Fro's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Parkinson's Awareness!]

Alright.

I noticed that you were receiving a lot of reviews that didn't really review the submission at hand, but instead they reviewed it with their own personal opinion, which is no way to review. I thought you might be interested in another good quality review so here I am. :)

Animation/Graphics - Not bad. They could use some work, but overall not too bad. Everything was decent in terms of background, color, animation, smoothness. I'm guessing smoothness, because it was a bit rough and glitchy for me, but my internet has been acting up, like it usually does, so I can't really review that part. I will just give you the benefit of the doubt. The animation you did have was very simple and I think that there is a need of just a little bit more to give it any extra points to the rating on this section.

Story - I'm sad to say that I didn't get it right away. As soon as I did I got a good laugh out of it though. Good humor, but it was lacking in somethings. It wasn't the funniest thing ever, but that would probably be after I got it, it kind of just went on for a little bit.. Like it was just based on one quick thing and then nothing else if that makes sense, but it stayed on that subject for too long.

Audio - This is where you could of greatly improved on your animation and if the following were fixed I would of probably gave you a much better rating. Sometimes the animation didn't always go good with the audio. He was playing the guitar before the song even started and then at the end he was still playing it when the audio itself had ended. I think that in the beginning that if you would of added a voice to the first person talking it would of greatly helped the score of your submission also. When the curtains opened it would of cool to had some sort of crowd clapping and when the song was over having the crowd go nuts and start clapping and cheering, etc.. Lastly, if there would of been some nice ambient sound effects while the music wasn't playing in the beginning then that would of also helped.

Overall, a decent short submission, which could be pretty good with a few things fixed up and added to it. Keep up the good work though and good luck on any future submissions.

C52

cHunter responds:

Wow, you went into a lot of depth with that review. Thanks!

Animation/Graphics - I'm not much of an artist so I'm still trying to get a cartoony style down that is easy to make, yet still not terrible to look at.

Story - Yeah, it was kind of a half-assed attempt at humor. My bad with that one, haha.

Audio - Well I don't know too many voice actors and I sound like a real douche when I try recording my voice so I just left it voiceless. I might see if I can get someone to help with the voices on my next animations, however.

And now that I think of it, I probably should have had some background music when the announcer was talking. I'm not sure why I didn't, heh.

[Sleep Walker]

For the love of god.

I thought you had finished making movies. I was so pumped up when I saw this submission under judgment. You better believe that I 5'd in through man. You've been my favorite author on newgrounds since I joined back in 04. I actually notice you have a few submission that I haven't check out lately so I think I might have to go back and review them all until I have gotten them all. It may take awhile though. Never know, I might review enough of your submissions to actually get an author review from you. That would be awesome.

Animation/Graphics - You have really come a long from your early submissions if I may say so myself. I remember back in the day and the clay men weren't as neatly done and everything was just a bit messier and not as as smoothly animated. I know for a fact how hard it is to do claymation as I have made several myself and they have never, NEVER, turned anything out like this. If they did then I would have a new claymation submitted to newgrounds every month or so. Most if not all of the animation was very smooth. I like the part where the heads were shaking almost violently when they were about to stab him. (While they were still sleeping)

Story - I don't think any of your stuff could honestly get any funnier. I think the main reason for that is because of the very simple humor you use. Other people have to try so hard to get the same laughs out of other people, but with your submissions it seems like the humor is so effortless. This movie wasn't any exception as it was very funny. Also, the length of the submission was good. It wasn't too long or too short.

Audio - The voice acting you do is always great. Did you ever have a submission where you actually had someone else voice act from you? I guess that question was pretty useless though if you don't reply to my review. >.< Oh well, I guess I don't really have much more to say about the audio part of this submission.

Overall - A great addition to your Klay World. I hope you still have a few more submissions planned out. Actually I hope you keep submitting to newgrounds for long time. All of your Klay submissions deserve well over a 4 for their score. Also, how could this submission not have won a daily award? It was awesome.

C52

[Wegra Adventure 4]

Well..

First off can I say wtf is going on?? Lol, oh well.

