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!

[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...

[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.

[Remove Police]

Brilliant

Thank you for reminding me why I still spend my time wading through all the crap that appears on the NG portal - because occasionally you get something brilliant like this. It's even more satisfying that this is your first submission to Newgrounds, as it shows you've clearly spent your time on something before showing it to everyone, unlike so many other new users who submit something that clearly took them all of 5 minutes to make.

So yeah - great idea for an animation, really nice drawing/animation, and a decent song to boot. Keep it up, and great job!