Little-Rena's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Jim and Pals Shorts: Ep 7]

Alright

Personally, I'm not too keen on this one to be honest, I mean it is okay but there are a few things I would have rather seen in this, I would have found it much funnier if he started to chew through the gum. I know that would also be kind of disgusting, lol, but it would have amused me personally which is all I'm thinking of here.

The ending is also kind of bleh to me, I was expecting him to crash into something or someone, like one of the girls who has appeared in some of your other flash, that might have been a bit more amusing. Those are just my ideas anyway, this is okay and the timing of the ending is good, so nice work on that, also you have the hand joke in this again, which is clever to see, just don't over use it.

4/5

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Jimtopia responds:

Let me just say that this one in particular I didn't think through, and as a result I can tell that it suffered a bit, and on some of your points I agree. The reason I didn't have Jim chew the gum though, is because he doesn't have a mouth, and it would have been difficult to show what he's doing. I also didn't want this to end up too much like RTIL's cartoon "GUM" (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/vie w/381169).

Concerning the ending, to use an old saying, I "wrote myself into a corner." I made this flash as I went along, and when you do that, you're not really focusing on the ending, you're focusing on making it funny wherever you're at in the animation. Looking back now, I regret having not thought through it before I did the flash (at least) but hey, you win some, you lose some.

I admit that I kind of dropped the ball on this one. I'll make sure not to let that happen again.

~Jimtopia

[asdfmovie]

Lol, Nice

That was pretty amusing, although somewhat short overall, I would have liked to have seen a few more or some that took longer. I mean all the shorts are nice and everything, just I feel more would have been nice. Some of them seemed to be funnier than others, some I just didn't really get, but eh, that's just me, lol.

The drawing style and animation style of this is very good and I did like that quite a bit, the voice acting was great, no problems with that and the music you used in this was also pretty good to. So good quality sound and decent drawing, no other problems overall other than the length of the whole thing, maybe you can make another in future.

4/5

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[Edible Castle #9]

Oh no!

Episode 10 can't go missing at this moment in time! Ahaha, anyway, that seems like a pretty well planned and thought out event for the series which is pretty good to have, some participation. Would be good to see episode 10 returned as soon as possible though, with all this build up and everything.

Anyway, the actual flash here as with all the others has some very good drawings to them, I like the style of these, also the sound effects being done with a voice is amusing, much better than actually using the sound. Good voice acting and some pretty good jokes, a few I wasn't too keen on here though, most where okay.

Overall, I thought this was a good animation, plot wasn't as good as some previous ones though, if you involved the audiance infront of the stage in this a little more, it would have been nice. The bottle being thrown was good though.

5/5

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[Tom & the Afro-Ninja Sigs]

Lol

That's actually pretty amusing, the sig creation at the start of this on the preloader was a good idea for those who want one. Though I am a little disappointed by the lack of letters you allow, it only goes up to 5 on the first set so I couldn't put "Little" in it, raise it to 6, lol. Anyway, the designs on that where good although lacked pink hair.

The preloader dress up thing aside, the actual flash was also pretty good, although I'm not keen on how you didn't give them teeth in the mouth movement, I really think that would have looked better. The graphics and animation to this are pretty good as well as some amusing jokes to this, some not so funny to me but eh. The voice acting and audio was done very well here, good work overall.

5/5

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Kart-Man responds:

Thanks for the review! Aw, fine, I'll raise it to 6 letters.

As for the lipsync, it's a bit of a habit for me. :P Plus, the teeth would have taken a lot more time, which I didn't really have too much of. I wanted to put this out as close to Comic-Con as I could get to maximize its effectiveness.

Thanks again. <3

[Newgrounds: A History]

Okay

Not really anything special in terms of looks of this, I think it would have been much better if you had used screenshots of the year you where talking about insted of using a modern one, kind of gives the wrong impression, also I would say that you missed out the part of the major redesign in 2007 which was a huge part of Newgrounds.

There is so much more information you could put into this, a lot that is left out I think, quite a lot has happend on the site. As well as Ross leaving again this year, so yeah, missing quite a bit. But some decent info there and the narration was good, just need to improve on the visual content and add a bit more history, even catagorise it if you could.

2/5

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Insanimation responds:

Well, about the screenshots: couldn't find any of teh right ones, simple as that...

