?

Shine on, Ericho.

[Day 25: Chocolate]

What day?

I have no idea what day you are celebrating, but you appear to be doing something with the "Day X" thing. I also do not know what this had to do with chocolate. Oh yeah, TriangleClock eats DwarfinatorClock's poop and it's supposed to look like chocolate. The animation in this was fairly good and I was eager to know when he was going to eat someone's soul. I almost thought he was already eating a guy's soul with the poop! There still could have been some more action, though.

The intro with the ocean waves was really cool. It will probably sadly be the last time I see that today or really ever. I was expecting somebody to yell out "Eat Da Poo Poo"! Dang, that meme will never stop being hilarious to me as long as I live. You seem to be loyal to the Clock Crew and let me say you also have a pretty creative Clock name.

ClockOfBlob responds:

It's the Flash Flood (Where we flood the portal with flashes) and I am making a flash a day for january. Also, thanks for the compliment.

["Arcade Attack"-SMBCSM]

Better

This was far better than the previous thing that I reviewed. This is mostly because the animation (well stop-motion) is done far better and I can see how it got a higher score. These Super Mario Bros. chess pieces just look so awesome! If nothing else, I praise you for introducing them to me. Everything was presented in a very clear manner, but the big downside was that there was not much action. If you want to work in stop-motion, then you should have a lot more things going on.

The music was pretty appropriate but there needed to be some more wonder. You could make it like a battle between the characters and throw in the Mario icons. That still does not take away from the fact that this looks nice. It just did not have much going on. All of these figurines look great and I would love to see them engage in a lot more action with sound effects.

doppler73 responds:

Thanks for the improvments, and the 5!

[I'm a Ball.(2010)]

I'm a ball?

I guess you were just trying to make something really simple, but it did not work well because so little was actually happening. It was just these shapes talking. Oh wait, were you trying to get into the shape meme of cartoons here? Whatever your intention was, there needs to be a lot more action going on and many more jokes. Seeing as how this was "experimental" I guess it wasn't supposed to make any sense. Congradulations on working on your first independent cartoon, I suppose.

The only good part about this were that the lines were drawn pretty well. It was far too short and needed to have far more going on. I guess it works as a test but you should know that on this website it is generally not polite to submit things that are simply tests. Too bad you did not win the Underdog Of The Week award. Have more going on with more jokes for a higher score!

doppler73 responds:

Let me guess, I'm a Ball 2?

Also, FYI, doppler14 did the voices.

[It Whoopzilla!!!]

Whoop!

I think this footage may in fact be from the first Japanese Godzilla movie. That is known for being the best in the entire series. Normally, I am not a fan of these submissions where it's basically one short joke, but this was an exception. In fact, the only thing that kept me from liking it more was that you did not put in the Shoop Da Whoop sound! It is great to see footage from a classic Godzilla movie. It is also neat how you included a list of all the other flash cartoons you have made.

Sometimes it is not enough to just mention them, but also show screenshots of them! It's hard to say more, because this really works well in how brief it is. The footage itself just looks so good and in no way campy or cheesy. That atomic bomb scene is pretty popular, isn't it? This is funny because Godzilla himself is supposed to be a metaphor for the atomic bomb.

Psychopath responds:

No it's not, it's from the first one made in the '90's; specifically, it was Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah [1991]. The first Godzilla movie was made in the fucking '50's and was in black and white.