Rabid-Echidna's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Milk Bandages]

That was fucking terrible.

It's like one of those cartoons that came out at around the time Looney Tunes did, and attempted to make something reminiscent of it except failed miserably at the humor. That's what this was. It really shows that even when you have 3 people working on a flash - 1 writer, a good animator and a decent voice actor - all it takes is one of them to bring the entire thing down, the writer in this case. Never have I seen such dry and worthless humor, not even in LegendaryFrog's submissions.

I'm fully willing to admit that the graphics are strictly above average in this, since you had a good animator for it, although I feel like his talent went completely to waste. It looked sort of like the style you would see in an early 90's middle school educational video about why you should eat your breakfast or something like that. Not in any way bad.

Voice acting was decent, but there's not much more to say about it. Then there's that music you probably took from an 80's film about the wonders of technology, which I suppose is fitting.

As for the humor, it fails in every way humor can fail, and that isn't a good thing when your attempted humor is the entire base for your flash project. Chris Rusk had the brilliant idea of thinking about writing something about bruised milk, filling the entire animation with long pauses that make everything even less funny than they already would be, and then ending the animation leaving you wondering why these 3 people even bothered releasing the flash. Hell, he even threw in an angry toaster because we all know that angry toasters are hilarious. It might not have been completely terrible if you didn't have an entire scene that serves absolutely no purpose and is dedicated to the guy standing there rubbing his chin and not looking at his milk. "Tastes delicious!" Great ending.

What crap. Let Robert Levine go animate for somebody who can actually write something worthwhile.

mumbla responds:

Woah, you went all out on reviewing an amatuer flash.
I like working for mr. rusk though. he's a fun fun guy! we may not be professional writers, but if one of our submissions can make the front page, then that tells me we are doing something right.

plus he gives me cookies.

[Red Diamond Dragon Club]

I love it.

That may very well be the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life.

[Alastor Collection C]

YUO ARE WINNAR

And Alastor is back.

[This is Karen]

Did you see that?

Another outstanding piece of work form you. I don't know why you posted it on a separate account form your Marc M one, but that doesn't really mean anything.

Graphics - Like I've said before about your other movies, they're nothing worth mentioning, but that doesn't mean anything.

Sound - Good quality, good microphone, no sputtering, etc...

Humor - The only part that matters with your movies, and the only part really worth mentioning, which is why I basically just skipped through the other main parts. So far, you're unparallelled in the humor division of Newgrounds. I can't think of anyone who comes even remotely close. Every flash you have made on this account, and your other one are all hilarious (with the exception of Self Portrait, but that doesn't count) and pretty much the only thing I laugh at anymore on this site. When I want to laugh at something, I don't turn to any of that worthless crap by illwillpress or Legendary Frog, I go watch Geman Love Film.

This flash is just simply great. A father talking about raping his son's new girlfriend, passing it off as a hidden camera show, then stabbing her. All with that "just kidding!" attitude. There's just something funny about stabbing someone in the chest, then smiling like it was just a joke.

Good stuff indeed. 10/10 fo the review, 5/5 for the score...multiple times.

[Newgrounds Versus - Final]

Well then....

I voted on Jerm's movie, bringing it's score up to a riveting 12%. Looks like Gel wins this round, but Jerm had more of the style that I like.

But nonetheless, Gel's entry was good too. The little Quicktime-style bar at the bottom was a good feature, even though the only point when I used it was to see if it worked. At first it just seemed like it was going to be another DBZ style stick fight, but at least it turned into something more than that. That still doesn't change the fact that it was filled with "meaningless philosophy," a term I use when referring to people writing complicated and seemingly philosophical dialogue about absolutely nothing. I tend to use it a lot when talking to idiots so I can leave them confused and laugh at them when they actually think it means something.

Well the graphics were still good, even with the stick figure part at the beginning. Throw in a few cameo background appearances from Alien Hominid and a few of your other movies and you get a 1 for humor, just becuase that's not supposed to be the point of the movie. Sound wise, good voice recordings so that you can hear them keep prattling on to eachother about something that doesn't make any sense. Overall good stuff.

However, I still liked Jerm's movie better. You could probably tell if you took a gander at my favorites list that I was going to give the vote to this one. It has the sort of dark attitude to it, and leaves you with slightly more knowledge of what it might be like in the mind of an insane person. Death of family members can sometimes leave the living members so traumatised that they eventually go insane and continue to live out their deepest fears over and over again in their minds. Too bad these people are beyond any form of counseling at that point.

I wouldn't go as far to say that the graphics were as good as Gel's submission, as long, or had nifty features to it, but still better in my opinion. The sound fit the overall theme of the flash, and the animation was good too.

Well, although my vote isn't nearly enough to lead Jerm to a victory, I still liked the submission better. I'm looking forward to some more of these 1 on 1 flash artist duels.

[Xander-Matrix]

Hahahhahahaa

Final Fantasy A+ has nothing on this.

[Manga-Gaga 100 Omake]

This was mucking around?

Then I'd like to see what you can make when you're actually serious about making something. There are very few users on Newgrounds that can animate as well as you can.

The style of this, as many are probably going to say, very closely resembles "num1000 512kb cache mix," which you can also find on this site. But then again, I really wouldn't know what else you would come up with when you base a flash around that song. Your version is good, his version is good. That's becuase it's a good song to base an anime themed flash on.

As I said, there are very few authors on this site that have the animation skills that you do. Hopefully you'll get some of the recognition of all the other artists with exceptional drawing skills, most of which have movies in the top 50 of all time. Especially you just made this while you were "mucking around." I generally tend to think of flashes made that way turning out rather pathetic, not ending up with a portal award and a pot on the front page. With your artistic talent, I hope to see more submissions from you.

As for the audio, yes, it's the same song in the flash I mentioned above. Still high quality sound as well. It's a good choice of music if you're making anything like this. If you have any other flashes that you're going to submit here, I hope you have a good microphone. I've seen a bunch of flashes that can be made a lot worse with a bunch of sputtering sounds whenever the person talks.

With that, I just hope you submit more flashes. It's good to see a good movie once in awhile among the endless amounts of crap that inundate the portal every day.

GagaMan responds:

I have flash skills? As I've said before, this was mainly me just farting about with the program seeing what I could pull of using that music, but cheers anyway ^^

And don't worry, I have plenty (much more orignal) flash animations planned for the future.