Uptown-SlimJim's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Your Horoscope for Today!]

Not bad at all

I thought this was pretty good. Maybe not the greatest thing ever made but few things are.

The randomness really worked and I liked the variety of animation and art styles you threw around -- It all came together in a weird harmony. Never mind the criticisms of the joyless and the unimaginative, this was a good tribute to a decent Weird Al song.

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

woo

[KSNF ep1 "The Prophecy"]

Been there, done that

So this is pretty much another 'ordinary kids gain mystical superpowers to fulfill an prophecy' kind of series, eh? This movie is like a crash course into nearly every youth-oriented anime show...you even managed to nail the archetypical collected-minded every hero, cute female, quiet 'n' cool badass, demure sage that provides the powers, and the hot evil chick.

That's just my gripe with unoriginality. It's your idea and I wont ask you to compromise it just to please me. But you probably want to pick up some books on the fundamentals of storyboarding for animation. Because if you want to establish a facial expression or a character, you're going to want to hold a close-up frame of them for more than a split second.

["Inturnat" Ep. 1]

Well played Bucket Hat Bobby, well played

From the minute I noticed how well you replicated my style of humor in your script, I knew I wouldn't regret being a part of this. You did a good job and I'm glad to see it's being recieved so well.

Your series is going places, let's just hope we don't have to wait another several months for the next toon.

PS. Way to school me in animating my characters.

BucketHatBobby responds:

Thanks, man.
I'm surprised it was liked so much.
Daily 4th!!!

[Nobodies Shorts #5]

C'mon guys

You guys do your best work when they're full length cartoons. Enough of all this short-toon malarky. Save the jokes for the REAL cartoons.

[SSBM: Temple Crossers]

Hey...how about that...

Impressive trick and all but was it really worth making an entire movie about it? I mean, all it really did was remind us what all the Up-B moves and taunts look like.

[Who Killed Ken Kutaragi]

Absurd

The problem with hyperactive cartoons is they're too busy to catch all the jokes. If you're opting for Family Guy-style non-sequiturs (Nonsensical, but brief, cutaways and flashbacks) it's painful to have too many too often done in rapid fire. This is what happens when friends get together to write jokes but don't take the time to structure them properly.

Beyond that, it's a good movie. I'd leave the zoom-ins out and work on the voice acting a bit more (The bits where Ace yells were pretty soft, as if the voice actor was trying too hard not to disturb people with his yelling). You've got a good character design and artstyle. But next time, when you want to make a movie, take a few breaths first.

AceRaynor responds:

Sweet, actual criticisms!

Ok, I was opting for a Family Guy style presentation with games as a subject matter. However, I'm not sure about what you find to be the problem. I don't think there were a lot of flashbacks, at least compared to some of the other cartoons I have seen. Is it the transitions between the story and the flashbacks you didn't like? I could understand that.

The room-ins make up for the lack of camera angles. As my art improves, I draw more camera angles, and do less zoom-ins. But yeah there are too many.

As you said this is a hyperactive cartoon. Taking breaths in-between would make it a slow hyperactive cartoon.

[The Ultimate Showdown]

Bravo

Art and animation weren't so hot but who cares. That was a great movie. You guys must have had a blast writing that song (And with the execption of the shameful lack of Skeletor, I don't think you left out a single awesome iconic character)

Do us all a favour and rock on!

[In the Land of Mordor]

Didn't meet up

You guys set pretty high standards for yourselves and nowing what has come from you in the past, this was a bit underwhelming.

You guys can do better and have done better.

[Beowulf the cartoon]

Not bad

It's a solid effort if I ever saw one. I liked the style, the animations were good (Especially for the oppening)

I guess you only got marks docked for the poor recording quality of the mic...which is a shame because the voice acting was some of the best in any flash carton I've ever seen.

All in all, it probably wont win any major awards, but I'd be happy for the toon if I were you.

[All NG Fads Die!!! 4!!!]

Good but getting stale

I got no problems with what the All NG Fads die crew does in their movies (In fact, I'm kind of dissapointed no one has taken a stab at destroying my series yet). What I do have a problem with is what you guys have already done.

Seeing someone shoot Foamy, the Maddness guys and the CC can only be funny for so long before it gets tiresome. They've each been killed more than once (Often times in the same toon) and it's just not as impacting or funny as it was the first time you did it.

Maybe try and develop some consistency in everyone in the collab, get people to claim their series-to-spoof early on and then bar people from claiming the same one. Even if some of the guys really want to shoot Foamy, it's already been done to death.

Other than that, the menu system was pretty solid and I thought the funniest bit was the animated disclaimer. Props all around.