pikpikcarrotmon's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[TANKMEN 1.5]

I've got a fever....

...and the only prescription is more TANKMEN!

If you can keep maintaining the feel of this while ramping up the humor each time, I'll be busting at the seams by the next installment. Keep it up.

JohnnyUtah responds:

I have the next one mostly written and its more elaborate and its plenty funny. im getting it done as soon as i can.

thanks for the review LOLOL

[Steve Irwin: A Tribute]

Well, you didn't lie.

It WAS a tribute. However, should another worldwide hero and celebrity be barbed through the heart by a displeased stingray, here are some suggestions:

More effects. There was no variation in your tribute, making it feel drawn-out and uninteresting while relying solely on sentiment to keep the viewer watching. While I'm not asking for some crazy action thing, keep it interesting with different transitions between the photos.

Tinker with the photos themselves and vary the slideshow. These ones weren't of the greatest quality, but that can't always be helped. Sometimes, a good tribute could have several photos at once. A video clip or two would have added a lot as well.

Heartless, anal nitpicking--one of my peeves is when the music continues until it dies out at the Replay screen rather than anything happening, as if it's just another slide in the show. I absolutely love it when people tinker with their replay screens to be more fresh and unusual than the standard single-button fare.

Needless to say, this was a tragedy and I'm very sad that he died. However, it would have been more appropriate to have waited a little while longer and perfected the tribute than to be the first one on Newgrounds with an average one. A well-done tribute is better at pulling the heartstrings than one that has nothing but heartstrings to rely on.

Frenzy responds:

Thanks... I think...

[BITEY FUCKS FOAMY]

Agree to disagree.

I thought it was actually kind of cool. I like looking at stuff like this because it gives me ideas on what to do in my own work. However, a minute or less of flashy squares is definitely not going to catch the average Newgrounder, or any Newgrounder for that matter. Too little is done, misnamed, and pointless. Try making a full movie with many different things going on at once or something a bit less epileptic for a greater score.

I find it kind of disturbing that many of your reviewers actually wanted to see Bitey... going at it... with Foamy. I think it offers a rather profound look into the average internetgoer's psyche far more than continued misnamed turds on Newgrounds ever did...

[the YuYu]

I grudgingly give this my ten...

...because there's nothing higher.

First you gave us Bitey of Brackenwood, and we thought we'd seen the best internet animation ever. Yet you proved us wrong, numerous times. After seeing littleFoot, I knew I'd seen the most amazing animation that Newgrounds would ever feature. I was wrong again. I think this animation is the singlehanded best animation the internet has ever seen, and will be until the next installment of Brackenwood hits it.

Graphics? 30 fps with almost all of it totally FBF is an overwhelming undertaking which you've delivered splendidly. Despite the animation's rapid pace, there's never a low moment in quality. The fog effects on the YuYu clouds were the best I've seen yet in a 2D animation, both commercial and non-commercial. Finally, we get to see Bitey at his speed and not ours.

Style? YuYu breaks all limits when it comes to style. Even though it's really quick-moving, it maintains the Brackenwood feel the whole way through. I love the camera pans while Bitey's being surrounded with two YuYu clouds the best, but his dismantlement of said clouds at the end is a close second. The fog dispersion is... well, that's your forte. Very cool and stylish. I also love the Mickey Mousing the whole way through. That's something authentically old pre-Eisner Disney.

The music in this installment is such an improvement over the last few rounds (no offense to your skills, of course). Getting a professional involved was genius and it made the movie. Your MIDI tracks, compelling and delightful as they were, just wouldn't have made this movie as incredible as Spider Stacy's brilliant score.

As for the others, well, not much of them in it. 2 for Violence--loved the fight at the end and I love how all the little YuYu run independently of each other. Interactivity... there were two buttons. Humor? I won't spoil the joke, but even funnier than the mishap is the unfortunate effect it has shortly afterward.

Overall, this doesn't deserve a ten. It deserves immortality, infinity, for it is perfection.

[Salad Fingers Episode 7]

This series...

I absolutely love it. It's engrossing, it's incredible, blah blah blah. Your style is impeccable, as I have come to expect from your work. That's a big word--expect. That means that you've earned so much respect from me that I don't HOPE your work is good, I know it will be.

