Cheesius's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Boneland's Stray Bullet]

It's a great concept

But you went on and on and on and on with the guy who had the cure for cancer, and it was pretty obvious what was gonna happen with him. We knew the bullet was gonna come and kill him and wipe out the cure for cancer at the same time. For that reason (plus the fact that he wasn't really killed in a funny or original way) the joke fell flat. If the punchline to the joke is known, taking longer and longer to get to the punchline doesn't make it funnier, it just makes it more tedious, unless there are little gags along the way.

Of course a lot of other people seem to like it, so oh well.

[Car Accident]

Nice

Too bad you neglected to submit it as a game tho. Maybe that's something you can still fix? I don't know, I've only submitted cartoons.

Anyway, it's a fun little choose-your-own-adventurey thing. Nicely done and entertaining to boot.

[Banana Heist]

I like it, but it's too quiet.

I'm gonna make a soundtrack for your cartoon, because it deserves one. If you want it, e-mail me, and let me know where to send it.

Observer-Mark responds:

cheers that would be great, please email to [e-mail]

[X-mas day in the morning]

Nicely done.

Of course, it was pretty much the same scene with different characters, but it's not like you're trying to pretend you made it up. Anyway, the animation was spot-on, and the sync was perfect. I'm assuming the characters are based on you and a couple of friends. Anyway... yah. Not original, but very well done.

[The People's Mario]

Definitely not over rated.

This is an excellent cartoon, well done. I love the stylized look of the thing, it has just the right feel to it. Great job.

[Pokemon Snot Green]

meh

I'm on dialup, so I'm likely to notice some things other people won't... Cheif among this is the music playing while it's loading. That's just annoying. I tend ot watch one cartoon while another one loads, and the music makes it difficult, which right away makes me dislike your toon a bit. I haven't even SEEN the toon yet, and already I'm predisposed to think it's going to be annoying. The saving grace is that the music did fade out at some point, at least there's that.

Ok, it's done loading, gonna watch now.

Meh. Not very interesting, not very funny. The sprite animation was well done, but since sprite animation is so easy, I'm not likely to give you many points for that. Try to come up with some actual jokes, rather than just having the characters be annoying.

Chaossal responds:

y didn't you just mute the sound by right clickin.

[WorldWar2]

It's okay... But

The animation required too much of my old computer, even with the quality set to low, it just skipped too many frames. I had to actually download the thing and convert it to an AVI first, then it played beautifully. Because the thing played so slowly without conversion, and because they're pretty simple basic stick figures, I rated it kinda low... but not as low as I could have, because the stick figures move very well.

Other than that, it's just mayhem. There's no plot, it's just "Hey, look! Hitler's talking. Oooh, people are fighting. Lots of people fighting. Is that german music? Oh, well, never mind. Peuple fighting and dying.

Sound rated pretty high, it was well done.

Violence? Yeah, that was okay. Not superb, mind you - but very good. But... that's just about all there was.

Overall I was just annoyed by how slow it ran and the fact that there wasn't really a story, it was just violence, nothing but.

Ah well. It didn't suck.

[Marios song]

I'm with the audience at the end... booooo

the lip-sync wasn't bad, but.. that's all there was to this movie. Mario lip-syncing to Kung-Fu Fighting, and a bunch of random eyes blinking at him. Well. That's... great. Seriously, this was lame.

[Cat (short film)]

I see promise, but I'mah check "needs improvement"

Your characters looked good, and they moved relatively well. That's the good news.

the bad news - The beginning lags to hell, and you really shouldn't have given the whole plot away on that first screen. Seriously, I finished reading it and was waiting for a long time for it to move on to the next screen.

then it got into the movie, and there were no sound effects, no voices, nothing. Okay, must be a music video, right? Nope. The song ended about halfway through the movie. That's annoying too.

Okay, then when they're running through the woods, yeah - it slowed down to like 2 fps, even when I dropped the quality to low. Too many objects that are too complex. You need to optimize your objects. If something doesn't need to move indipendently, it should be combined with the background, or whatever it moves with.

The rest of the movie had some speed issues as well, I'm guessing you've done no optimization at all.

But seriously, the artwork showed promise, as did your skill in animating the characters. You just need to get better at the mechanics of cartoon making.

meneerken-retteketet responds:

it stopped half way ? 2fps ? Man ! And i thought my pc was crap !

Btw: all objects are optimized, and the running scenes are automaticaly put to low quality. I figured if it runned smoothly on my crappy computer it would run at least twice as smooth on all other machines.. Guess you beat me :p