Compdude's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[S. Console Wars 2 trailer]

Great trailer!

Fantastic! Your skillful combination of advanced animation and creative wit continue to astound. Your animation skills continue to impove - facial movements are more lifelike, and your 3D models are getting even better - notably the Mario/Vader model! Is that done using SWIFT3D? The humor is there as always - from the clever use of consoles to the EXCELLENT casting of Han and Chewy. There's more here in the trailer than in most NG movies. I'm sure I'll be repeating all this for the real deal (hopefully) coming out in four days, and I look forward to your final product!

[Towers]

Nothing new.

Just a discordant collection of sound clips spliced together with a 9-11 theme. Never really funny or different from most of the others like it.

[second fight]

Not all that bad.

Though it got Turd of the Week, this really isn't that bad. It's just a funny litle Xiao Xiao spoof, short and to the point.

[The Unknown]

Excellent effort.

Polished work! You obviously went over this time and time again to hammer it out to satisfaction. It smacks real heavily of Half Life and a bit of Matrix, but it's solid work. The linework with stickmen is very well done - notably the realistic tension effects on the rope while rapelling off the buildingside. The dark mood is atmospheric and satisfying, and the nameless fed makes an interesting social message. However, I thought the suprise ending really hindered the movie. Why not keep the "neo government" theme through to the end? Make some subtle note about the increasing monarchial nature of modern Democracy? The dialouge was a bit weak, and the Half Life soundtrack has already been used to death, but on the whole, this is near-cinematic quality.

[Lardburst]

Daddy likes candy.

Didn't have to explain the joke to me. I've seen the Starburst ad - and innocent me - it took this flash to make me realize the latent quasi-pornographic message laden beneath a seemingly innocous candy ad. There's a message about the morals of our society in there.
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Anyway, the movie is okay, but drags on too long with the oral workings and doesn't build to a great (ahem) climax. Animation and sound is solid, but needs work on your humor.

[GTE Happy Hour]

Crapimation.

This genre of crapimation was funny the first 10 times, but unless it's extremely clever, it becomes grating. See We Drink Ritalin for a better approach to this kind of work.

[Link's Quest For Ass]

It's all here.

Strangely beautiful. It's like a successful clulmination of all the tired old Zelda themes. 8 and 16 bit interaction. Mario crossovers. Zelda humping. Extremely juvinle penis-oriented jokes. Profanity-laden dialouge. It's all here. It's also the little things - like semen stains on bushes, and dragon humping. Not to mention Micheal Bolton. Well done - you have mastered the art of bastardizing the 8-bit classics. :)

[L]

Star Wars gets Fruity.

Fast, furious, and funny! High fidelity sound, well-synced to the movie, with excellent aniation. The best concept is Raspberry Clock as Darth Maul, though it's worth staying after the ending for a bit that makes no sense to me. :)

[-=Stick Wars Episode I=-]

Good effort, flat humor.

A well-done job in terms of effort and amount of content, but the humor just didn't stick (haha, get it, STICK?!). It was clever, but not really funny. Quite honestly, I was hoping for a little Yoda battle spoofing too. :( And technically, shouldn't this be episode 2?

[Madness Combat]

Kickin'!

All that sweet carnage, and all to the tune of a Chicken Dance remix! What more could you really ask for? Great high speed framerate animation, simple but effective drawing style, good syncing with the music, well-coreographed fighting, and sinfully funny blasphemy. Keep up the good work!