But that's not what I'm here to talk about. What I want to discuss is your fascinating character, Salad Fingers. Despite having one of the most bizarre names I've heard in quite a while, he's my favorite character on NG. I know you put a rather morbid tone over this series, but what I get from it is not a message of death but rather depression. I pity poor SF. He's such a nice person, but after his brother died in the war he's left all alone and goes crazy in his absence. At least, that's how I interpreted it. SF could've eaten him for all I know, but I'd like to keep him at "friendly but deranged." One flew over the salad nest...

Great job. I love you like a sister.

[littleFoot]

Curses.

Why, O Divine Adam, must you smite our hopes and dreams like you do? Naught we worms can do will ever surpass or even match your damned creativity! Damned, I say!

This is the most beautiful Brackenwood you've ever done and unquestionably the finest Flash on the internet (next to that Numa Numa thing... that Gary just breaks me up). The details stretch so far that on several zooms there are still new things to discover. Your water effects never cease to amaze, but I suppose that comes from years of FX direction at Disney. Even old Bitey returns in a new beautiful state. 10/10 in Graphics, hands down.

Style? You've created a world. An alternate dimension for yourself and your followers to play in. It's so atmospheric that it leaks out of the computer screen. Now I've got a bunch of plants growing around my desk, thank you very much. Moss is hard to get out of carpet. 10/10.

I know the music isn't as stunning as some might hope, but for MIDIs it's as good as they come. As for sound effects, there is far more ambiance in this installment. Everything blends together perfectly, whether it be footsteps, water rushing, birds chirping, or lily pad creatures floating up a mountain. 10/10

Violence? Bitey gets bonked with a rock. Brackenwood is family entertainment. It's as far from Madness as it can get (thankfully). 3/10

Interactivity? Though it's tempermental, the new controller improves the Brackenwood experience tenfold. Now a normal 7 minute movie can be broken into parts. This also facilitates the finding of certain secrets, which I'm sure you kept in mind when you made it. It's no game, but it made littleFoot even better than it was. 10/10

Humor? Bitey gets bonked with a rock. It's not Decline. You've got the same quirky sense of humor, but I'm glad to get it in moderation. Overwhelming humor would destroy Brackenwood. Er, should I say humour? 5/10

Thus, you get a 10. Something that the lowly masses can never hope to achieve to the massive extent you have. This fully deserves the 4.75 it currently has and I hope it stays at the #1 position for a long time. Of course, don't you feel guilty about beating all of these kids at their hobby?

Ten out of ten.

[Afterliving]

Hmm...

I think there may be something symbolic in there... ;)

soccerlord8 responds:

No way...

[No Man's Land Flash Anime]

That was... nice...

Brilliant art, though the Photoshopping and motion tweens were fairly obvious. Your style was impeccable, the sound perfect. I noticed a few glitchy loops like the hero's hair waving in the wind and him walking in--they didn't reverse, they just kinda jumped back to the first frame in the object. To fully utilize your obvious talents, try more FBF (frame-by-frame) instead of motion tweens--No Man's Land will become even more stylish and well-done. Plus, tweens hog file space anyway. I'm not fond of anime, but this definitely found its way into my favorites list.

Anything with cowboys and aliens HAS to be good.

[Proto Tribute]

Hmm

I've never HEARD of Proto, but a tribute like that makes me want to know what it is.

[Salad Fingers Episode 6]

?

I love this series because I've never known quite what to make of it. Is it horror? Is it fantasy? Tragedy? Sci-fi? After the sixth installment in the Salad Fingers Chronicles, I can honestly say... I still don't know quite what to make of it.

We've got poor Salad Fingers, a total freak who lives by himself out in the desert... or some deserted place... He's the nicest guy, but he's rather prone to misfortune. Rather, his "friends" are prone to misfortune. Rather-er, he makes his "friends" prone to misfortune...

So, what now? The sweet, pathetic, disturbing and bizarre Salad Fingers has found a clone? And what of his little puppet friends? Have they ALL fallen victim to his... exotic tastes? Each episode brings more questions, and I never want any answers.

Keep up the good work, you sick freaks, because this stuff is the greatest. Simple, straight to the point... and yet, the story is a void that sucks us all in. Keep it up. I'm looking forward to #7.