Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[I Like My Women Inbred]

About average, I'd say.

The animation, song and single joke that was repeated seemed about average to me, but then most folk don't use their own music so I'll give you an extra point for that.

Maybe it's just that I'm coming from your 2nd animation (which should be better - it's your 2nd!) but whilst the character designs are fairly nice (as is the art) the joke (which I personally find a bit flimsy) and animation let it down somewhat.

Rather than have a black stripe behind subtitles, you could have another instance of the text, modified to be black and offset by a few pixels. (large shadow). That would surely ensure it could be read at all times, and yetwould still allow you to show graphics behind the subtitles.

I went to your site to hear the newer version of this song, but the site didn't load.

[Bob the Ball]

Brilliant style.

Although I've seen a couple of other attempts at it, no-one's been as successful in making a mock-children's story with depraved material.

Your voice is excellent as is the simple tune you've used. I loved the way you played a version of the same song at the end, but with distortion added.

I liked the wee asides (Billy's father, Bees, fun fact) and the whole thing made me smile.

Well done on making such an excellent piece of entertainment and thanks for sharing it with us. :)

P.S. Since you asked - yep, I found the 'easter egg'.

mlaskaris responds:

Thanks for the excellent review!

I'm glad somebody noticed that the credits music was actually a punk/metal version of the background theme. I actually wrote the song on guitar and had to "translate" it to keyboard. I'm going to do something musically similar to that in Episode 2.

-mlaskaris

[Metroid: Project K]

The intro is better than the actual movie imo.

The movie overall looked rather nice and fairly stylish, but its major failing was the lack of any plot. (Also, I had a wee bit of difficulty understanding what exactly was going on at points.

The text at the start was excellent (althought the I and D look a bit dissimilar to those letters) and the metroid fading in and metroid outlines all gave a really good first impression.

I liked the anfular lines and pseudo-cell shading and samus was drawn rather nicely.

The brown thing, which I presume was supposed to be a planet wasn't convinving at all and neither was samus' animation when walking towards the camera.

Also, some of the backgrounds (particularly the one with the broken glass tube) seemed really lacking in detail. I wouldn't have realised the dead bodies were meant to be that if I hadn't read your lone response.

Now I understand what's going on, I can appreciate the movie as a decent effort but maybe one that was a bit rushed.

[The Bus Stop]

Ow...

This made me giggle, which in itself is an achievement.

The lovely animation, appealing colours and nice music are by the by.

toxicbomb responds:

yay!

[Just Because It's Clay]

Enjoyable enough while it lasts.

The music is excellent and the morphing clay is a treat to behold.

I was a bit dismayed to see that the 'teaser screen' has little to do with the movie - I was expecting them to maybe turn into fully fledged things with arms, heads and facial features.

However, watching it a 2nd time, I realised that what you'd done was fairly enjoyable to watch in its own right.

I didn't realise during my last review that you had made both 'Clay needs tea' and 'WT and then some'. You've definitely progressed with your claymation.

Whatever you do, I urge you to keep going and keep your zany humour and excellent voices in your animation.

DrNeroCF responds:

well thanks, does that mean I'm getting that review of bubble wrap now? hehe

[Clay Needs Tea (The Best)]

Groovy little thing.

The soundtrack was excellent for both its other-worldliness and the fact that each of the 3 samples captured the current mood nearly perfectly.

The guys were simple but nice to look at and the knife-slashing bit was truly excellent.

The part where red is walking around the table looked a bit shoddy though - he was sorta gliding rather than walking.

My main gripe was that throughout most of its length, it seemed too derivative. The backstory is rather funny, but you could have carried on with your zany humour into the actual animations and yet didn't... why?

Still, it's excellent. You've obviously got da skillz. Now keep refining them!

[WT, then some (Clay)]

Brilliant

From the opening shot, shown while the movie loads, I thought that this may well be more than the average claymation movie.

With more imaginative jokes, a better 'plot' and better selection of music than the average claymation, this stands above the crowd.

The voices were really excellent. I liked the models you made too, although the features didn't really come across in the movie. Maybe using different colours of clay would be the next step?

I wasn't too keen on the way the sword-fighting was sort of dragged in with only a hint of an excuse, but the resulting animation was rather lovely to look at.

Still, maybe an accompanying battle-cry to show the red-guy's anger would have made it slightly better?

In any case, I really enjoyed watching it and will heartily reccommend it to others.

DrNeroCF responds:

thanks for the awesome review! I hope you'll go review my latest, bubble wrap, too, speaking of battle cry... heh