mike's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Milo meets gravity]

Heh.

Little doggies (or whatever that is) getting hit by things = fun. Add some sound, it would be a lot better. Otherwise, you're off to a good start in Flash, so keep it up.

Janus-King responds:

Eight years late in response, but Cheers... :D

[Lunch Break]

Great!

THIS is what a good Portal movie is. Something so strange and cool that it is just awesome.

The art is great. The animation is good, too. The style of shading is awesome. It is obvious that a lot of work was put into it. 'Nuff said.

The sound is fairly adequate. Some more sound effects, like footsteps, for example, would have been cool. Or maybe even some music.

But that's not even the best part. This movie is so damn strange, I laughed the whole way through. Who the hell would make an animation about Lego men and call it "Lunch Break?"

Keep up the good work.

[The Final Task]

Incredible!

You can tell that there was tons of work put into this. This has "superb" written all over it. Absolutely awesome. The bar of good Flash animation has been raised.

The graphics themselves were excellent.. Just take a look at the close-up of the Samurai. Look at how well the hair is done and strewn across the face. But since the Samurai's face was pretty much the only thing that wasn't a silhouette, you couldn't really see much of his drawing skill.

The animation is where this short shines. It is absolutely amazing. Look at hall the characters' hair bounces when they fall from the jump. And the way the light reflected off the sword was awesome. I was really looking hard to find something wrong with the animation, and I couldn't find any bad mistakes. That gets a "wow" from me.

The sound was good. It wasn't as good as the other features of the movie, but it was extremely fitting. The only real complaint here is the music that plays at the end. It kind of ruined the mood.

And the "REPLAY" button at the end isn't done too well, but that's just nitpicking.

And what's with all the people complaining about lack of story? Why the hell must it have a story?It's a goddamn animation short, meant to be only a few minutes in length!

[Dragon Ball waZzup]

Funny, but bad animation

The characters in the movie are pretty obivously traced, which isn't a bad thing, but it leads to this movie's weak point: animation. The animation in this movie is very cheesy. The traced graphics probably made it extremely hard to animate, but that's one of the reasons why you don't trace stuff. :) Besides their mouths, the characters didn't move at all. And when they had holes blown through them, they just had a hole cut out of them with the eraser tool and a cheesy circular blood clip inserted. Come on! Give us some nice, flowing blood! The backgrounds were nice, also, but they would look tons better if they were shaded like the characters.

The sound is quite scrathcy at times, and the voices are kinda cheezy, but a great try on an impression. (Hell, I couldn't do any better.) The Japanese DBZ music made a nice touch. (I'm glad he didn't use the stupid synthesized American stuff. A 5 year old could play that stuff! :)

Another thing that bugged me was that the "Septi-Verse 3.0++ Presents" screen took too long. Even though it was real flashy and actually had better animation then the actual movie, at least make a way to skip it!

Despite it's weak points, it was pretty funny. It makes a good toss at the bad American dubs, and I laughed a couple of times. :)

[The Matrix Cinemargh]

Great Work and Style!

Hilarious! I love Razzo's art style! Nice use of gradients! Keep up the great work!