smokinjoeevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Peter and his Sheeps]

Pretty funny at first...

When the photos were used and didn't match up at all to the voice-over describing the real production it was pretty funny. It became less so once it changed to the use of the hand-drawn animations. I think because they were pretty bad, and it wasn't as discernable what they were, as when the pictures in the photos.

Eyelids-pie responds:

Heh, well I guess I can be preety lazy with my drawings! Thanks, ill seek to improve that.

[Dks newgrounds]

Pretty not good.

Unfortunately, the quality of the animations over-layed over the video were really pretty poor. At one point, while you were supposed to be holding the Newgrounds tank logo, it was just bobbing all over the place, not even really staying in your hand, and I noticed you kinda smashed its height to try and make it look like part of it was obscured by your hand. It looked really bad. A lot of the other animations and drawings had a really stiff style. Not fluid, or interesting in any way. Like what was supposed to be a Coke can in your hand... it was nothing but a red rectangle. At first I missed what you had said, but must have caught it subconciously or something, because I saw the red rectangle, had no idea what it was supposed to be, then had to trace back my memory of the last few seconds to remember what it sounded like you said it was... Coke.

The voice acting also sounded like it was the work of a 12 year old. Maybe that was you... and maybe you are 12 or 13... so I don't really expect too much from you. But that doesn't mean I am willing to give a passing score to a bad Flash.

[Potato Meets Nuts]

Strange...

Comedy needs work. Voice acting was on the poorer side of quality. Animation relied too much on tweens for almost all of the movements. And what was with the jittery humping of the potato on the peanut character? For a good portion of the Flash he was rubbing up against him with a near vibrative frequency.

[-This is Halloween-]

Strange... or drab... or something...

The best way I can describe what I felt about this Flash is to compare the animation and drawing style to one of the moments in the video itself. The one where the boy is explaining to the character "Doggy" the following things about how Halloween shouldn't be considered a holiday anymore:

1. The PRANKS are lame
2. The movies are all over-used, etc.
3. The PRANKS aren't brutal or fun

The explanation about his feelings involving the pranks is introduced 2 times... as if the second time is some different point he is making. It sets the tone for the rest of the movie, I feel, where some of the animation didn't make much sense, or was really lamely tied to the Nightmare Before X-mas theme, with un-inspired drawings and sub-par animations.

One of the really confusing things was the character expressions. What feeling is supposed to be conveyed by zig-zags for pupils? How about entirely flesh-tone colored eyes? The eyes of the main character were a mess during half or more of the entire Flash.

It seemed like a lot of work went into this... but the characters don't seem to be anything special or original really, to have warranted the amount of work that you are willing to put into their contuinued use.

VintageBro responds:

super..

[A Wizard Creates]

Great stuff

A really interesting and creative idea. The animation was really fluid. I especially liked the grass popping in and the tree growing, with the small bits flying around like by-products of creation. The timing on the fluctuation and introduction of the stronger music as the grass bursts forth was fantastic... it really made that part feel like a powerful moment for some reason. This was just cool.

[Robot VS Squirrel]

Not quite so funny as it was meant to be...

It wasn't a fault of the jokes themselves (like the pee thing and the heat-sensing vision) it was more a fault of setup and execution. For instance, how in the hell was the little rock guy supposed to know the robot had vision that sensed heat while he was pissing? The answer is, he wouldn't have... which ruins the joke entirely. It makes it more an exercise in trying to discern whether the writer of the storyline is assuming his viewers' stupidity and ignorance... which ALWAYS turns me off to movies and stories. As I'm sure it does a lot of people. I just didn't find the comedy comedic in this one. The animation was good, the characters and plot were somewhat interesting, but the dialogue an jokes were just plain awful.

nyanyo responds:

please READ THE AUTHOR COMMENTS before commenting, i didn't write the dialog, i don't like it me too. it was a order.

[A Gamer & Resident Evil 4]

Really, really funny...

My only complaint was that the egg joke was a bit over-used... but hilarious. Didn't shooting the snake also leave eggs? Anyway... great job with the comedy...

[Kingdom Hearts Anime pt1]

Agreed that this is a show of wasted talent

You can draw, you can animate somewhat, and you should be making your own way rather than borrowing stories like this. Especially Kingdom Hearts. Defend them all you want, but the Kingdom Hearts stories have never made any sense whatsoever, nor were they all that engaging, and they certainly weren't well-written. I played both games myself, because the gameplay was great and fun to get into, but the stories themselves were just plain awful. I always wondered why Disney allowed their characters to be represented in such garbage storylines, when they seem to take such care in crafting their own stories. But, they are exactly the kind of stories I would expect people with a head for game design and programming to write, quite honestly... and you aren't doing your ability justice by folowing those stories in your work.

Nothing against you personally, or your work, which I think is pretty well planned and executed. You just need to find different material.

KobraEditing responds:

I will...I have just always been a KH fan and probably always will be...thanks

[Starcraft II]

Not quite sure what to think...

First off, I have to mention it, but your second title "The Search of Jim Raynor" makes it sound like Jim Raynor is doing the searching. It just isn't the right context to use the word "of" in. It should definitely be "The Search FOR Jim Raynor".

Otherwise, I'd have to say I wasn't overly impressed with the art/graphics. They were a bit over-done, almost too detailed, but not in a good way. Maybe too busy is a better way to put it. And the fact that this is 14 MB when it is ONLY THE PREVIEW, is quite unsettling. It wasn't even all that long. If the actual movie is larger, slower, and of similar quality, I think I will have to pass.

TheQookieMonster responds:

for crying out loud. I set everything high and i forgot to fix that. I was like "oh shit". Here ill fix it for you right now jesus.

[Death of a child]

This is a pretty big improvement

You seem to have improved greatly since the whole Mega-man movie thing. I was just lookingf back through my reviews and noticed the particularly vulgar response you wrote to one of mine a while ago. The style of this was interesting, and the motion was well played out. It was also fairly funny, though the real thing that made me laugh was to see that you are STILL pointing out to reviewers the fact that they have no Flashes, or batting average, or whatever. It is such a juvenile thing to do, honestly. Anyway... I think you're hilarious... but not in a good way.