Un-J's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[SALSA!]

Pico Pico!

It's a shame, i really love animuations, but this one seems a bit underdone. The main fault is too much repitition and not enough interesting things happening on the screen.

Well, for an animutation, it's a mixed bag. Some new amusing characters within the cartoon, but also some overdone things. We've all seen Bush and Osama in flash cartoons done to death and they are repeated far too much or are on the screen far too long. The funnier jokes are repeated too much as well.

either way, it looks like you were just tinkering, i'd like to see what other stuff you might come out in the future, just try to mix it up a bit more. :)

Joxa responds:

SEE my later work please. its much better.

[Mario Brothers - Part IV]

Too Serious.

Most people seem to be into this a lot, i can see the draw, but i find it more akward then not.
Anyways, for the basic review.

Graphics:
Basic mario graphics with nice touches here and there. Looks quite Mario-y. But it's missing some Mario Characters! Where's the buzzy beetles. etc.

Sound:
Nice sound. Works well. Plus classic mario sounds. fine and done. Water music at the end is a bit out of theme.

Interactivity.
Has a play button. and a scene selection. could use a pause and play button during the show.

Style:
Now this is the part that bugs me a bit. The story is just a bit too cheezy. I mean, Mario is a kids game and you are giving it an overtly self-indulgent theme that really doesn't suit the Mario theme, making it seem a bit too queazy at times like some bad Fan Fiction for their favourite anime. Most won't follow this hear, and critizise me. But it just wasn't fun for me. Either way, it's more original but it doesn't work well as a whole.

Humor:
Not intended to be funny, but at the great lengths you are making to make this a "deep serious film", it's over-bearingness makes it amusing.

Phantasmagoria-crow responds:

I like to think I gave people the option to either look at it as a serious tragedy, or as a spoofish dramatic interpretation of what Mario could be about. But I in no way intended the series to be completely serious. Personally when I watch them, I laugh...

[Miko Miko NURSE!]

Fast!

Well, on going to create a very fast animutation-esque kind of cartoon, it was well done like most all of your animations.

However, for one complaint it appears that you are having way too much re-using of characters, from your previous animations, You should mix it up a bit more! Otherwise, this is one of the funnest animutations i've seen in a bit. It's cute, keep them coming! We don't see enough from you.

Dwedit responds:

You're definatly right there, I'll try to re-use less stuff from now on. Although this one was a throwtogether, like Darkwing Duck.

[For What little it matter]

Gothic Romance that needs more background

A nice change from the average "blood/drug/nudity" and "mario" combo of most cartoons on this site.

Graphics
The graphics in this cartoon are fairly well done and suit the scenery, i know it's hard but seeing how the arms are just blocks when they are transparent takes away from the otherwise fine drawings in the cartoon

Sound
The sound quality is fine, i can't say i'm a third eye blind fan but i don't think you are either ;). Regardless, oh and mildly amusing shameless plugs for nine inch nail, but why not add actual posters of the group up to support it?

Style
It's a cute story, but it's seemingly more of teenage angst of relationships then a love story. I mean, why are they apart at the begining? it's confusing, i mean they enjoyed each other so much. In one of your transparent flash back scenes it would have been more plot saked if you saw why they broke up in their transparencyness of them all.

Violence
Doesn't really need it. wooh~ N/A

Humor
N/A, unless you consider shameless plugs for NIN filler.

overall a good film, i'd be interested to see more of your work later to see how it develops.

Dark-Boy responds:

Lol because I could'nt find any decent NIN posters and would'nt look horrable in small format..and theres a more personal side to the fact I used it more then once(its a long story lol)..I left the plot open to generalize the message..I beleave 50% of this peice is i wanted to relate it to ppl without going too much in ruff detail..everyone has there own reasons for breaking up with there gf/bf, or how they got dumped.. so i did'nt wnat an elabrate story to back it..no its not lazyness lol..it just in the presintation.THank you very much for your input man.

[KN: UnRad Ninja 1 [-OLD-]]

Hmm. . . .

Well, this one had promise at the begining. But once again, i don't see the enjoyment of fart jokes being used that often, it's grade school humor that just isn't funny on any level anymore, especially in this context.

The animation was smooth and the sprites all seemd in working order but you added needless gore, i don't see much humor once again in taking a moderately cute character and tearing them from limb to limb.

You have the talent, i think you can do better then this.

Sorry, just giving you a slice of this all.

AcidX responds:

K, first off, about the sprites, Acutally I did rip them. I was too late to get the .fla for a start, I've got the sprites stored in a folder on my Hard Drive
So... Hah!
And if you're really bored, you can stop the animation whilst it's playing, and compare my edited sprites, and normal ripped ones to those at VGDC, and you will see that mine are different in colour and edited differently... So Hah.... Again

As for the guy saying there wasn't enough violence:
Yes, there was, the violence was excessive, but you were after action, I understand yes, but still. You were wrong.
The guy who asked how I could take cute characters and tear them apart:
I advise you shut up.
The guy who was actually half normal and said that parodies like this aren't meant to have a plot:
GOOD MAN! YOU UNDERSTAND! WELL DONE!!!
You see, the game Kid Niki didn't have much of a plot anyway, a kid without ninja powers... But he was a ninja. o_O Indeed.

Kk Peace out.
AcidX