Coop's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[LL - TCLL Episode 2]

A very nice piece

Ah, it just goes to show that you really can have a lot of fun with some friends down by the lake. Not quite American Pie 2, but some of the humour seems to be heading that way.

The animation is smooth and well paced. I like the way that you deal with the issues like WineLock flying through the air like it did.

Perhaps you could have had that as a all back joke, like he was pissing off SharkLock and to get rid of him, Shark decides to just say Rape, which causes the same reaction.

I'm looking forward to what you can offer us for TCLL 3, as we really do need more tales per episode. Either that, or make them longer, as tale 3 might just have been a pre-episode gag that you throw in for shits and giggles.

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FlashShark responds:

Detailed review. Wow.

Yeah I do need more content per episode but since I base this off of real life I can only conjure up so many funny stories at a time.

And I have no idea what you mean by an all back joke.

[LL - Exorcist]

You did the right thing

Calling a priest is probably the best thing that you could do in the case of Swine Flu. I love the way that this piece runs so smoothly and gives us a nice little joke or two.

Could have done with the music credit for Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells - it's one of the most popular tunes for things like that, so people should already know, but that's beside the point.

With the animation, perhaps slow down the Lock that flew overhead, as I couldn't recognise what it was as it passed overhead, while I could recognise the three main characters quite easily. Good animation, good drawing style, keep up the good work.

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LeafLock responds:

lol thanks for your review. i thought about slowing spork down, but it was funnier for me because spork's joke is one you could only get if you were a lock.

[Pursuit of the Falcon]

Absolutely Awesome

Wow, what a great piece of animation - you've captured the entire setup of the whole Star Wars saga within the piece. I love the drawing style for everyone, how it makes them seem really detailed, even though the characters themselves look quite simple, when I sit back and think about it - almost akin to those drawn by LegendaryFrog.

I'd say that you need to get some work from the voice acting side of things - While Chewbacca was spot on, you needed a little more work with regards to the voices of C-3PO and Leia, while Han at times sounds more like Lando Calrissian, especially in the early going, when his voice is higher pitched, due to the running repairs that he's having to make.

I'm not sure about all of the spins that the Falcon and the Tie-Fighters pull off during their part in the beginning - it's flashy, but does every ship need to do exactly the same manoeuvre? Perhaps varying it will make it seem a little more natural. Besides, flashy stuff like that kind of undoes the Family Guy joke "Boy, he knows some moves!" gag, when the Falcon lists slightly to the left. I know it's been and gone, but you might want to make other parts of Star Wars, who knows?

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th1rt3en responds:

Thanks for the lengthy review!

First off, I lack artistic skill so my characters are limited to simple and my ships are limited to whatever diagrams and photos I can find to vector them. The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels helped out there. With 3PO I found a drawing-for-animation-guide that helped greatly; if you notice he has pneumatic tubes and extra parts for elbows and shoulders, making him a pain to animate (but fun too).

For the character, the eyes are reminiscent of LF's older style, and I kept them pupil-less just because that's how I first envisioned the characters. I have another flash that's coming out soon that uses normal white eyes with pupils that looks much better.

A lot of the moves are either shot for shot, or just made based on the 2D limitations. I did the movies in the first scenes YEARS ago, and they were a bit cooler back then because they were a bit harder to do. Besides, that's all I wanted to do with an X-Wing when I was a little kid: fly and flip around everything. :P

And yes, I may do more SW scenes, I have an AT-AT walk cycle that I've been dying to use so I may make the Battle of Hoth, or the Assault on Death Star II.

Again, thanks for the feedback!

[Fun With Vampires]

Great little piece

A wonderful little piece, where the Van Helsing style character gets a chance to prove himself. All of those long, cold nights have certainly paid off, as he gets the kill in one shot and no amount of sex or drinking could persuade him that choosing hanging around in cold, dark cemeteries would be better than getting laid once in a while :P

I think that it could have done with some mist for "atmosphere", since you've given the piece a good amount of good sound effects, good jokes and a nice looking drawing style. It could be improved by zooming in a little and using a smaller drawing tool just to get the detail more crisp, but there isn't a great deal you can do without jumping up to the level of buying a tablet, I'm afraid.

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duhidiot responds:

I have a tablet, thats just my simple style of drawing. And wheni draw more detailed characters they are much harder to animate. And i just made that movie in like, 4 hours of real work.

[APA TU?! (what is that?!)]

Very interesting short

Though this piece was woefully short, it was certainly a good piece of animation blended very nicely into the realm of reality that looks wonderful. I like the way that the thing jumps out from behind the screen, but I think I would have preferred if it jumped out of the computer screen - the little details make all of a difference, after all.

While it is simple and effective in the animation and delivery, it could have been made with an English dub to it - if you're good enough to translate it to English, without the issues of lip-sync to hold you back, you could have just done the English voices. Perhaps it was the character talking, but something should be done to show him talking, though I think that part of that was subjective - refering to the character in the 3rd person.

I look forward to more of your works.

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akoRn responds:

Thank you, really appreciate your fine review. I'll informing you if I submit more work in the future. Thanks again

[The Morph!]