Animation/Graphics - Woah, you said it in your author comments. The graphics are just a bit fucked up. It almost just looked like copy and pasted picture of stuff. Almost something the kitty krew would do. >.< Maybe instead of just the stick man and the poor quality of everything else you might want to slow down and take your time while drawing everything. Also, the movie was kind of close to the animation. Back up a little and give some background to the movie and just pretty much make stuff a bit neater. Take your time.

Story - I didn't really know what was going on, but I'm sure that there is some sort of story behind this whole thing. Maybe I will need to watch the other episodes to find that story out, but sadly I don't have the time to review anything except for the stuff for the review request club. Also, the text wasn't always easy to read and at times moved too fast.

Audio - Simple audio, which worked, but at the same time I think voices and sound effects might of helped the score of this flash just a little bit. I know you didn't have a mic, but maybe next time get a hold of a voice actor or two for the characters.

Overall, if this was some sort of joke submission then I'm sorry for the really detailed review, but if it was a serious submission then I hope the suggestions in my review will help a little.

C52

~ Review Request Club ~

[The Last Hour: Chapter 10]

Hmm.

I might say this a lot in this review. Why couldn't this be done on your other movies? I will give it a 10 for a couple of reasons. It is well animated, there was a story behind it, and the audio was better. It doesn't deserve a 10, but I will put in consideration of how poorly done the other movies were.

Animation/Graphics - I might say this a lot in this review. Why couldn't this be done on your other movies? The animation was very good. Not elite, but still a lot better then any of the other submissions you had. ALSO, you had animation, actual animation with things moving and action. I'm very impressed with it. Colors, backgrounds, smoothness, and everything else was perfectly fine.

Story - I might say this a lot in this review. Why couldn't this be done on your other movies? There was an actual story behind this episode. I think it's the first time you could make some sort of sense of what the movie was about. It seems all along that your series was some sort of comedy, but I had no clue before because of the bad quality.

Audio - I might say this a lot in this review. Why couldn't this be done on your other movies? Well, not for all of the audio. The music itself was fine just like all of your other flashes, but this time around the voices were clear and almost enjoyable. My ears weren't stabbing themselves every time I heard a voice.

Overall, I still think this series was some sort of joke and nothing you can say can make me believe otherwise. This one was so much better then the other ones, but with some more work you could be earning some more awards now and then.

Oh yeah, I might say this a lot in this review. Why couldn't this be done on your other movies?

C52

~ Review Request Club ~

[The Last Hour: Chapter 9]

Fuck this.. lol Sorry for my French.

Not good at all..

Animation/Grahpics - The animation was very glitchy and rough. The space ship was drawn very nicely, but that was about it. Everything else may have actually been a step down from your other submissions.

Story - I honestly don't know why I didn't give this flash a 0/10. I am a nice person though. I also think that the score of this flash should be somewhere around a 1.5 or so. It's really that bad. No story at all. I can't even comment more then that.

Audio - Some music and nothing more. It was probably the only reason you received any points from me though. Other then that.. there isn't anything to comment on.

Overall, this is probably one of the most negative reviews I have left lately, but the flash deserves everything that I have said and probably a lot more then that. There wasn't anything here really so I don't see what I can review on.

C52

~ Review Request Club ~

[The Last Hour: Chapter 8]

Hm..

Animation/Graphics - I can't say anything wrong with this at all really except for the lack of actual animation. Just like most of your other movies it's pretty much just like a picture and a couple of very slight movements. Nothing too great. The graphics and drawings are still getting a little better every time I see them. Good job there I guess.

Story - I can honestly say I haven't a clue what this series is about at all. The only thing I hear every time is the antichrist is doing this and doing that, blah blah... I really don't see how the story matches the animation too much.. something that really needs worked on in the future.

Audio - I think the audio in this one was really terrible. From all of the voices and all of the sound effects in general. The menu was the best sound effects. I think you need to get some voice actors and some people talented in audio to help with your series next time around.

Overall, this one wasn't very good at all. The audio was of bad quality and there wasn't too much animation at all. The cheesy humor that you tried to add really didn't help this series out at all.

C52

~ Review Request Club ~

[Narrative Flash Remake]

Not bad.

* Side Note - This is the fucking second time I wrote this review because the last time I did I accidenlty pushed the back button on my keyboard and my entire review was deleted before I finished it. It actually took me quite awhile to write it too. >:( Also, I do not enjoy poetry, but I don't review flashes on whether I like the subject or not, since I don't find that fair. Rather, I will review the flash on it's quality.

