Compdude's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ben Spurgin's Demo Reel]

Mmm... Eye candy.

Nothing like sweets for the eyes. Hey, not EVERY movie has to have an elaborate plot and humorous wisecracks. Sometimes it's just nice to sit back, turn your brain off and just let your eyes take it in. This movie is nothing more than a collection of visualually pleasing clips from this guy's previous movies, which is just fine in my book. Mmm... eye candy.

[DFL: Short Order - Sushi]

Haste makes waste.

More hilarious, well-drawn, well-scripted fun with Taco the Octopus, but I really thought it was WAY too short to be very enjoyable. Considering your other two entreis are at leat five minutes in length, this 20-second vignette rushes too quickly, and is over so fast you wonder if you just got mugged or something. A second viewing confirmed the movie's extreme shortness. So, good stuff, but if you're gonna make something, give it some length!

[Mario Ball Z *fix*]

Creative idea!!

Cute idea! I'm a big DBZ fan, and a big Mario fan, so this was a real treat. Very creative idea, I doubt anyone's thought of this before. Kudos for the transformation to "Super Mario" - I guess that even makes sense! Anyhow, good idea, but the movie itself's a bit crappy graphic-wise. Still, nice job! How creative!

[Mario The Mack Daddy]

Cute.

Cute. A nice little humble Mario Parody.

[The Stars]

It's...just....stars!

Yes, this looks very pretty, but it's....just....stars! There is no substance here! This is a good opening to a space movie, or a loader to a game, or a background for an action scene, but as it is, it's...JUST...STARS! Put this flash into something bigger man, because as it is, it's...just... well, you get the idea.

[Zero Wing]

Neato!

Hey, excellent job man. Sharp graphic style, excellent song choice, and an appropritatly Brukheimer-ish direction that gives it a definite turn-of-century feel. Definite 5 material and top-10 potential. Now, why you would want to base this all on a crappy, poorly-translated video game is the real mystery. I mean, yeah, the opening scene is good for spoofing, but I doubt a real story was ever intended for that game. Nor does it deserve one. You should've made a movie like this for the FF series, or Zelda, or some other story-rich series. Bottom line, good movie, bad game choice. But who am I to judge? All your movies are belong to us! ^_^

TFX responds:

Everyone asks me, "why Zero Wing?" And to them I reply, "I wanted to be original". Final Fantasy, Zelda, Mario, those have all been done over and over to death. Over in a far corner of obscurity we have a game that was totally neglected and laughed at because there were no high expectations for it.

I had high expectations . . . and I was disappointed. This is what _I_ was looking for.

[Worst Case Scenarios]

It slices, it dices.

For people like me who have ninja problems all the time, this can be a serious life-saver. But in all seriousness, this is a high quality movie. The scenarios are funny, the voices and animaion are clever, and the solutions are equally amusing. The only things I didn't like were the graphics, which looked a bit off, and the main victim guy. He just looked like a bad Burt Reynolds to me, and it was irritating. But beyond that, nice job! Original topic, execution, and style. Neato.

[kegel & keanu, j.lo, ally]

More wonderful Celebrity-bashing

Another Triumph! I tendeo like the Enrique Iglesias episode a bit better, but I also liked how this episode mercilessly picked upon those three annoying "actors". d tFour particualar highlights: Ally's chicken-peck-hen clucking (-brutal!) , JLo's.. ahem... "camel toe", the perfect emulation of Keanu's "whoa" type voice, and my personal fav: the obvious parody of the Challenger explosion, complete with ballooning explosion, arcing horns, that loopy curve on top and capsule falling to Earth. Excellent attention to detail and comedy. Only one question: what kind of dog IS Kegel? Odd looking thing, ain't he? ^_^

[Ghandi 2 FIXED!!!]

Unoriginal creation.

Dude, all you did was take a sound file off Napster/UHF and put it on a slide show presentation with black-holes for mouth movement. Yeah, the sound's funny, but it's not your creation, and what IS isn't all that impressive. Sorry, but better luck next time :)

HackerZC responds:

You know what, I;m sick of hearing all this shit about "all you did" "all you did"! Enough of it already! If you dont like it then you go out there and do it your damn self. Oh and I just watched your ONLY MOVIE, and it sucked too.

[No Ass Scratching (Final)]

I liked it!

Maybe not the best crap on the portal, but this is all right! First off, for stick figures, the animation and quality is pretty good. Secondly, the violence is well done, and third, it's funny! I mean, you got ass-scratching, scat-throwing, various ass-object beatings, and the spine-pulling, which was was both unexpected and hiarious. The opening was a bit overblown, and it IS sticks, but overall, not bad. Not bad at all!