Needs more detail

I think that it's not really a morph - you're not moving the existing lines into new, more interesting shapes, you're taking lines out and putting new ones in.

I'd have suggested that you put more colours into the piece itself, giving a more impressive look to the finished product. Also, have you considered zooming in and using a finer pointer for drawing with - you have used quite a thick pointer, so that the look shows a sharper, more focussed approach.

The music was a good choice, but it might need more of a direction, as opposed to the random switching between images.

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cheesebizkit responds:

hey thanks, it was my first flash after all and it certainly wasn't planned out in any way, so I wasn't really going for any focussed idea.

thank you and keep watching the skies!

[Making A Piranha Plant]

Love it!

What a brilliant piece - this shows any would-be sculptors exactly what they need to do in order to create such a piece. From the sculpting, the baking (I thought the browns and blacks were how the teeth were actually going to be painted - it was only on the second run through that I noticed they were just burn marks from the baking :P) and finally through the painting and assembly

I love the way that you put the tin foil around the major parts to give texture - it really works well and produces a lovely effect that would be quite painstaking to create using a craft knife and other sculptor's tools.

I think that I would have liked to see little video snippets, showing people how you fashioned certain parts of the piece and then the way that it all came together - a much more personal feel to the piece and it's encouraging to otehr artists.

As I said in your news post, you need to submit pictures of this to the Art Portal, as it's legal, since this is a sculpture, so you can get away with it, so why not have a crack.

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Kalapusa responds:

Actually, the aluminum foil is there to hold the clay in piece while it is soft until I bake it. It is also used to fill in space to reduce cracking (from baking it) and weight. The texture was done by hand. :)

The burn marks... I put that piece in the toaster oven (as I usually do for smaller pieces for a speedier result), went back to my room while I waited and about five minutes later I heard my roommate screaming my name out. I ran to her and the look on everyone's face was as if someone had died. I forgot to lower the temperature. I almost ruined it.

I'll be looking into the Art Portal - thanks!

[How Not To Make A Comic]

Funny stuff

A great piece of vocal material, but it could be enhanced by a couple of key additions - you've gone on about having a plot that all fits together, so I'd have expanded it to an angle behind the artist - show the spotty kid drawing this comic and then from there, you can cut to the comic book for when he'd drawing. You can cheat on the animation, by having it set as the computer screen, but just make a mouse pointer over the drawing, to show it's being drawn on the screen, for example.

When it comes to the punchline (see what I did there ;) ), why not set the screen, so that he minimises Flash or Photoshop and opens a google search for porn. That would seem like a better. If you're having him go from drawing board to computer screen, it would work just as well, but you need to get a sound for the chair rolling across the floor, just as one of the little details that make a piece complete.

[Review Request Club]

Assios responds:

I thought of expanding it by showing the character draw the comic, but I just wanted to make a short flash, so I didn't :P

And I like your idea for the punchline, would've been funny, but I didn't think about it as I pictured him drawing the comic on a paper and not on a computer.

Thanks for your review! ^^

[Dan Hibiki vs Ryu]

A good laugh

While it's not quite what I expected, I did get a good laugh out of this piece - was the winning move a result of Dan's complete incompetence in dispatching the move, or a cunning ruse for Ryu to try the move himself, putting him into orbit?

A good smooth animation style, with good pace and some neat little facts about the game Street Fighter. I seriously can't believe that this didn't make the Street Fighter Collab, because you deserved to be a part of it. Perhaps there will be other collabs in the future that you can join in with and make even better contributions for them.

How long did this take to make? It looks like it's been prepared quite quickly at first glance, but in the end, if you look closer, you see that there are some pretty neat additions, which would have taken quite a while to put in place. The background, with people milling about for example, was a great piece that even some of the better animators on Newgrounds don't even think about.

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PostTimeskipSam responds:

The winning move was a result of Dan's complete incompetence; however this version of the animation wasn't actually submitted to the collab. I had a weaker version of this animation with an awful desert background, and a poorly drawn Vegeta. The animation only took maybe 10 hours total, so it wasn't like I put alot of effort into this. Looking back, I wish I actually work more on it considering how short the animation was.

[Bob n Sam Ep1 Stereotypes]

I say!

A very funny episode, with some cruel (if you can't take a joke, that is) stereotyping and witty humour. I like the animation style, but it can go further - when Sam crawls through Bobby's jacket, it could have bulged more realistically, possibly denying the very laws of the time-space continuum itself, by storing things like a top hat inside one's friends.

I'd personally have said that the Anti Stereotype Police Department should only be the ASPD, since stereotype is only one word. Not to worry, you got through the episode alright with that little item and it was still funny.

A great joke to make Schwarzzenguile, who is probably the worse stereotype that I've ever seen. Keep up the good work and I hope to see more soon :)

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PostTimeskipSam responds:

Much thanks for your review. I will say that Schwarzzenguile will make appearances in later episodes , but the ASTPD will not. Considering other episodes won't revolve around stereotypes. Thanks again for the review!