MassivePenguin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Supermarket Luchadore]

Good but flawed

The Good: Nice art style, brilliant idea, above-par animation.

The Bad: No sense of timing, movie over-long

First off - excellent idea, and it has great scope. The NG logo blowing away at the start was really well done. The art style suits the subject matter well, and is nice to look at to boot.

But - and this is a real shame - your sense of timing is off. It took about 4 times as long as it should to get to the actual movie, and the setup for the final gag (the woman getting schooled) was about twice as long as it should have been. By the end it felt as though you were trying to stretch what should have been a one-minute movie into three or four minutes, and it suffers because of it.

It's a fine balance to strike to be sure, but it really does make all the difference; this movie could have felt really polished if not for all the filler.

Still, I wish you luck with this series and hope that the next one will be a little tighter - it has great potential.

The-Grogan responds:

Cheers for the constructive criticism. By way of explanation, I was kinda trying to build a sense of 'atmosphere', and the punchline was kinda meant to be the fact that it took so long to get to the punchline...Guess I screwed that one up! lol. Anyhoo, I'm new to Flash so it's always good to get non-abusive feedback ;-)

[Battle of Britain-Preview]

What the bloody hell?

AMERICAN pilots? Read your Goddamn history books, boy.

Get it right, or don't do it at all.

Foxbat responds:

Yes if you read your history books you would see that 7 American pliots fought in the battle of britain.

[The10000 Frames of Art p1]

What was the point of that, exactly?

Whoop-de-doo, look at me, I can draw in perspective!

Seriously though, what was the point of that? If you'd submitted this as a tutorial it might have been OK, but passing off technical drawing as a movie just doesn't cut it for me. Who can get honest entertainment from watching a bunch of lines appear on the screen to some bad music (OK, not my taste).

Your submissions seem to be doing rather well though, so it could just be me missing the point.

Ohls responds:

well, I dont see this as a display of animation skills, the entertainment value in this is sepposed to be the art. A showcase of my art simply put, only you have the ability to see how i made the pictures.

[Halo: Pramape 343GS]

OK then....

Until I saw the Canadian Guilty Spark, this was heading for a low score.

Now you get a 4/5.

DO YOU SEE?!?

[I Just Want To Get A Nap]

Ha!

Great stuff. Great animation, great song, great everything in my book. Keep up the great work.

Great!

[Captain Awesome]

OK movie I guess...

... but I wish that EVERY OTHER SUBMISSION would stop using the 'Team America' music. I've seen 4 of 'em in the last 24 hours, and it's time to stop now, thank you very much.

[Evoltion of my Animation]

Hmmm.....

My understanding of the word 'evolution' is that there should be some difference in quality... it all looks pretty basic to me. The sound effects were a big mistake as well - they interfered with the music.

Mybe you should ask yourself 'Is there a point to me submitting this to Newgrounds?' next time. I'm honestly surpised this didn't immediately get blammed.

ZerapaNimao responds:

i meant (almost) everything i put in it
the title was for the movie is evoltion. not evolution. i think the sound if good overall as well as other people.

there is always a point to submit something. to get honest reviews. im not surpised it did how it did do. it did have skill. i have seen alot worse. and i have definatley seen alot better.

[(2005) Mystery Kar]

This almost never happens.

A Flash that actually made me laugh out loud. Four times.

And I wasn't even drunk!

Kudos, Knox. Kudos.