Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Colgate - Shiny Teeth]

Moving along shortly...

A nice example of how to lip-sync, even if it is a Brony piece. I like the song and can laugh at the idea of a horse or pony having it's teeth brushed, as I've seen it done before. Look it up on YouTube, if you don't believe me, it's funny, the way that they play with their lips.

Still, the ponies in the background move about with a degree of lethargy, though like you said, that's probably down to the low frame rate. Given that this is the only issue you had with it, I'd like to see you using more lip-sync in your pieces.

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[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]

[Wacky Astronomy ADVENTURE]

Good, but lacking something...

I think that the humour in here, really isn't my kettle of fish, with the supernova killing off some members of the Star Syndicate. I tend to stay away from Newgrounds Politics, as it's only going to cause problems :P With the second one, I wasn't so overstruck with the pictures that you gave us for the lyrics of Happy Together. A shame really, as it's a good song.

Finally, the taking away of my entertainment, by seeing something educational and replacing it with a Clock Crew "I'm not going to do this" one liner, was a little harsh. Even for a joke. Yes, I laughed... well, smiled a little, but that's beside the point.

Try putting more effort in to making the drawings look good first, before animating them, as it's still letting you down, I feel.

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MistyE responds:

that's not the star syndicate lmao
thanks for the review

[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?

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Adam-Beilgard responds:

He thinks I'm handsome and funny and smart!

[Funny School Things Redux]

Long winded, but funny.

Some good shorts in there, some bad ones and some that are a little indifferent. I'm not sure about the characters still facing forward and "bouncing" off screen, it makes the animation look a little untidy, as if you can't be bothered to make a walking animation for them.

The writing shows good observation and a unique perspective that school-age kids have on the world, particularly with things that they have heard in other places and don't quite understand (the rape joke, for example), plus the ability to twist a line of dialogue from innocent to innuendo laden in less than half a second. I still do that and I'm nearly 30... there may be something wrong with me, though.

School has given you some good memories, treasure them and come back to us, when you've got some for College, as I bet they are just as funny.

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Aqlex responds:

Yeah, I actually purposely did the "bouncing" because if I had to create walk cycles for each of the characters in this thing, I don't think I'd have ever gotten it done. This was a re-animated version of an animation that I made many years ago, so I have since then gone into college, and have already started a list of similar situations that I could turn into an animation. I'm not sure if I'm going to yet, but they are written down in case I ever decide to do it. Thanks for the review =)

[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!

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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.

[PsychicPeeblz]

Bennal rubbish.

Well, what you see is what you get - just a piece designed to be spam, so I'm reporting it back, to be another horrible waste of talent. Perhaps bitching about Oney, but just generally not what could have been made. There are some people that appreciate art, others that try to make something else that stands out, while others that just grab a can of spray paint and daub cocks all over it. This is the latter of the three, sadly.

The drawing of the character is pretty good - better than I could muster. The sound quality was too quiet, so I never got the chance to hear too much of the voices. Correcting that could have made the piece better, but then to lampoon the very YouTube trolls that you have emulated in this piece seems very strange.

So near, yet so far. Sorry.

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[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.

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