andrew-w-p's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Merry Melony: Book 1 (pg]

God damn, a real blast from the past right here! So many of us have been waiting since 2005 for you to return Meony to the grounds! I didnt believe it was true when this showed up on my NG home page. My disappointment that this is only a teaser in comic book format is palpable, but over ridden by my absolute exuberance that this came back from the dead, even if the story is going to be different. Cant say as I like that idea, but it's not my place to make that call, its yours as the artist/creator.

Lets see if this takes off, or falls flatter than my hopes in 05 when MM first died of neglect. I have to ask though, why a new story? The first was never finished and so many of us loved what was there in the original animation! Why not work with that instead of a total reboot? Format/style I can understand, but I cant fathom why the new direction in the story....

Waiting with bated breath, just wont hold my breath

Duhreetoh responds:

I'm starting over because I learned a whole world of information about storytelling, art and animation since I first started. You'll find that many of the things that happened in the original will happen in the comic, but in different places. I'm a different person now and want to tell a deeper story while still being true to what people liked. A dozen pages in, tell me if you're still disappointed, and if so, thats on me :)

[Erif hot Fire (2nd demons]

I suppose the "dont be an ass" comment is because of me? Glad I could so profoundly effect you. Too bad it didn't change up the animation you produce?

So where to begin? Lack of sound effects? Yea thats a problem. Your animation has zero timing, let me explain that. Your animation slows down a lot. I know there where parts where you wanted to show some slow motion for dramatic effect, but it happened in so many places, the start of the fight, when the fighters came together, the "powering up" on the black stick, the red stick's punch that had the "heat" behind it, moving across the room, getting thrown through the window, going out the window after him, falling, bouncing off the pavement... you get the idea. Your "BFF" picture even changes position.

The last scene was just super lazy, static camera and some writing over everything while a sound clip plays in the background? Hell even some speech bubbles would have shown you truly gave a damn, but since it looks like you did everything in MS Paint I guess you dont really care about the quality of your own animation.

Ohh yea, and it loops. There is no reason for it to loop other than the fact you didn't care enough to finish it properly. Seeing it once is bad enough, looping it just punishes the viewer with subsequent forced viewing.

Stick fighting animation can be good, but when its bad, like this is, you bring the genera down a notch. Badly done stick is right up there with badly done Krinkles ripoffs as far as choking the portal with junk.

You obviously have some drive to animate, why pump out junk as fast as you can, when slowing down, taking your time and really working on a project will get you the acclaim you are seeking?

Welcome to Newgrounds, a public forum. If you submit something, expect it to receive criticism on par with the quality of the content you post for review. You may not like the last comment I made for your digital abortion, and dont think I didn't notice you changed your comment either, but notice its marked as "helpful"? If you dont like the harsh criticism, maybe, and this is just a thought, try and improve your work before you post it where anyone, such as myself, can watch and review it?

Zero effort = zero stars. Better luck next time. But its not luck you need, but hard work and desire to improve your art.

STUCavity responds:

I guess it's much better then the other one? Thanks, I forgot the sound effects, plus I did had a start button, but I had to remove because the converter had problems and tho it wont continue, and then i forgot. I don't really know what you mean by "MS Paint", cause from what I see, it's smooth. Whatever shit you say, okay. But anyways, thanks for the honest review again? And please, I worked REALLY hard on this, and I did not rushed. The part I rushed was when the he landed, and dam after that. My hands start to hurt. Thanks for your review, got used to it. Oh, btw, it wasn't a punch, it was him grabbing.

[Spilt Coffee]

I like it, your style is really neat. Super god damned creepy too. Its a real 180 from your usual style, but still similar enough to tell its you. Full on 5 stars for going outside your norm and maybe even comfort zone *?* and experimenting.

Looking forward to seeing more from you

Gerkinman responds:

Thanks mate, im glad you enjoyed the short. Sometimes I worry that my work can be a little too different and people cant tell its me from project to project, but im glad you found it still noticeably me.

I look forward to seeing whats next from me too! Ha ha.

[Bad Joke]

1 stars for being a fellow Stick of Truth member. 1 1/2 stars for the smoothly animated, but very short upload. You lost the other 2 1/2 stars because even with headphones, I could not make out WTF you where saying. Something about a teacher grabbing your boner because she thought it was a phone? Speak clearly into the mic, and enunciate! Would have been more but I get that youre working with less than ideal audio recordings. Still it shows that its more than worth it to take your time and do it right, even if it means waiting till you get mic access, ya know?

Looking forward to your summer animation, to see if you improve from this.

DiarrheaStudiosTV responds:

In the start I was just testing if I could make a south park character in flash, and then when it turned out well with the mouth shapes and all I just wanted to do something short (even tough it took me hours to make this) So I used an old recording and edited it in adobe audition.
In my up cuming video I have a really good voice actor so you wont have to try and hear what the characters are saying

[Nightcrawler Fail MP4]

A second upload of an animation you already posted? bad form man. Benefit of the doubt earns you 3 out of 5 stars.

[Awesome Guy Episode 1]

Awesome sauce! Hope you do continue the series, be a shame if you didn't. Was only going to give 3 stars just for being so short that it was more of a teaser than full episode, but a pig with a bazooka and sub machine gun? That's worth an extra star and a half. So really only 1/2 star off for the volume bouncing up and down like a ping pong ball.

Lets see episode 2, don't let us down!

TheUnseriousguy responds:

yeah the sound got a bit dodgey toward the end, no idea why probably the crap exporting program. stay tuned for the next episode :D

[Mortal Kombat Fight MP4]

Funny, if not totally predictable. Still, MK would have been a lot more fun had it ever played out as such. More so for the epic fight and anime style aerial combat than the obnoxiously huge breasts at the end. Fan service sells though. Not many people can knock a set of knockers. I mean she was busty but not like that, how can the poor woman fight with those watermelons attached to her chest. Gonna win points with most males anyway. So whats next?

Also why submit this again 12 days later? I dot get that part. Repeat posting knocked you down from 4 stars to 2 1/2 stars. One star was lost for the over the top breasts, dont get me wrong, I'm without a doubt a breast man, but anything that could suffocate me during cowgirl is kinda gross. As my pop always said "anything more than a hand full/mouth full is a waste! HA

[Funny or Die]

"If you dont find this funny you will die" If thats the case.....

Well you just killed more people than Genghis Khan and Hitler combined, nobody over the age of 12 would find your talentless and pointless piss and shit jokes funny.

Crude can be funny if its done right, this was just lazy. Not even classifiable as low brow, or even low hanging fruit. This is below even plain old playground level juvenile. You should be ashamed for even posting this on Newgrounds, and THAT'S saying something. Zero stars

DJFyatChoonZ responds:

Great Success!

Also someone's a little mad, lel.

[Strange World]

Looks like you drew this on an etch-a-sketch. If your goal was to make it look like you didn't care about quality and just made this as fast as possible, you succeeded. The "story" if you could even call it that was just awful. Unfunny as hell and the timing was so bad, it makes CSPAN look upbeat and hilarious in comparison.

Zero stars. You should donate your animation software to someone who gives a damn about animating instead of uploading junk to Newgrounds. At least the just as bad curry animation had slightly more effort given to it. This was lazy all around. Why even bother?

[Croaky Dokey]

Great animation, and cool story. Would have been 5 stars if not for the creepy, breathy, whispering and dead pan voice over. It sounds like you are a serial killer talking under a blanket while trying not to wake up your latest victim!

Speak up, especially for kid focused material. You need to sound bright and less murdery.

Good work otherwise though.