ZekeySpaceyLizard's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super MarioWars (Trailer)]

Please.

If you feel you must make a sprite cartoon, at least put in some effort and give it a backround.

Staring at two colorful pixxelated blobs whaking each other with shoddily edited lightsabers is hard enough. It's harder when they are on a bland black backround.

If this is only a trailer, I cant say I'm looking forward to the final product too much.
Why not surprise everyone and make it hand-drawn instead of sprites?

lyndis313 responds:

I have only taken tutorials in Sprites so far. I am not going to waste that.

[Biosock]

sigh.

I try very hard these days NOT to write bad reviews on things, but I feel I really have to in this instance, seeing as I love Bioshock and all the reviews on this are so hilariously overscored due to fanboys.

First, it's great that you played Bioshock. It's bad that you made this parody. It's also bad that alot of the graphics in this are traced. Every bioshock flash made since the game was released have all traced the same Big Daddy concept art that is readily available on the game's official site.

I cant understand WHY people trace these. It doesnt make the drawings any more realistic. And honestly, I'd much rather see someone's own art style forming an interpretation of a Big Daddy instead of the same bland traced flash drawings used in every Bioshock flash ever.
So I'm just going to assume you have no artistic integrity as your Big Daddy accused. I guess you cant animate either as all the characters were bad pencil-tool drawings whose 2-3 body parts were paintfully tweened around with motion tweens. Hardly animation and painful to look at.
The backrounds were traced bitmaps.

You also forgot to tell any jokes in this. But I'm quite certain this wasnt meant to be a comedy because nothing funny happened in it. Just characters gabbling stuff at each other.
Pointing out the obvious isnt funny. "you're supposed to be looking for a little sister" Oh I GET IT! He's not doing his job. What an absolute barrel of laughs. :/
Oh and you stuck the Charlie the Unicorn characters in this. Oh that's trendy. As opposed to poking fun at the situations in the game, instead you referenced a popular flash in order to get something people recognized into the cartoon to ensure they would vote 5. Well how very clever. You ripped the Unicorns straight from the flash, too. Didnt even bother to trace them.

Too much work I guess, to draw simple a unicorn.

Ironically, the chap who made "Charlie the Unicorn" and "The Last Unicorn" and "Spatula Madness" was once part of a group devoted to making good animated original films. I'm sure he'd be very proud to see his characters in this thing that represents all thats wrong with parodies these days.

Oh Atlus rapes the Little Sister. Man, you sure are edgy. EDGY IN YOUR FACE TO THE X-TREME.

Also, you may or may not have any friends, but its never a good idea to do all the voices yourself. Especially if you can only do one voice. Each character sounded the same. Like a bad Cheech Marin impression. Had the dead raped little sister spoke, I'm sure she'd have sounded just like everyone else.
Actually, that would have made this funny.

Wasted potential really. I would have given this a zero but then that abused M-Bot thing would delete this review.

Either way, if you decide to try something like this in the future, don't. Just don't.
And now, to return to writing good reviews for good cartoons again.

ApothicFlash responds:

Reviews are supposed to be helpful and nice, not rude and slanderous. 4 different voice actors I found did the voices and yes I copied the unicorns so that way they would look exactly right.

IT'S A PARODY IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ORIGINAL!!! IT'S A DEVIATION OF SOMETHING EVERBODY ALREADY KNOWS!! SO GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.

I'M A MAN I'M 40!! DON'T PICK ON A KID WHO'S DONE EVERYTHING RIGHT!!!

[DailyDay4:CoolDr GitsSum]

wahaha

best dailyday submission by far.

you win a golden fff

CoolDrMoney responds:

Oh you jus sayin dat :)

[Dry Stone Walling]

lovely.

Never seen a flash cartoon done in this sort of art style.

It was very refreshing.

The cartoon was also really sad and well done, too. Nice nicey nice.

kyle-christie responds:

we trying to do something different with flash because its so versatile and reflects well like that. thanks for watchin and the comments.

