Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Tribute to Edd]

Short and moving.

I think that while this piece was as I said above, short and moving, it could have been longer and perhaps more moving than what you put forward. Yes, it adds your own personal touch to it, but that was so vague and a little sterilised, perhaps even impersonal. It lacked depth and enough gravity to be a truly touching tribute to an inspirational guy, whom I had the pleasure to meet in London a couple of times. When the group at large reconvened in January this year, we could not have imagined that one of our talismans was about to lose his battle with cancer. Personally, I never even knew he was ill, but that's how he wanted it.

Yeah, you may not have had the experience with meeting him, but I'm sure he inspired you to do more than download and learn how to make flash. Add some voices, some more animation and really push the boat out, people are usually very generous, when marking these sorts of pieces, as you tug on their heart-strings and really make an impression.

I'm sure you can do it.

[Review Request Club]

[Yotam and Adam]

Short, but still funny.

I like the way that this piece panned out, as I've seen similar things on the TV before - a comedian puts voices for people on a piece of VT that gets played for the audience, allowing for his own comedic twist on events. I've never seen it derailed quite like this, as someone catches the person involved and calls them out on it. I loved the way that it worked along with the petulance of the imitator, which was just the icing on the cake, personally.

I would have liked to see a little more colour in the proceedings - yes, I appreciate it is a style parody, but I can also see where it would have looked better, even with a basic colour set, as opposed to black outlines on a white background.

Keep up the good work, what does LazyMuffin think?

[Review Request Club]

Adam-Beilgard responds:

He thinks I'm handsome and funny and smart!

[Central Bwankers]

Best. Loop. Ever.

Because this is the most humorous, yet realistic take on what goes on behind closed doors at the banks, Governments and fiscal policy makers in any sort of vaguely organised country, that seems to have massive financial problems.

I've clicked your advert, but I think it will only be worth about half a pebble, when you get paid out. This is a shame, because you're one of the animators on Newgrounds that deserves to get something out of his work. Still, with capitalism collapsing around us, we can still have a laugh. Kind of like a guy standing on top of Mount Vesuvius, glaring down at Pompeii and yelling "Haha! You're in for a roasting now!"

The best thing that this piece has is the set loop of different sayings for the greying bald guy. I though that the third one was funniest, but the fourth, when he changed into... I'm not going to say, you'll have to watch it 4 times, NGers! That was hilarious. I'm just waiting on the 5th now, in case this gets even better... Oh, it went back to the start.

Right, now that I've watched it all the way through, I know it's awesome. Great work, keep it up!

[Review Request Club]

Sexual-Lobster responds:

Thanks man, I shall invest this half-pebble wisely, and some day it shall become an entire pebble, which the bank will use as collateral to loan out 50 pebbles to other people.

[Pip the Robot: Trapped]

Awesome short again!

Wow, I love watching this - the way that you've put in such a lot of effort (and with quite a sizeable team, I might add), to get this far, with some frankly brilliant animation, nice sound effects, a zany plot and that little something that just makes it work. I guess you could call it a soul, but I'm not drunk enough to come up with philosophy like that on the spot.

I love the sub-plot with the controlling robots, which seem to be conducting a social experiment on Pip (poor guy), while throwing things into this maze, to force him to make snappy decisions. Such a good thing that robots can't feel pain, otherwise he would have experienced a lot of it by now, just from falling down the stairs.

It's a crying shame that you only managed fifth place, because this deserved a lot higher. For such a small file, relatively speaking, when you consider the quality and the presentation, I still want to see more than just a short of it, which is where my main issue comes in. Hell, I'd love to see a 20 minute episode of this for Xmas, instead of reruns of Wallace & Grommit. That's what I'm getting at, this is the sort of thing that the kids will love.

[Review Request Club]

Zictor responds:

Thanks again for your review. You're in luck with the Christmas Episode, however it won't be 20 minutes long that would take my entire life away haha. I'm currently rethinking the current direction they're going in as its becoming a really complex story so bare with and I'm trying to simplify them! Also if you go visit the other places I post stuff you can see more progress as it develops. I've just given Pip facial expressions which is on my youtube now! Go check it out! Haha.

[Pip the Robot: Button]

Awesome short!

Well, I always like to see your animation and this one was no disappointment. You've presented a lovely piece, with well designed characters and a well designed 3D look to the characters. The plot was off the wall and I did love the way that it unfolded, gradually building up, but also allowing us to see the world from the point of view of the TV faced robot, where it appears that all of his stuff is being stolen from right in front of him.

I wonder if Pip will find some sort of button at the end of this seemingly endless maze, that he has been left at. Keep up the good work and at least give Sarah an author / writer credit on here. You know you want to!

[Review Request Club]

Zictor responds:

Thanks man, Sarah is working on a script for a future Pip short but until then I've got the rest covered :P

Next part should be up within a week or 2 so I'll send you a PM letting you know of it's appearance.

[SnowBrahs]

Ah, how I remember playing that game in the arcade fondly as a child - yes, I'm old enough to remember blowing lots of coins into the Snow Bros. machine, for hours of fun.

I absolutely love the animation, with the way that you've captured the two brothers and even that little demon thing that they snowballed and pissed on. While I kind of expected the turd joke, I didn't expect it to be the end of the piece as a whole, so I was a little disappointed to see it end quite so abruptly. The hours of fun I had as a boy cannot be summed up by a mere few minutes.

Perhaps something like panning out of the arcade machine and seeing two kids playing it as multiplayer, where one has shat on the other in game (literally) and his defeated partner rushes off to a parent, with the phrase "mum, I need a quarter!", while the red player can only sn****r in the background.

As good a voice actor as RicePirate is, I cannot give credit to him for just making sound effects, as opposed to voices. My heart yearned for them to say something, yet all we got was emotive gibberish. There was good potential there, but it needed to be well written. You're capable of that, at least.

I look forward to the next piece you lot make.

[Review Request Club]