Decky's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Adventure of a man - 2]

A much more amusing short then the first and it feels more drawn out and well written too, the duck pooping scene is especially funny/horrific. The duckling eating the ass worm also a nice little gross touch. Maybe I'm reading too much dark into this but I kinda hope not.

It has to be said that I'm drawn to wanting to see more in this series so that shows good writing, especially when you don't use any dialog.

I'd maybe consider working more on your backgrounds. I feel that more time could be going into them but with 8-bit it can be hard. The only real advice I can give, the rest was good.

Keep it up and I hope to see more of this series soon.

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Pepeto responds:

Thank you for the review, I appreciate it!

[Adrellia Village #42: SE]

I'm new to this series so found the story a little hard to grasp but that's my fault and obviously I won't mark down for that. I'll review as best as I can.

The animation was smooth for the best part although it would be good to increase the time spent on some facial animation. When the screen stays on one character for a while it can seem visually boring because of this. Maybe the odd background joke or something going on to break up the amount of still image.

Background music or more use of music won't have hurt either. I really hate complete silence and at some points you had a good few seconds of it.

It had a couple of good gags but dragged for the most part. A good skill in animation was shown though, maybe it's just not a series for me or I just don't get it. I don't know.

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MistyE responds:

Thank you for the in-depth review. I appreciate your feedback. I'm going to be implementing a wider variety of shots and camera angles in the future. All of the episodes after this one have background music, and I'm doing my best to make sure episode 46 does not drag.

[Green Day]

Not a bad little flash, as a bit of a stoner myself I'm instantly drawn in haha. There were a few things that I noted could have been improved on though, the lip syncing needed more varieties in mouth shade as currently it seems a little off and like more practice is needed with that. Also I found it a little difficult to understand what was being said at some points, I think it was the accents.

The good points were the TV frame that were put around the edge and the static effects, a nice touch. The writing wasn't bad either.

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ArcadeHero responds:

Thank you buddy! I'll try don't f*ck up next time.

[Bully]

Not a bad, funny short though there are a couple of problems that I can see of, for example the bigger monkey's blinks sound more like a coconut hitting the ground then the coconut that whacks him on the head. Also the movement of the smaller monkey seems to simple, I would have liked to see you spend more time animating his arms and legs instead of having him bounce across the floor, the mario sound effect for this also seemed cringe worthy and over used.

I liked the writing of this flash, I think as far as comedy shorts go it did it's job vthough more work needed doing, I personally would have taken this as a kind of advance animatic and spent another week or so improving it in any way I could. I strongly suggest you do that for your next one and we may be talking about some seriously good flashes.

It says in the description "Voices of all me" do you mean you did the monkey voices? if so that is very impressive.

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ArcadeHero responds:

Yep, I did the monkey voices :)
Thanks for review.
I know that the work isn't good enough.
Short period of time is a little limited me.
+ I'm a bit lazy :D In the new flash I'll try to accommodate all of the previous shortcomings

[BLANK2.swf]

I really did enjoy this flash especially the level of macabre humour involved, although I do have some thoughts about how it could have been improved. For example, it isn't very clear about anything really, the menu doesn't even give any indication that it is one until you move the mouse and find out that the white dot is your mouse. Also you have mentioned "secrets" I'm not sure what they are but I did get two different endings for one short, for some reason.

On the plus side I really think this is one of the best, if not the best flash I have ever come across in The Review Request Club so far and you don't get compliments as big as that easy. If only you had just put a title on the top of the menu and made the buttons more clear it'd be getting a much higher score.

I'd like to see more creepy shorts from you in the future, keep it up.

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Surn responds:

"For example, it isn't very clear about anything really, the menu doesn't even give any indication that it is one until you move the mouse and find out that the white dot is your mouse."

Already noted in Author Comments.

"you have mentioned "secrets" I'm not sure what they are ..."

If you're still curious, try reading the first review for this cartoon by Handsome Tyler.

"On the plus side I really think this is one of the best, if not the best flash I have ever come across in The Review Request Club so far ..."

Well, I'm glad you like it. If you liked this then I'd recommend "aufeis".
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/612292

" If only you had just put a title on the top of the menu and made the buttons more clear it'd be getting a much higher score. "

I was going for a minimalist, enigmatic approach, but I'll admit: it kind of sabotaged the final product. I'll note that in the author comments.

Thanks for reviewing.

[Party Hard]

I'm not a biggest fan of memes and this is probably one of the worst ones. The idea is a little stale but I won't take this into account for this review and instead compare it to the other Harlem Shuffle (thingy) flashes I've seen.

The animation itself isn't bad at all, although I couldn't help but notice that you could see right through the cockroach that walked in at the beginning and I would have prefered it if you had taken the time to make them have a more varied dance moves in the middle. I think it would have benifited from a different gag ending then the vomiting rainbow as well, maybe a giant, Monty Python style foot comes down and crashes them.

I really like the static effect that was put over the top of the flash but think that it became slightly too grainy when it zoomed in. All in all it was a great little flash but maybe go for a more original concept next time instead of going down the meme track.

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ArcadeHero responds:

Thank you!
Great review!

[Meatball Baby]

A simple yet funny short, one of those ideas that for me was a "why didn't I think of that?" moment. The writing can't be faulted but the animation at times was slow and seemed to drag on a bit, for example when the meatballs start to go into the babies mouth, that could have done with being a second or so shorter. All these little cuts here and there would have made it more snappy and in my opinion funnier.

I would also have liked to see more time gone into detailed drawings. The baby was ok (although it looked very pale and almost like some kind of sick dead baby joke in bits), the dad on the other hand has an arm coming out of where it shouldn't.

I do like this movie but if just a little more time had done into it I'm sure it could have been much better because you started with a great idea.

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Pepeto responds:

Thanks for your great review! I'm glad you liked the story and I can see now what you meant with the dragging, it's one of those things you are blind to when you're making something and see only when some time has passed.

[ASHTRAY]

For this review I've done it properly, sat down with some popcorn and completely zoned out into the animation, which is very smooth and can't really be faulted but I wasn't the biggest fan of the art work, it seemed rushed and with little detail.

Another point I would like to bring up at this point is the looping which as I'm writing this is driving me insane and making me mute my laptop, it really needs to be changed so that it comes to a stop with a replay button. The last thing I will point out is that I really haven't a clue what is meant to be the point of this little tale, maybe some more time at the writing stage would have done it some good.

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Pepeto responds:

Thanks for this review too :) I have to admit I totally forgot to add the loading and play -buttons for this one as I just wanted to get over with uploading animation here as fast as I could. I'm thinking of adding them later when I have some time for it.

[Cut For Bieber]

It's not too bad I just feel that it5 could have done with having more time spent on it. Some background music would have been good and maybe some lingering shots of the guys face would have added more comedy effect. I would also have liked to see some more care taken with the backgrounds.

Don't get me wrong the concept is good, it just feels a little rushed and there really is no need to rush.

Potatoman responds:

f u deky

[Shortestmovieaboutspeaker]

I really want to give this at least one star because I rarely ever give no stars but I'm sorry it hasn't done anything to deserve one. Maybe if it was longer then a couple of seconds or had something other then a little bit of text and an explosion that was more predictable then the whole Ricky Martin being gay thing.

The things that you could do to improve it would be to simply go back to the drawing board and thinking of a decent idea. Even for a Clock Crew flash this really did suck.

Alphaman responds:

Watch my other movies then.