Esn's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wall Lunch]

The doctors made an oopsie and left some guts out.

Creepy. Yet funny at the same time.
Excellent graphics, style, voice, music, and poem. I really hope you make more; your style is original on Newgrounds. One thing I noticed though was that the voice at one point didn't accentuate that it was the end of a phrase - "cause it was ice we wasn't surprized we fell of the wall and met our demise" sounds like one sentence when it's actually two, and it confused me the first time I heard it. There should be a feeling that it's the end of a sentence after "surprized"...

[Projective Detective ep2]

Hilarious!

Oh my, this is so funny! This baby's going into my favourites! :P The guy who wrote the script is a genius (reminds me of Family Guy a little) and the voice acting is top-notch. The animations aren't super, but they're not bad either & they get the job done pretty well. They're actually not bad at all, but the frame rate is a bit choppy.

Great, great stuff! I hope you guys make more!

ayegowj responds:

We are making more, hmm it ran fine on my comp maybe you need to turn your
graphics down? This script was more voice funny then visual funny. Thanks
for the review. I do watch family guy and yes i am a genius. lol kidding.
Thanks for the review!

[Xombie: Chapter 6]

Comments

The storyboarding and the way that the music fit everything exactly were really amazing here. It really felt like a movie - quite epic. The shots of the speeding car with that flying eye flying after it were the best part I thought. The style is great as usual (though the girl looks noticeably different than in some previous episodes...). The characters are also really good, especially those new things with tentacles (they really look like something from Metroid :P).
As for the voice acting - the "henchmen", while their voices sounded really cool, were sometimes hard to understand. Zoe's voice was good, as was Dirge's and Nephthis'. The only problem is that Nephthis tends to speak too slowly, seriously breaking up the flow of the action. You really must find a way to make her speak quickly and still have that accent...

Yeah, that's it. Good episode! Perhaps the best so far (not that any of the others were bad!).

[Fowl Injection]

You're wrong about one thing...

Sound/music for this beautiful animation will not be simple to add in & may take up as much time as the animation did. I still enjoyed it even with 0 sound because the graphics were so good (even though the frame rate was indeed a tiny bit choppy when he's riding his bike... & I have a FAST computer). One thing that was both good & bad was the overly-cartoony way in which he pressed the button. It was funny, but nobody would ever press a button that way. Still, I'm guessing you weren't really going for realism. ;)
I'd say that for music this animation needs a specially composed orchestral-sounding score to correspond with the action on the screen, something to really give it atmosphere in some places & more drama in others. You know the animation "Bitey of Brackenwood"? If you go to the website of the creator, and go to the message board, there's a big group of composers there in one section (some of whom are very good) who may be willing to help you.
For sound I imagine you know much better than I do what it needs... a realistic rain sound, of course, but some cartoony sounds as well.

I do think that adding sound/music in would be worth it... for one thing, I think that if it had music/sound this flash would be rated in the top 10 right now. Adding sound really does make people like something a lot more (if the sound is good).

Great job, & good luck in your studies!

[Creation by Turtle]

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The animation was alright, but there didn't seem to be much of a point to it. It didn't really go anywhere or become interesting to me...

OK, so a turtle creates the world. So what? That's IT?

Max-the-Great responds:

Of course that's it. It's in the title for crying out loud! It's not called "Creation by Turtle who does other meaningful things as well" for a REASON.

[Does Anyone Know the Time]

Much better than I expected!

This is one of the best & most original claymation movies I've seen on Newgrounds. Really awesome... some of the things must have been pretty hard to "animate". The car chase was just icing on the cake! :D

[21 OClockStreetTheMovie 1]

Awesomeness.

The clock crew has come a long way... this flash is absolutely great. Great style 8 animation, good music choices, good voices (style again ;). Going to watch part 2 now...

[Secret Lives of Squirrels]

Awesome!

You MUST finish this! Get Flash MX at any cost, legally or not! That was so incredible, especially the fight on the rotating tree, and how they stop everything the moment a human comes along. I've felt like squirrels are hiding something suspicious at times! :D

The soundtrack was absolutely awesome! Could you please (please) tell us all what it was?

Also, would it be possible to make the viewing area of the flash slightly smaller? It's just that it's bigger than my resolution of 800x600...

Pugchew responds:

I really appreciate all the responses about wanting to see it finished, but I think when I set myself up with a full version of Flash I'll feel like trying a new topic (lots of ideas that I havn't had time to explore).

By the way, the band's called Mad Caddies, they're one of my favorite punk bands from the 90s. Best album's probably Duck and Cover. I highly recommend picking em up if you liked the music in the movie.

[Fun With Fire]

One of your best yet!

The comedic timing was immaculate, the music was perfect (I gave it a 9 because at the end the "stop drop and roll" song skips noticeably every 10 seconds or so), and the animation was simple but on-the-spot.
Good job!

TmsT responds:

I blame the limitations of Flash :P

[Stop Cryin Your Heart Out]

Some great animation

To be honest I really don't like this song, but the animation kept it from becoming slow or boring. I usually love flashes like these because they're a great way of discovering NG artists that you didn't know about before. A great collection of artists worked on this song, and all of them did a good job... my personal favourites were renaenae (it's a shame that I can't find anything else of his on Newgrounds, because I adore his character animations), eric crobile, aloneinthedark and maylee.