Neo-Egyptian's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Zelda: Heart for the Hero]

Genius

This is the first submissiom I've actually felt was good enough to review in a long time - the drawing style was great, everything was brilliantly animated, and the whole thing was hilarious. Great job, keep it up!

[Newgrounds Joyride 2007]

Brilliant

This just gets better every time I watch it, I think this is personally my favourite Pico Day submission. I love the art style, the humour is great, and it's generally just a brilliant Flash animation. Good job!

[The Shootout: (old)]

Really surprised!

This, by all means, should have been awful - you've never used Flash before, the concept is horribly cliched, and the sound is really bad.

However! You've clearly got a really good idea of how to animate stickmen, and there was hardly any tweening in this whatsoever. For a first Flash movie this is great - sure, the whole 'stickmen having a fight' thing has been thousands of times by now, but this had a lot more effort put into it than most first-time flashes that use the same concept.

Keep it up!

sam-delitans responds:

yea, i did everything FBF, after that, i realised that there was another easiler way of doing it,haha

[- The Nail -]

Great

Before I write this, I'd just like to respond to the previous review by saying rtil has won a whole bunch of portal awards before and has a batting average of 4.17, so you are frankly chatting out of your arse. The fact you have a bunch of Foamy animations in your favourites list isn't a good enough reason to be so biased against this submission - for example, you've given the graphics a rating of 1 which is absolutely ridiculous.

Moving on. This cartoon was great - on a technical level, the graphics were great, and the music worked well with the animation. However, the best part was the story, which had a very important message to most NG animators - don't get complacent. You don't, for example, see Adam Phillips using the same graphics in the YuYu as he did in the Hitchhiker series, and this is because he's willing to actually improve his style and try out new things. I don't exactly expect the Foamy series to have the graphical style of the Brackenwood series, but you're right - it's barely changed at all since it started.

So yeah, good work.

[KFK's Adventures #3]

Love it

I hadn't actually seen any of this series until the other day, and I absolutely love it. At first I had some reservations about the lack of any real animation, but the comic-strip (but not quite) style really adds to the humour. Also, it's hilarious!

Good job, keep making these!

[Scandinavia]

Oh for goodness' sake

I am getting so fed up with this growing trend on Newgrounds of awful Flash animator groups who vomit out the same awful type of animation day after day. It's not funny, it shows absolutely no skill and it's a trend that is frankly ruining the integrity of Newgrounds as a serious portal for talented artists. You may think it's totally hilarious how idiots let this pass through the portal, but don't think that not getting blammed means you're somehow 'beating the system'. You're never going to have a huge audience, you're never going to actually achieve anything through these animations and you're just gonna be hated by anyone with the smallest amoount of intelligence.

Spinister responds:

yesterday i got 1400 views on a submission entitled "rape"

thats more than i ever got on my serious flashes

[Plantation(suffocation)]

Hang on...

You submitted this yesterday and it got blammed.

That is pretty much all that needs to be said.

Imageation responds:

it didnt get blammed, i removed it myself, and there was an error in the form for letting me adjust my file, which is why i had to upload the whole thing again.

[The Melcrosum Person Pt.1]

Hmm

I agree with the last review - some of the jokes are extremely drawn-out and because of this they lose all impact (the worst of all was the bit with the guy holding up the signs outside the rock place). Furthermore, the cartoon seemed to sporadically cut between serious and random. Indeed, after watching the first scene I didn't even realise this was supposed to be a comedy until you had the 'should we go to the next scene now?' bit, which seemed completely out of place.

However, as a first submission this is surprisingly decent and because of this I'm not going to try and get this blammed. For example, the artwork - while certainly not award-winning - is pretty good, especially for a first-time submission. The sound is also ok, and you've actually managed to use a lot of music and speech without the filesize going above 2 megs, which is great seeing as so many first-time Flash users have no idea how to compress a movie.

So yeah, keep it up, just try and really focus on refining the jokes and the script. Comic timing is essential to making something funny and if you drag jokes out for too long or simply repeat them over and over again they stop being amusing and detract from the overall impact of the cartoon. You've made a good first try, but it's heavily flawed - work on it!

DWT-Productions responds:

Thank you, good advise. A well thought out review and im sure it will help us out in the furture...

[Shadow Of The Sand:RE]

One of the worst movies I've ever seen on NG

Everything about this was terrible, from the awful music to the terrible spelling, and from the stupid, cliched plot to the terrible way you'd animated the sprites. Come on, someone else has already done the drawing for you, you could at least animate it well!

I've seen sprite movies that are technically better than this but have still been blammed because they've simply recycled the tired old 'sprite movie of Sonic fighting a rival' story. Actually come up with your own ideas and STOP USING SPRITES.

[Reading]

Weak

The idea behind this is good, I guess, but seeing as how the animation is designed for very young children and not the collective NG masses, I'm kinda unsure why you've submitted this here.

A few other things - it's funny this animation is about reading when you've clearly demonstrated you have problems writing. Furthermore, it's somewhat amusing that in a cartoon designed for people who can't read, there's absolutely no voice-acting, meaning that you have to - you guessed it - read the text within the animation to understand what's going on. Finally, the scenes depicted in the animation are absolutely ridiculous. Seriously, failing to put on a hard-hat in a construction site or taking a car out for a drive knowing you can't read warning signs isn't a case of illiteracy, it's a case of mental problems.

AsleepAce responds:

Well... sure I didn't take too much time on this, it was for school, anyways I guess some people dont get its more of a joke than reality.