[A Few Sundays in October]

Argh you made a new cartoon and I didnt notice arr

It's been a while since you made something composed of little short films.
I suppose I should review each on their own merit;
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I didnt like the first one a whole lot. While I can and do respect the skill used to make it, not much was really there to feed my eyes. My ears yes, as the song was very nice, but not much really was there. No meat.
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The second one seems to me like an idea that could easily be expanded into a longer flash. The cardboard backround and white vehicles actually reminded me of another flash cartoon done entirely in cardboard called "Paper Sky" which was on Atomfilms and is on newgrounds now as well.
And its funny that it reminded me of that, because Paper Sky also used music from the movie Amelie which you used in......
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....the third one which was easily the best one of all. You used a different art style in this one, and overall it reminded me of Shel Silverstein. I also like the watercolor paint effect. Watercolors never get the respect that acrylic and oil paints do. And it was very freeform and very pleasant and nice. A good depiction of how a brainstorm makes one's thoughts jump from one thing to another, to another, to another. Also, you used those realistic splatters and coffee stains again which I recall from another short of yours. I always like how those look.

tl:dr, it was good. :)

Foxcato responds:

Thanks for that lenghy review of yours, Zekey:)

I am aware that Saviours of Jazz Ballet doesn't have muc to offer contentwise.. I was just playing around with the graphics really... I'm glad you liked the song though:)

Growth was a very simple idea.. I just had to get it out of my system. I'm going to expand on the subject in a movie I'll be making in 2008.

Thanks a lot. I'm glad you enjoyed Coffee Break. I think I shall experiment some more with painted coffee in my future projects.

[You Love This Movie]

delicious satire

I didnt like how Boinky's mouth like....flopped when he talked.
But this is the sort of thing more people should make.

*insert long pretentious critique here*

and i'm spent
the illwillpress scenes along earned you a nice 5

RSQViper responds:

Wow, that is one long pretentious critique. I think I almost went blind reading it!

Thanks for the review, man. Nice to see what other artists think.

(and someone is 0/1 bombing all reviews. There should be away to hunt and kill those people)

[Emulation]

nifty

cute concept.

great execution.

good good good overall.
definitely higly underrated and very different.

Fierras responds:

hey ZSL, tnx for the review. I know what you mean but there is still a group that can appreciate this kind of animation and i'm thankfull for that.

[Bowling Alley]

:D-------

wappin wappin wappinwappinwappin

i love your cartoons so much mayun. SO DAMNED MUCH.

I'm amazed you made something this good in the tiny period since you finished "EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG"

And now I know what your avatar is from as well. GOOD JOB.

RWappin responds:

Hurrah!

I thought it would be a good cartoon for Halloween but I started it like only about a week before and didn't finish in time! Ah well.

[The Spirit of Halloween 2]

crossover madness!

I was in the Indy 500
I must confess I'm impressed how I did
And I wonder how close that I came
Now I got a sinkin' sensation
I was the top of the line
out of sight
out of mind
So much for fortune and fame.........

so many cameos.
SO MANY. I particularly laughed at your rather dumb Ingus drawing. He just looks funny.
Also, THUNDERDOME from MAD MAX is in this. Another cameo!
But I think the culprit
was
RED HERRING.

squeakytoad responds:

Yeah. That's what happens when you draw your cameos hastily, children.

It makes drawing random people so much more fun when they're random people we all know and love (and/or hate in some cases).
Otherwise you're just drawing ordinary ugly people standing around in inconspicuous crowds.

Yeah, a ton more Thunderdome jokes coming in the sequel. Brace yourself.

One of the things I hate about contests is, even if you win, you're causing someone else to lose. It especially sucks if it's a bunch of people you actually know and like. Especially in this contest. There's Swain (who even voiced in this thing), Eddsworld, TmsT, Will Arbuckle, and your stuff. All talented animators and artists with original ideas.
I wouldn't count yours out at all. I was actually thinking yours was going to beat mine.
The score matters some, but it's ultimately what the staff want.

[Peter]

nice

you gotta respect a guy who kicks a cat so hard it fucking EXPLODES.

wish I could do that.

irrelivent responds:

Yeah, I'm surprised your the first one to notice that I don't know a thing about physics. Thanks for the review.