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.

[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.

[Animation Tutorial 4 FX]

Pretty good.

Those are good was to achieve those effects. There ARE better ways, but at least if people watch this tut we should have a higher base standard.

By the way, the lightning part is broke. Might wanna fix that.

JackSmack responds:

as for the lightning thing thanks for telling me about that when I fixed the last problem I missed that little mistake I made. Thanks.

And as for being better ways to go about doing some things... yeah there are DEFINITELY better ways to make these effects. but what I'm doing here is simple yet cool effects that anyone can do. So yeah if you hand animate the special effect it will almost always look better but if you are pressed for time or you have weak drawing ability these effects will work nicely.

[Verbal Street]

Whoa, deja vu!

I downloaded this from your site via Flashkit in the summer, and it's still just as good! :D

How's Channel Surfing 3 coming along? I was gonna sign up for it, but... meh... no time...

Pooon responds:

I its finished. It'll be up sometime this week.

[Pain re-LEAF-er Ad.]

Actually.... that was really funny.

OK, the animation sucked. But the humour was pretty good - good enough to save it IMHO. Work on the animation for the next one, mmmkay?

AndyM responds:

Thanks very much! I really appriciate it when people take the time to review movies.

[Kung-Fu Vs Ninja Gaiden]

Hmmm....

It's oooooooooOk. But you really need to fix bugs BEFORE you publish the movie on NG.

In Part II the running Ryu was on screen when he wasn't meant to be. And you could see the background for the next shot on the right hand side.

Check your timelines, and only put stuff on the stage when it's needed. And try using mask layers too.

Fix it, and you'll get a higher score.

VGD-Productions responds:

thanks i realized it after i uploaded it i will fix it with a updated version