And about the missed history: I was working from the History page, which hasn't been updated since 2006...and I joined at the end of April this year(I think it might have even been Pico Day), so I don't know very much about the history other than what is written..

Anyway, thanks for the review!

[Do you have a waffle]

Pretty Neat

Well I thought the singing for this was done pretty well and a lot of the animation in this was good but some of it seemed to be slow so I wasn't too keen on that because it looked kind of laggy. Other than the slow parts though, the animation seemed very good and the artwork was also very well done for much of this which is great.

The lyrics to the song really came together pretty well I thought, kind of amusing for much part, as well as fitting in with the animation very well. Quality of the audio was good and it looped very well. Nice work overall on this, only think I didn't like was the slower parts, nice job.

4/5

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[Ruptonia Trailer]

Okay

Well your drawings could use some work, the needless head movments seem kind of pointless too, you don't really need to animate that, just looks kind of silly to me. Some of the drawings look okay, others do need some work, but none of them really look disgustingly bad, so yeah. The story to this seems okay but you do need to find a way to explain who the enemy is to the viewer I think.

The sound effects are pretty good, the voice acting is somewhat clear but could do with more work to give more charator to the soldiors. Also for the interactive part, which was a good idea, I only found what to click by pressing tab, you might want to make that a little easier to find, also make the retry part go to that scene, lol. Otherwise, pretty decent work, just needs a few improvments.

3/5

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= Review Request Club =

[Hay Wars]

Okay

It seems to be kind of odd in a way, there doesn't seem to be too much point shown in the whole thing, no real build up or anything, some opening diolog between the two people being filmed would have been good to see and not really starting right into shooting. The shooting animation is decent and does seem to look like it's coming from the guns which is good.

The ending is probably the funniest part about this I have to say, much of the rest just seems more like a silly video, so I'm not really so keen on those parts, they where kind of lacking in my view. But otherwise, everything else here seemed to be fine, just need to expand the idea a little more I think.

3/5

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= Review Request Club =

Fro responds:

I really can't expand the idea when the idea was for us to shoot at each other for a little bit and then that's it, meaning the whole point of the flash was there wasn't a point in the flash. Who exactly said there had to be a point? If there was then well over half of the flashes on newgrounds wouldn't be here.

Oh and the lasers were actually coming from the gun, they were real. But seriously I give credit to my friend for doing the laser parts because you have to draw each individual laser and then draw where it's going to end up and draw every where in between. That takes awhile and there isn't any short cuts.

There probably won't be another one of these unless I personally get my own camera, which I might be getting and then I will put together something, but honestly it can't be too big because you saw how short this was and it still took up 5 MB. It seems like live action takes up more space then animation. I rather stick to shorts like this, but maybe put a story line into the next ones and make a series. Again, that probably won't be done. My friend is actually coming over tonight and we are making a new movie, but sadly it won't have any animation in it except for the menu will. It's not a starwars movie either.

Thanks for the review.

[Jim Day 08]

Alright

I think this was done pretty well, the loose hands seemed to come in handy with this flash, it seems to work with the fridge joke, that was kind of amusing I must say. The graphics here are much better than some of your older works which is good although some things still need work like the door and not using as many gradients, lol. Otherwise pretty good work on that part.

The voice acting I thought was actually done pretty well, especilly if you did the falling noises without actually falling, lol. So good work on that, there where some pretty amusing parts to this, nothing that was really a real laugh but still fun to watch and everything seemed to be thought out pretty well.

5/5

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[Knife Shorts 1]

Not Great

I wasn't too keen on this, I mean I can see what you are trying to do here and people have done it before, but I don't think this really came together too well. The blood just looks like a thick brush with the colour red, I know it might take longer to add shading on each frame, but it would look much better than just a solid red colour that you have here.

The first stick figure too looked very deformed, need to work on the art there a bit, much of the animation inline with the video though did seem to be well timed which is good, so nice work on that. The audio was okay, easy to hear and everything, no problems there. Overall, you have an idea but I think it needs more work.

2/5

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= Review Request Club =

SCUMBALL responds:

I know about the blood, but it was my first attempt at frame by frame, and I have learned a lot by then, I can actually draw real people getting stabbed now, isn't that great, more violence for the world, just what we need :).

Thanks for the review!