EmmDubya's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Great Chimp Heist]

Sexual-Lobster at his best.

I go into this review as unbiased as I can, considering I'm a pretty big fan of your previous animations after having watched every one of your flashes on NG and knowing the lyrics to this and the other two Fernando songs by heart. Just bare that in mind. I believe that I've managed to stop myself from coming across as an arselicking fan. :3

As it has been for the past few years, the animation is fluid and smooth, with no moments where I really got the impression that a certain movement was rushed or such. The art style is more of the same, arguably unoriginal, however animating these same characters in a completely different style would be a negative in two regards; firstly as people would not react positively to any sort of change and secondly because your experience in this particular art direction surpasses that of any other and allows you to create your best animations and artwork.

One element of the animation present in all of the song flashes (but not others) is that it's very clear that many of the animations (such as Fernando's hipswaying) are completely identical to the last and overall there seems to be movieclips repeating everywhere. Due to their timing with the music, this had a rhythmic feel and can also be seen as a positive, although perhaps toning down on it slightly would be a good idea. Admittedly, Randy's dance towards the end which was clearly contained within an MC gave me a good laugh.

I believe that the inclusion of a storyline into this was a positive, for songs simply revolving around references to previous submissions that many of the new viewers will not latch onto can be less memorable than those with stories like these, even if it's a pretty thin one. I think the return of Hernando is a positive, for he is a great character too. Putting Todd McGovern as someone whom Fernando doesn't seem to be too keen of seems rather odd, as the last time I recall him being in a flash of yours it was in the crabs episode right at the start of your animation endeavours, where he appears to be as close to Fernando as gopher producers can be.

Now I'm going to come onto the audio, firstly the music. When I first opened the flash I had not yet read in the description that the music track is a modified form of Space Duck's background music, and I didn't even notice despite that being one of my favourite tracks on the Newgrounds audio portal. This version wasn't quite so relaxing, but instead was more fitting for this particular flash, giving the urge to pulsate my hips and get thrusting in time with the music. I'm not sure which version I prefer, but they're both great despite being better for very different moods.

The voice acting I personally found convincing and I cannot really fault it. Todd's voice sounded rather more nasal than I previously remember, although my recollections are vague and cloudy, so I cannot remember his exact voice in the past. Hernando's voice especially stood out to me as an example of fine voice-acting, perhaps as his accent gives more opportunity than the other characters' other than Fernando, whom talks in a bit of a whisper, covering his accent up a lot.

My least favourite section was that which was devoid of all speaking/singing parts, simply because when I'm running through the song in my head that section doesn't stick in as well as the rest for that reason. This is me seriously nitpicking, though.

To conclude, I think that once again you have outdone yourself once again and created a memorable song to go along with your recent few and displays great humour, skill in animation and musical talents. I'm very impressed.

9/10. 5/5. A catchy song coupled with great quality art and animation that just happens to have hilarious lyrics to top the whole thing off.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

holy crap dude, what a beast of a review

well, thanks!

[Mohammed Does A Dance]

omg

it was beautiful, and that isn't just because I'm pissed off of my fucking nut right now. <33

I love you, don't leave me.

Sidorio responds:

My destiny awaits. I cannot but off this quest any longer.

[Cock Rockets in Haiti]

You Sexy Thing, You. <3

Another cock-rocket film is added to the series and once again you've made immaculate improvements to the series. As soon as I opened the window I saw a perfectly drawn image of the recently earthquake-raped Haiti, rolling around in it's own rubble and I was touched. Straight after, the lovable Cock-Rockets came on screen, and with their amazingly smooth animation they traveled across the screen, in terror at how such a world power had been reduced to a clusterfuck of rocks and that sort of bullshit; at how despite their thriving economy the amount of foreign aid that had been coming through, the situation wouldn't just sort itself out. I have to say that the scene in which the cock-rockets raped the white missionary was just hilarious, especially when the Haitians stormed into the room and join in. I must admit to fapping uncontrollably to it - I spent a good week or so clearing the stains off my wall after that but it was all worth it. And oh god I love the bit where the bus drives off the cliff, that was so original that my face melted. It still hasn't returned to normal

Further on, the way you captured the earthquake victims' disgust at the orgies going on between the cockrockets and the millions of corpses was just immaculate. The expressions on their faces just made me shit bricks. The only moment that had more emotion than that is when they finally took the hint and went on their way out of the city, trying to cause as little offense as possible. Their disappointment when they found that the locals were responding negatively to their aid must have been absolutely crushing for the poor cock rockets, although I see that they recovered perfectly for their adventures in Japan, when they saved the country from the horrible, evil being that was rampaging across it.

Once again, you've created a brilliant submission, with immaculate animation, compelling emotion and I'm absolutely touched to have an animator like you working with my scripts. You've exceeded my expectations once again, you beautiful sunflower.

5/5, 10/10

PS: ApothesisLost is my boy. We talk about diabetes and AIDS and that sort of shit.

Sidorio responds:

I'd be a dirty faggot if I didn't respond to this.

