Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[nightShift: a true story]

A well-told amusing joke.

It's not a visual masterpiece as with your Brackenwood animations, but the whole thing is nicely animated and nice to look at. I'd be proud of it, and for myself and many others, it would be a best animation.

The direction is good, with some interesting angles helping to convey the boring, tiring nature of the work, without being too tiring itself.

The joke itself is delivered well and although it didn't make me laugh, it certainly amused. The voice-acting was great too and I found the gurgling amusing aswell.

Top work!

[One Ring to Rule ThemAll3]

Actually boring.

I have previously really enjoyed a few of your animations, but this just wasn't that funny at all. I chuckled at the audio clip at the end, but nothing else really tickled my ribs.

Having well-known character behaving in a different manner to usual, having the evil guy slightly pathetic etc. is amusing, but not enough of a joke on its own to have as a whole animation. There were a few gags, but they came once every 30s, if that, interspersed by a long sequence that held no surprises or delights.

It was all really predictable and after a minute or so, I was getting really tired and wondered if it was worth leaving the window open and watching the rest or if I should click off now.

Of course, we both know you don't give a shit about this review, so I'll stop now.

[Incompetent Chivalry]

Funny, gripping and a little touching.

This animation is awesome. There were moments that genuinely made me laugh out loud (an overused phrase on the internet) and also feel a bit of empathy with the characters.

The animation was simplistic, but it had a nice style and was pleasing to the eye. A constant style was maintained and some movements were great. I loved the way you showed shafts of light and the opening 2 scenes were specially lovely.

The voices were wonderful too, with a sort of cockney accent proving fitting and the other voices all also fitting the characters perfectly and with real emotion behind words, coming short of overacting.

The tunes were great - making a nice aural backdrop, they never dominated the animation but set the moods perfectly.

Overall it was a damn fine piece and I have no real criticisms to make.

Just maybe that I thought the king's beating went on a second longer than I'd have liked and that some of the character art could have been better. The close-up of the jester didn't look too nice and the full-view of the knight was drawn in a slightly different style, with thinner lines. Also, maybe a little shading throughout would have been funky.

However, I'm really searching for faults.

Great work!
-Bez

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My favourite parts were the insane pig/boy scene, the man running into the wall and the look of the boy and the rabbit when facing the dragon. Those made me chuckle, in the case of the pig slapping, give a hearty belly-laugh.

I also loved the slightly unexpected sad ending.

The animation of the horse running bit was lovely and the background as he ran with the pig also wonderful.

The quote at the end (is it a quote?) was nicely fitting and gave a little gravity to the situation.

[Todd & Dan - Dating Shows]

Vaguely amusing. Made me smile.

Couldn't understand some of the lines. Subtitles may be good. Also, maybe having the camera change would be funky. Then again, the static camera did have its own charm, helping to generate the feeling of observational humour.

Just do the subtitles. Optional if you can.

Then maybe I'd chuckle

[Phantasmagoria 3:Rebirth]

Great!

'Stereovisionary' and 'The Happy Sheep' managed to do a great job of bringing about the idea of reincarnation, with a blue scribble or a halo representing the life force.

_Black_Mage_ did a good job of dealing with the subject in a humorous manner.

If all (or most of) the entries had had a similar life-force symbol at the start and end, it may have been more convincing that they were being reincarnated.

As it was though, it was a great piece of work and everyone did a great job.

I miss the random craziness, but this was great in a different way.

A couple made me chuckle and it certainly kept my interest all the way through.

I loved the various styles all being brought together.

Top stuff!

SeizureDog responds:

Thanks Bez :)

(not much else to say)

[Phantasmagoria 2:Avatar]

Funky, but away from what the series used to be...

I think this one has too many longer animations - it loses some of the hyperactive craziness that made 7 and 8 so awesome.

It's a funky watch though, with 'Happy Sheep' making me chuckle and a few others proving entertaining.

However, when something's as long as some here, a couple you don't like /that/ much can bring it down, whereas one or even two you don't like in a shorter format would simply be adding to the variety of styles and wouldn't detract too much from the humour of others.

SeizureDog responds:

Well, 7 and 8 were (near) solo projects though. And lot of people didn't like how short it was. The Phants were meant to be based of the #s, and I orginially was thinking that people would follow that example (hey, they are easier to make that way) but to my surprise I ended up getting longer entries. And thus it evolved.

[Phantasmagoria]

Great work, but some slightly too long...

Xas Intro - nicely done with great graphics. a bit long for my tastes without much humour or anything though. Blurred cars were really nice.

Adrenalin Rush v.2 - would hve been better at the end. Fairly funky as an interlude though.

Slam It - excellent animation. Nice work.

Distorted Reality - funny ending.

stLoop1 - excellent. Nicely different style. Like cut-outs. Almost like a political work.

SBC King of the Portal - nicely amusing.

lil loop mix 7 - made me laugh!

Confrountation - great. random. funny stuff.

fucking scream - brilliant for this style

Mommy, I've looked everywhere - top stuff.

Industry - really nice style. I'd say this may be a bit too long too and though I really enjoyed it and the sad mood, may be better on its own... then again, it's funky in here...

Desperate Hope - nicely fitting with the song title. ;-)

All in all, it's a top idea, though I feel you should maybe shorten some of the works, maybe have a limit of 15s or something.

great work though and the first collaboration is a great watch.

SeizureDog responds:

I'm just going to say thanks. Ok? Ok

["7"]

Great!

The art was definitely better here, and Lavagasm's fbf is wonderful.

The bits of text were a nice wee change and the font (or did you draw it?) at the end is awesome.

Liked some of the styles. Li'l piper was probably my favourite bit, as it did something I wasn't expecting.

Didn't actually make me laugh this one, although it did make me smile.

For that reason, whilst the art is better and there's more variety thanks to the text, it scores the same, thanks to the lesser humour.

Looking forward to seeing more of these! I'll check out the BBS link.

Stay funky,
Bez

SeizureDog responds:

I didn't draw that text. It's called NerveTonic I think.

Hehe, everyone loves the little flute elf ^_^

At least you smiled :) Smiling is good :D

Wait, there's a BBS link? o_O [Confused]

["8"]

Qulity stuff, in a style of its own!

Sorta reminds me of 'Wario Ware' a bit for obvious reasons.

In a way, short songs get more exposure when used as loops - I mean, that way you guarantee a viewer will hear them multiple times.

I really liked the one with the peas - really made me chuckle. And I liked the way the hip-hop one was a sorta joke, as was the DevilClock one. I didn't realise DC was controlling the plane on the first watch though.

In any case, it's different enough to be interesting and short enough that one chuckle is good value for my time.

I'd just prefer if you made them all a tiny joke/story, but then that would be too much for you, probably...

SeizureDog responds:

I been wanting to play that game...

Yeah, as loops they do get that. But then I wouldn't be able to use as many now would I? Exposing a lot of songs a little bit rather than one song a lot.