Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[time travel.]

impressed by the end

+++ Some great expressions. I like the furtive glance.

+++ Interesting scenario. That the dude wouldn't want to...

-- Nearly non-existent lip-synch.

--- Conclusion was rather weak and unsatisfying. If it was an advertisment, maybe give some examples of crazy things you could do with time travel? Maybe you could have shown his adventure?

==
Smiled for most of it, but I just wasn't too impressed by the end.

esspat responds:

are you kidding? my lipsync was awesome!

[Jesus Loves You (color)]

t's not half

++ Amusing that Jesus would do that...

+ well-suited font

- Repeating movie got annoying.

- rough-looking graphics

==
I don't think it really mocks Jesus or christianity all that much. Yeah, he'd never do that, according to the bible, but it's not half as offensive as I thought it'd be after reading the reviews.

A tiny giggle.

[Ten Reasons Flash Sucks]

it went down

+++ Amusing concept

--- Overly depressing voice.

--- poor animation/drawings get in way of humour.

-- Last point makes no sense.

--- Terrible buttons. Sort out the hitframe - draw a rectangle.

++++ End of commentary - 'I think I got my message out...' made me chuckle.

==
Enjoyed the first couple of reasons, but it went downhill and got kinda boring after that. Commentary made me grin though.

[Sentient Fish Rape 2]

short space

+++ Great starting screen, with lovely gradients, stars and shapes.

++ Pretense re: fish bitches. Amused.

++++ Awesome music, fitting each scene perfectly.

++++ Love how the fonts start kinda like a transitional classic style, then eventually becoming a decorative crazed thing as we get to the end.

==
I... have no real complaint to make of this movie. I felt it lacked the originality of the first, of course. Maybe I'd have liked to see the pumpkin guy on-screen a tiny bit longer.

Really, though, this movie does little, if anything, wrong. Packed full of jokes in such a short space of time. Details such as love hearts and the familiar girl are appreciated.

It may not have made me laugh much, but the movie is now scarily etched onto my mind. Forever.

[Sentient Fish Rape]

this ludicrous piece

+++ Clean and consistent graphical style.

+++ bizarre

+++ Great font. Carries the 'faux public service announcement' thing well.

- At the start, is the creature meant to be coming out the lake? You should maybe have the head coming out and some ripples or something. It's not entirely obvious.

==
Really, after watching this ludicrous piece of animation, my only reaction was to laugh, slightly nervously. Crazily memorable for sure.

[How Newgrounds Functions]

a reminder to us

++++ The idea of illustrating the cycle of hatred as a never-ending loop works brilliantly.

-- There is little reason for stick folk to lack voices, when so many stick movies are voiced. It kinda breaks up the flow a tad.

++++ Technically, it was practically flawlessly executed, with each element shrinking until it's just a few pixels.

- There is a slight increase in size before each zoom out and sometimes a small change in colour composition when stuff goes into the smallest window.

==
But these minor imperfections fail to detract from the amusing commentary that it serves as. Maybe not literally true, the flash serves both as a reminder to us all that we're no better than anyone else, and a quick giggle.

Genius idea.

Thanks for not extending it beyond what it is.

[Embryonic Adventures]

been some underlying

+++ Peaceful, funky tune.

++++ Division of self into polar opposites is a theme that captures the mind well.

++ Great use of masks and gradients when the eggs were pulsing.

+++ Lovely textures.

- Start was a tiny bit slow.

--- Horrible buttons. Seriously, use the 'hit' frame. Draw a rectangle there.

--- Basically, it all came to naught, with no real purpose nor a satisfying conclusion to the 'story'.

==
I'll assume that the embryos were killed and whilst I could read some bullshit in about how true good/evil just can't exist and will self-destruct, I seriously doubt there was any real message here.
I don't know - had there been some underlying message or theme, with a more satisfying conclusion, this might have been a spectacular piece to watch over and over, and reccommend to the world.

As it is, it's 'merely' an enjoyable, intriguing watch; and something that may well stick in my mind for yonks.

[PlumberMan 2]

expanding past one

+++ Chuckled at Superman - both appearance and happening.

+ Great Voice for Plumber Man.

--- Purple Ninja and the Ice Cream Guy both have too-young voices. If you can't make your voice sound older, maybe get someone else to voice-act for those parts?
Annoyed.

--- Not really empathising with PM.

--- lack of conclusion annoys.

==
I feel that since we don't know the character that well yet, it's a bit early to have fights expanding past one episode. I'm mildly curious to see the next episode, but the only part of this I particularly enjoyed was the Superman bit.

Fight and remaining jokes were kinda mediocre.

[PlumberMan 1]

has me

+++ Great voices.

++ Start (superman) made me chuckle.

++ I like the style of the comic intro.

+++ Amusing bios.

-- Though for static pictures, why no colour? You could have sweet bitmaps...

--- In flashback, baby's body size/shape keeps changing.

--- Loads of misspellings in character bios/subtitles. Worst is 'nefew' (should be 'nephew').

-- If we start the movie with the scene select, the music never ends.

==
Seems kinda like UVS with original characters. Much preferring this, with its lighthearted tone. Made me chuckle and has me vaguely interested in the characters.

Jonimator responds:

Yeah i like The Intro too, for the third though it's gonna be a bit different. I noticed the scene select quite a while ago actually but i was just lazy. |:)

This is actually based on my comics my friend and i made and came way before UVS. Anyway glad you liked it..

[Halloween Darkness]

bouncing in that red

++ rotating cube looks awesome.

++ Great music.

- Why doesn't the text 'play' play the animation? I think the hitframe should extend to there.

-- poor fence.

? Maybe the scene where the children transform should have a long shot after the transform?

==
Enjoyed watching, though it was a tad confusing on first watch. Never really explained where the box came from or whatever and some of the scenes are kinda random (like when it's bouncing in that red area).

I'd have liked even something as simple as the skeleton walking along at the start, before digging up the cube.