Animation/Graphics - While there wasn't any animation in your flash I'm sure I can still find some stuff to review about. The menu itself wasn't very organized and the background was boring. If this was improved on then my rating for the flash would probably go up another point or even two. I think they need to be put into columns and you need to look for a background like you had in the poems themselves.

Story - I only read the entirety of one poem because like I said before poetry really isn't my favorite thing in the world. The text was fine and the words were easy to read. The file size was huge also, did you compress the audio? If you didn't then compressing the audio might cut the file size in half maybe even more.

Audio - While the music went perfectly with the poems, I really didn't enjoy the button to shut the music off for one reason. While you could shut it off there was no button to turn them back on. I looked around for one and read your directions and there didn't seem to be one. I think that would be a good contribution to this flash also.

Overall, pretty much work on the menu and maybe add that button for the audio that I suggested. Good job.

C52

~ Review Request Club ~

SprintT responds:

Thank you for the advise, and please stay tunned. The menu will be revamped and so in the control pannel. Also there will be compressed audio so I can have more content.

[Forever Young]

Lmao. I loved it.

Animation/Graphics - The animation and drawings, while being very simple, were really nicely done. This seemed to be one of those flashes that didn't really need any fancy animation or graphics to make it good. Everything ran smoothly and I couldn't really find anything wrong with it. When the egg closed his eyes it kind of looked weird. It looked more like he was rolling his eyes into the back of his head because everything was white, but I guess there wouldn't be too much to do about that since.. well.. everything is white lol.

Story - I was thinking that it was going to be predictable just because of the song and everything. I knew that something was going to happen exactly like it did. So while it was very predictable it still caught me by suprise for one reason. You allowed the egg to sing the song for long enough so that the movie wasn't boring, but you kind of drift off and forget that something is probably going to happen to the egg. That and the fact that it did happen so quickly. A pretty funny flash.

Audio - The song was great and all other sound effects were done perfectly fine. The only thing I can really find to give criticism to about the audio was that it didn't allows seem like it was synced up with the voices perfectly. At the same time it was just enough to give you the feeling that the egg was really singing the song though.

Overall, a funny short flash that deserves the rating I have given it. It's worth a watch in my opinion.

C52

~ Review Request Club ~

[The Last Hour: Chapter 7]

Alright.

I know you have a new one out, which is better then these, but I still have to review them like I'm trying to help you improve.

Animation/Graphics - The animation itself hasn't changed any. If anything there wasn't any animation at all in this one. It was just a picture with voices overdubbed and not to be mean, almost anyone could do that whether they had flash talent or not. I do have to admit that your drawing has gotten better since you have been animating this series though. Congrats on that.

Story - The same old same old again. This really needs more action and just plain more stuff. It's just two people sitting there sharing words. There just needs to be more then that and I hope number 10 is like that because it did win Daily 1st.

Audio - The voices, while weird, they are almost fitting and they are clear. I do understand everything that is being said. Everything else about the audio also seems to be fine.

Overall, I'm still waiting till I watch that one episode that really stands out. I hope I run into it soon.

C52

~ Review Request Club ~

[The Very Best of Bahamut]

I liked it.

Animation/Graphics - Just like almost all of your other work (Well since it is all of your other work in this case) the animation itself is very simple, but at the same time it's all that is needed and you find a way to make it work for you.

Story - I really like the idea of mixing up some of your best flashes all in one flash. Some of the transitions in between scenes actually made sense like that was how they were suppose to be. I thought that there was going to be a bit more explanation before the real things started, but there really wasn't. Too bad.

Audio - Well, all the voices are fine. We all know the one voice is annoying as hell, but it's suppose to be that way. Everything with the audio seemed perfectly fine.

Overall, a good flash with a good idea. If I had some more flash movies (not counting my games and quizzes) then I would love to make something similiar to this, but since I don't then that probably won't happen for a long time if ever.

C52

~ Review Request Club ~

kinggila responds:

If you ever decide to make a flash similar to this one, go right ahead with the idea. I'd be glad to influence someone with mixing most or all of their previous flashes together in one.