Wallross's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Stage Fright (Movie Jam2)]

I thought it was very good. The quality of animation wasn't spectacular, but its a really good job for only 17 hours. At first, the unhinged comedic style annoyed me slightly, but 'Obamas Balls' made me crack up. But I think your greatest strength was the voice acting; the announcer sounded like an announcer, and you used the autotune effect well.

Overall, a good job, lacking in some polish, but for 17 hours, it was a really nice effort on your part!

[Villainy - P.I. #2]

That's good

To be honest, the animation wasn't the best there ever is.
And do you know what? It doesn't really matter one bit...
The quality of the script and audio more then made up for it!

[Guy with a Tie]

Very nice!

Gonna have to say, although slightly random it was pretty funny. The teeming of the 2d animation and the 3d effects was nice, although there were a few clipping issues, especially when the guy with the tie came out of the toilet cubicle.

There is another pressing issue however (you know the one), that might end up making Newgrounds a slightly darker place. But hell it's your choice, and I guess there isn't really anything I can say to talk you out of it.

Also, why was Sarah Jessica Parker explosively launched from the building?

[Knowledge is Power]

Nice Animation.

It wasn't all that funny though. All the jokes fell pretty flat and a few made me cringe. Especially when he was reading the dictionary upside down... Unless the entire thing wasn't meant to be funny, in which case I completely missed the point...

I also would have appreciated it a bit more if there was some more content. Thirty seconds of bad jokes isn't going to get a flash very far...

The animation and art was sweet though. The lip syncing was timed well, and you definitely have a great graphical style going on.

I'd love to see some better written and longer flashes from you in the future though!

[Howto make great comments]

I liked it!

Although the animation wasn't Disney standard, it was good enough to convey your message, and with flash's that are based upon their jokes, not their visuals, this is fine.

As for the lolz I laughed a bit, although most of them were actually quite predictable. The concept behind the flash is relatively original, although most people share the same opinions about faggots on YouTube. Which then made the jokes predictable, as stated before.
But it was still funny!

[~Play~]

I liked it

It certainly wasn't perfect, but it was in a way touching, and very beautiful.

There were a few things I noticed however. They were only little barely un-noticeable things.
Firstly, in most scenes, the bird would have high levels of shading and the jungle creature didn't. This is ok if it was consistent as you can use it to show something about your characters, but in some shots the roles were reversed, or both characters had shading. This ended up annoying me.

Also, some of the movement wasn't timed quite the way I expected it. In a few scenes the jungle man gorilla thing seemed to float and glide instead of actually leaping. This sometimes acted in reverse, especially when the flower was growing. It was the sort of scene that deserved a slow cinematic.

These few things subtracted from the overall quality of the movie, but it was still great, and I'd love to see more.

P.S Can't wait for the game jam!

[Santa's Halloween]

I laughed at how bad this is...

Seriously... I can't believe I'm friends with you guys...

WingDemon responds:

shutt-up ross. your just mad cuz i didnt put your name in the credits. :P

[How Valve Got Their Logo]

I like it

Pretty funny, and the animation itself wasn't bad. But there is one problem, That logo was first used on the new games in the Orange Box, games that pre-date L4D1 and 2...

Just fought I'd point that out, but a pretty good flash none the less. Valve are definitely my favourite game developers by far, so I'd love to see some more Valve parodies.

Falconer02 responds:

Yeah Valve games have always been amazing. And I am well aware of the time paradoxes with my logo-theory here. Thanks for the review!

[B.Y.E.]

Very Good

Generally, I'm not much of a fan of the stick genre, but this was pretty damn good. I liked the visuals, even for just a stick movie, they were great. The animation was smooth and well times, and it gave the feel that action was actually happening in real time, the way it should.
Audio was nice, but in my opinion, it felt kinda... I dunno, out of place a little bit, but the animation definitely made up for this.

My only real beef about this flash, I suppose, is the screen size. Everything is tiny, and it makes the action a little bit hard to follow.

But, over all a damn good flash, far better than what I expected from something that seemed like a run-of-the-mill stick, figure violence movie. Great work, hope for more soon!

[Ninja versus demon]

Sequel?

This movie was excellent. Nice and smooth animation, good graphics, and some good timing that made it nice and suspenseful. But, you left us all in suspense. I'm sure everyone here wants a sequel!

We already have a robot day here on NG, why not a Ninja/Samurai day. That would be epic!