Bezman's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Nintendo Polka]

you needed to incorporate more wacky ideas

++ a few parts made me smile. Magikoopa singing with the squeaky voice, for example.

---- Some of the movie was kinda dull.

--- Stretched/squashed/skewed sprites look pretty bad, generally.

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For what it was, I felt you needed to incorporate more wacky ideas.

Or maybe you could have turned it into a Nintendo homage, simply incorporating more games.

[The Thwomps 2]

An interesting idea, delivered reasonably well.

+++ Lots of jokes packed into the main movie.

-- I'm not too keen on the easter eggs. I like the 2 fuller songs, but you've used them without adding any visual interest.

++ Quality voice for the deeper-voiced thwomp.

-- I felt the other thwomp could have more personality to his voice.

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I quite liked the main movie. An interesting idea, delivered reasonably well.

Nicely done, man. Keep up the quality work!

[Orlando's Joint #4]

Typical American sit-com standard.

-- Some parts seemed hard to follow or understand. Like kwasi and his incense sticks.

+ The girl kinda fits in better with the straight-lined bgs, with the more consistent line weight on her face. I still think you should maybe just delete all lined on the bgs though.

++ The setup with Orlando's sister (?) is interesting.

--- I'm not too keen on your characters generally.

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I'll watch the next episode if I happen to notice it. But I don't have high hopes.

Typical American sit-com standard.

[Orlando's Joint #3]

Well, I laughed, so props for that.

++++ Made me laugh! I wasn't expecting that. I chortled at the concept of Bumpy coming back as he did and I faintly chuckled at the end.

-- Kinda slow/predictable in places. The phone gag has been done too many times before.

-- I really don't like the straight-lined buildings in the background. Maybe if you deleted all the lines, or didn't use the line tool to draw them I'd prefer it.

++ I kinda like the scene at the start, where he's questioning why Bumpy would leave him the joint.

-- The characters still feel a bit flat though. I feel as if they should be questioning stuff, like the death, more than they do. Actually, that's maybe my biggest quibble re: character behaviour.

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Well, I laughed, so props for that. But some other areas of the writing seemed not so good.

[Orlando's Joint #2]

haven't really gotten any laughs

---- Some parts in the story seem to be silly (in a bad way). I don't like the way that they're not treating Bumpy like a person at all. And the way the lawyer just comes up in the street and gives them the contract then and there.

--- Didn't make me laugh.

- The characters are a bit static when on-screen

++ I like the art for the characters

- Not so much art for buildings at start.

++ funky music

+++ Great font

- The voices could maybe be a bit more expressive - like when Orlando's saying he can't run the joint.

++ For the most part though, the lines are fairly well read. Great recording.

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I put this on a par with some American sit-coms. I'm mildly curious to see where it goes, but haven't really gotten any laughs and don't expect any.

[Orlando's Joint #1]

Interested to see where it goes.

++ I don't like the art style, with the thin lines and the flat colours etc. It kinda irked me at the start with the buildings.

---- Not much in the way of laughs.

+++ the characters seem kinda interesting though and it all has potential.

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I think you could work better jokes in this. I'll wait and see how the characters/story develop.

[Frozen Out There]

long periods of being dull

-- Kinda slow in places

- The ending's hard to follow... so the rabbit had just been telling the fox about his daydream? You could've introduced that more graciously.

--- It's all kinda predictable.

--- There could be a lot more silly stuff going on during the songs to elevate them above the status of poor copies of poor material.

++ Some nice graphics.

++ The missiles being dropped by the bird made me chuckle slightly.

++ Nice voices.

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I didn't much care for it. A slight chuckle, a couple of smiles, but long periods of being dull.

The voice-acting and some nice animation shows talent, but I didn't much care for the writing.

[The Lonesome Boatman]

rests in your mind

++ The water at the start does look fantastic. Is it made up using photos?

- Some vectors aren't so great. I thought the hands looked kinda flat and didn't like the way the bottle looks in the water all that much.

+++ Beautiful music. Evocative.

++ Some nice colours.

----- I felt the ending was really unsatisfying.

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It is a haunting piece. Having read your author's comments, I do start to wonder about the little character. Questions flitter about.

Maybe one of those movies that rests in your mind and grows into something more than it was on-screen. A simple feeling evoked grows into a fuller story.

PapaQ responds:

Yeah, the water's made up using 2 wave images at a low alpha, moving against eachother over a sea gradient background.
Let it grow...