Compdude's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[LongCat's Song]

Decent!

Funny idea, and nice adaptation of the background song! It doesn't particularly stand out in my mind though, and some parts move kind of slowly. Still pretty good!

[Mindy Learns a Moral]

Good story!

Quite good! The story was definitely the highlight - compelling and cohesive, and although it took what seemed like an odd twist in the middle, it resolved in a satisfying manner. Plus, there was a good moral to it, and I honestly felt sad for the cast-out phone!

The animation was above average too. Special credit to the animorphic animation on the cell phones - that was quite believable.

The voices were a mixed bag; Mindy's was pretty good, but the rest were sort of generic, and the old phone sounded like an oddly distorted kid. Plus it was sort of odd to hear the old phone talk when it finally did - because up to that point you sort of accepted it as a silent character. Hearing a voice sort of "spoiled" that perception.

I also felt that once you were introduced to the other phones, it would have felt more believable if they had belonged to different people; sort of a "lost home" for discarded cell phones of the community. I couldn't really bite on the idea that all 200+ belonged to a single girl. Even though that was obviously done for comedic effect, it felt like a lost opportunity to explore a community of outcast phones from different backgrounds.

Maybe some more variety and "age" shown between the cell phones would have worked better too - they all sort of looked the same. I suppose that was sort of the point (there was no need to upgrade the phones when they all are basically the same model), but a little differentiation between phones, showing age differences, would have worked nicely.

The plot twist is a bit confusing at first too, because first you think the phone belongs to Cody (why?), then to the Mom (Why?), THEN to the new daughter (okay, now it makes sense). It whips you around a bit, and you don't quite get the plot twist until the new daughter explains it. The story ends a bit unresolved too - what happens with the two daughters problem? Perhaps it will be like TV - where any standing problems are swept away by the next episode.

I know I sound like I hated this, but honestly I'm just being picky. Since it was a good toon, any minor points sort of nagged at me and made me want to explain them, if that makes any sense. Nice job, really!

[An iPhone 3G Commercial]

Decent.

Not bad; you raise some good points, the voices are good, and the animation is okay. I share your frustrations with the Iphone!

DWT-Productions responds:

thanks, though some words of improvements wouldve helped since since we must've done somthing wrong in ur eyes since we only got a "5"
thanks anyway
-Tom

[The Sicksons]

Terrible.

Just very, very dumb. There's not much to compliment here; the audio is muddled, the comedy's very weak, and the animation looks to be mostly stock images of the simpsons that have been traced over. Not good.

[BEEP BEEP]

Not quite complete.

Intruiging and quirky piece, but it felt a little short and unfufilled. Still, I'd like to see more in this vein.

[~Birth~]

Too short.

It needed more material - this was just too short and abrupt.

[RWD: 016 PUSSY]

Just okay.

It's more odd and annoying than anything else. The animation is decent but not spectacular, and it fails to be really disturbing or funny, whatever it was trying to do.

AlmightyHans responds:

who says it was trying to do anything? :]

[Alfred's Playhouse Pt. 1]

Sloppy and annoying.

First, I can respect movies that delve into the surreal and push the envelope. But regardless of a movie's content, there must be signs of quality work in order to consider it of value. This movie, however, is just a sloppy, annoying mess. It's noise with no coherency - a forced attempt to be insane, and it doesn't work on any level.
First off, the voices are TERRIBLE. Not terrible as in scary, but very poorly done. There's too much breathing into the mic, and the voices are very inconsistent and immature.

The animation is also sloppy, which wouldn't be a huge issue considering the movie's demented tone. But, the animation is so random and disjointed, it gets to the point where any sort of crap is just thrown in in an attempt to be more funny/disturbing/whatever. I understand the concept of randomness in a movie, but it doesn't work here.

The song is poor too; it dragged on way too long, the lyrics were clumsy and stupid, and it was way overblown.

And as a whole, this whole movie was just too disjointed and haphazard to even be taken seriously at all. It goes on way too long, and in the end just ends up being really annoying.

[It's Over Nine-Thousand!]

Disappointing

I wanted to like this a lot, but it ended up being TOO repetitive and dull. The techno was too repetitive, the animation was just the same bit pasted into various photos, and the expressions weren't even all that funny.
.
I kinda wanted to see more fun taken with the meme.

[Dollar]

Dolla Dolla Bill

Right in the butt.