Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Frame Experiment]

or minimal bg would be

+++ Art style. I like the minimalistic style. It lets us use our minds to fill in the blanks.

- The hands are a bit too 'blobby' for my tastes though.

-- On a few frames, it looks like you forgot to draw the feet.

+++++ I really like animations all about mutations and morphing.

--- But when the red thing changed, nothing all that interesting came about. You could have maybe had him using the red thing to overcome some obstacles, or maybe the red things start to put him in danger... it seems like you didn't bother thinking of anything particularly interesting, but just thought, ah, I'll show x, then I'll show x2, x3, x4 and so on...

+++ Awesome animation. Realistic movement.

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Love the animation. Maybe some texture or minimal bg would be cool.

[Happy Happy Joy Joy]

Almost chuckled at some points.

+++ I love the way you guys use the clock-face to express emotion.

-- You could have brought in more variation and had more things going on.

+ Though not part of the movie, I like that you mentioned the original and had a link in the comments.

overall: I smiled at this. Almost chuckled at some points.

[Pursuasion]

if instead of

+++ Liked the style of the graphics in some ways. I like simplified stuff.
I assume though they were traced?

-- Though when we see the girl's face, it doesn't fit so well. Also, I'm not too keen on when we see her boot... I just prefer it when you have the outline and nothing else, I guess.

+++ I like the ending of the story. A short twist. Slightly predictable but well delivered.

++++ Sounds are great. Fit well. Make the atmosphere you're after.

++ Short and sweet.

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Really cool story. I think the graphics could be nicer though. Maybe if instead of just tracing round the lines, you used the white to pick up highlights, you could get some nice effects...

[DoubleWide - Episode 1]

Something of a

Watched it once through. Smiled at parts.

+++ I liked the characterisation in the voices.

- There were a few bits I couldn't make out. Crazy yank voices.

-- The animation seemed a bit slow and very limited.

+++ I liked the gfx. I liked the way you drew the characters, specially Bonita's arms.

--- It kinda seemed to drag. I think you could've fitted more jokes in or cut some parts to make for a more enjoyable experience.

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I liked the art, but it all seemed too slow. Something of a dull drive.

[God & The Scientists]

and to the

Watched a couple of times. (2nd to make this a 'valid' review.) Vaguely smiled at the punchline.

++++ Nice script font.

+++ Decent drawings.

- Tweened zoom is shoddy - they move in relation to the ground whilst standing still.

-- The tweened arm isn't too good.

++ Decent expressions.

+++ The way he says god can bugger off made me smile.

- The way the camera moved up to the sky as one guy said he wasn't going to talk to him either made me think it was God who was talking there.

+++ punchline was interesting.

++ Short and to the point.

Stay funky,
- Bez

[Modern Art]

It made me

Watched it through. Smiled a little.

+ nice logo on pre-loader.

- Why should we have to press 'play' 2x?

--- 2nd button is buggered. In the 'hitbox' frame of the button, that's what the user needs to be on, to be able to click. So make the hitbox a largish rectangle, bigger than the text.

++ Nice gfx for the squirrel. Interesting shapes with nice highlights.

- Though I don't understand the need for the Christmas theme. It just makes it seem inappropriate at other times of year. It's not exactly Christmassy or anything...

--- I didn't find the joke that funny.
I actually find myself wondering though - is that green stuff meant to be diorrhea? Green? Odd...

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It made me feel little. The button aggravated me though. You lose a mark overall for that.

Sk8erGirl14 responds:

the x-mas music was cause I released the movie around x-mas time...

yeah, you got some good points...all of which have been noted and future works will be more friendly :)

yeah, the joke is that so called "modern art" is crap... or that anyone can be a "modern artist" these days :/

[Ugly Katamari]

combo that made

++++ funny music

++++ Some interesting objects on the katamari.

++ Short - the joke isn't over-extended.

Not much to criticise. It is what it is. However...

- There could be more ingenious/amusing objects attached. Maybe Cartman's mom with a big dildo?

-/2 There could be more detail to the gfx...

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Made me chuckle. The song's probably funnier than the gfx. Though it was the combo that made me chuckle.

[Wake Me Up at E3]

I don't think

Watched it once. Just a quick review.

++++ I do like the tune. Btw, did you replay all the music yourselves? It's really well played...

+++ You covered most the important points... worked in the lyrics fairly well.

- Really limited animation for the most part. The instrumental part was kinda visually dull.

+ I liked the style of the silhouette part.

+ The dude with the triangle - kinda funny.
Though I'd have found it even funnier if you'd shown him hitting the triangle right at the end.
Maybe you could have had more expressions for him. It'd have been funnier if he'd looked really uncomfortable with the camera being on him, looking away, fidgeting with his other hand...

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Slightly amusing, but I don't think I'll watch it again.

Made me smile slightly.

[Drink Drank Drunk]

the song. Gfx

Watched it through... just wanted to say...

+++++ Bobby has a really awesome voice.

+++++ The melody, combined with the way it's being sang and everything makes for a nice 'sound'. It pleases my ears.

--- Didn't actually make me laugh.

- Kinda sucky graphics. They explore the meaning of the lyrics, but don't really offer any story, jokes, or much added info of their own (other than the bit where it said 'pussy'). Also, some technically better drawings would have been nice.

-- I actually got kinda tired of the whole thing near the end. Probably due to the simple gfx combined with the meandering audio.

I kinda liked the way the end was done, though it didn't make me chuckle as you wanted. Maybe if the 'mehhhhahhhhh' lasted longer, I'd find it funnier. Or maybe if I heard Bobby puking.

Though I enjoyed the way the song was sung, for the cartoon's purposes, I think maybe a more constant rhythm might've been even better in some ways. I know it's your thing and it's cool, but maybe if it sounded more like an upbeat drunken song than a downbeat drunken song, I might've enjoyed it a lot more.

I actually think a version of this song, sped up and sung to the tempo of something like The Pogues' "Irish Rover" would be a crazy thing to hear.

Any chance of that happening?

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You may not care what I think, seeing as I've drunk on only one occasion since New Year's.

But I essentially quite enjoyed the song. Gfx let it down imo.

[Pixelated: Ep. 2]

went into it, but the

----- Really - it started to drag at points. So much of the b+w section was predictable and I was quite disappointed when what I originally imagined would be a quick flashback turned into the whole episode.

--- The drawn mouths and pixellated bodies/heads/eyes/nose don't go too well in my opinion.

++ The end 'Oh, I can't stay mad at you' made me smile.

+++ Voices are all clear and fairly well acted.

overall
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Kinda dull. Obviously a lot of effort went into it, but the humour's just not to my tastes.

AlexTraynor responds:

Thanks for watching the whole thing and not being a dick in your review.