[Cold Hands # 1]

Very Dark

I came onto the page expecting nothing special, and I was surprised. The dark, murky feel to it made me literally shiver through it. The different pieces of text didn't seem to tie in together, although it all seemed to compliment the theming extremely well. The grainy effect and little details all rounded it off well. 9/10 - 4/5 Thanks for inspiring me to make one of my first reviews since 2008.

Foxcato responds:

Thank you very very much:)
I'm glad you found it enjoyable. 3 more short movies on the way
+ a 3-minute film called Watch This Space:)

[LessThanThree]

Quite Strange

A very nice animation; the style was quite different to most animations that I have seen before, which worked pretty well with the concept of the animation. You picked the audio track very well; so that was a good idea on your behalf.

The only things that could improve it was to make what was happening slightly more clear; as I didn't quite understand it.

Very nice, 3/5 and 8/10.

Insanimation responds:

Yeah, sorry..I'll try to make it more understandable in the future...

[Epic Randomness]

To be honest; very bad.

Firstly, all of the animation is obviously just a normal video imported into Flash, as you can see by how visible the individual pixels were and that there is some space at the sides with no content at all.

The actual animation is very low quality and is little more than a badly drawn face with the voice of a nine year old speaking with no body movement at all. The lip-sync was very low quality, too, and didn't really resemble what was really being said. The things that were actually being said weren't really funny at all, so I'd recommend working on the humour side of it, too.

Sps399 responds:

Sorry 'bout the quality...I saved it as an .avi file and loaded it all onto Windows Movie Maker to edit and I converted it to .swf but it is flash....and im not nine

[Plagiarism: The Flash]

A nice list.

Content:9/10:
Contains a lot of me, so I like it. Plus most of the paragraphs were meaningful. The level icon and userpage picture were nice ideas too.

Layout:10/10:
Despite what you said, I really liked the layout, and I needed something to drag the overall score up to ten (<3).

Originality:10/10:
An original concept for a flash, I've never seen a blog post turned into a flash
before, and I might never see it again.

Execution:10/10:
Well executed, there's something in this flash that makes me enjoy it more than most flashes.

Overall:10/10:
Overall, I enjoyed this flash, and passed it.

TL;DR:
I like!

5/5

Sidorio responds:

Hooray for mwmike, the loveable scamp.

[Ichi Vs Byaku]

More than I expected.

Let's just state that I've never seen bleach, I know what it is, but I've never watched it.

Animation:9/10:
Some very nice, smooth, animation. Didn't amaze me, but you deserve a high rating.

Sound:10/10:
A good, high quality, backing track that added to the submission. The announcement was high quality, the sound FX was of high quality. Very well picked, you deserve a ten.

Art:9/10:
I liked the background. The stickmen were drawn very well. They looked different to most stickmen.

Humour:Not rated:
Not enough humour to rate. There was humour but it didn't really add or take away from the submission.

Presentation8/10:
I liked the way this was presented. The presentation helped out the overall quality.

Preloader:9/10:
I wow the preloader. A nice button over it to help you keep entertained for a few seconds before the submission starts.

Style9/10:
I love stickmen. These were stickmen but not drawn the same as the rest. This added originality to the flash style.

Violence:8/10:
Lots and lots of lovely violence.

V-Camming:9/10:
Not much use of vCam, what was used was well done.

Execution:10/10:
Well executed. Special fighting moves were performed a lot, which stopped it from getting too repetitive.

Overall:9/10:
Just well done. Everything else is mentioned above.

Ogiyose responds:

Cool thanks for the really long and constructive and good review ahahahah, one thing thou, i used the V cam the whole way, i just dont move it around all the time

[Can I Play With Madness]

A great flash.

Animation:9/10:
Great animation, looks nice, mirrored real life (good character physics) and, well, just overall very nice. I couldn't see the animation at it's full greatness since I watched it on a low spec computer, I'll watch again on a higher spec computer.

Sound:10/10:
Very nice sound. Can I play with madness is a great song. The second song is very nice too. Sound FX is great as well.

Art:10/10:
Great character design, background design and execution on the art. More detail could be added but overall very well done.

Humour:9/10:
Not much humour, but what was there was quite funny. The dramatic evolution followed by a simple bullet through the head was unexpected and witty.

Presentation8/10:
I liked the way this was presented. Not amazing, but nice.

Preloader:Not rated:
A good preloader, but I only give scores if the preloader was created by the artist.

Style:10/10:
Great style. Some of the best madness animation around.

Violence:10/10:
Very well animated and realistic (well...farfetched, but...). Overdone, but that's the way I like it.

V-Camming:9/10:
Very nice use of vCam. Well done.

Execution:10/10:
Wow, I'm amazed. Ten out of ten all the way.

Overall:10/10:
Great overall. All the parts come together and form a great flash. I wish you luck with future submissions.

VictorVonVice responds:

oh but you can never have your violence overdone in a madness flash. ;)

[Flipping ninja-moves]

How ninja

Very ninja, I liked it but it kinda needs a ninja cutting pirates open then sucking their organs out with a straw.

Lare responds:

Damn, that would've been cool. Why didn't think of that when I was making this?