RobsNCoppers's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Steve Boozescemi / Buscem]

My mind wandered while watching this cartoon. The visuals stay the same for too long. If your focus is humorous dialogue, you should consider at least changing up the backgrounds.

[Capt.Japan saves America]

Damn good. The animation of Godzilla with his sai particularly stands out. The cape-based transformation of the hero is also excellent.

A minor gripe, but I'd take out the Mario music. Mario is so overdone on this site and the internet generally that it is grating to be reminded of him when I am watching an otherwise exciting cartoon filled with far less common references. That's just me though.

Albinorice responds:

You're right. It's just that finding the right sounds for these kind of things is really difficult. It was between a transformers noise and a mario sound for me, but MajorMcfaggot thought the mario sound was a better idea... :\

[Pico the Dancing Pear]

If you want to make a silly plotless cartoon about dancing fruit, you need more than one fruit.

[Mario Kart 69]

Most parodies of Mario Kart go from bit to bit without much storyline, but you actually wrote a race that keeps track of the racers and their placement on the map. I felt like I was actually watching a race. I appreciate that attention to detail. The bits were mostly good, and I especially like that you came back around to the blue shell. Solid stuff.

[Excitement Needed]

The blood animation looked excellent, but mostly in contrast to the generic black on white stick figure characters. The joke isn't particularly inspired, so its hard to be constructive in review. I guess you need to do some more experimenting first.

[Voorhees' Day Off]

I feel like I've seen this joke elsewhere, but the interplay between Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees was fun, well-written. Yeah. It was okay by me.

DkrMedia responds:

Thanks. I appreciate it.

[Pocket Protectors #5]

It's very professional, which is good and bad. Television shows that rely too heavily on flash are very cleanly animated with a lot of tweening hand movement, eye darting, and head bobbing but don't have anything unique about the visuals. That is the problem here.

There isn't much to the script either. Anthropomorphic characters are always funny-looking, but that doesn't propel a show. If the humor comes from a child's incompetent pocket-sized heroes, then it would be far funnier to see them attempting to help but failing spectacularly the kid with schoolwork or personal relationships. There isn't much lost in a scooter tournament.

Otherwise, if you are aiming the show at children, it would be good to see some sort of lesson learned that gives the show substance.

[Ransack Rabbit Episode 1]

The character design is the highlight. If you want to get an audience for the character though, we need a little more background. Some internal narration would work well (it already looks inspired by sin city). It would be a much stronger cartoon with a well-drawn explosion animaiton at the end instead of the simple yellow light (considering that that is the climax). It is also somewhat noticable that the ground flips between only two frames when he is on his motorcycle, and that doesn't look too good.

[Ransack Rabbit Next ep2]

As a promo, it sort of peters out. No real punch, just a sudden ploy for support at the end. The best promos have some kind of hook to get people talking and anticipating... something.

uncle-x responds:

Admittedly, it's an experiment... the way those NEXT ON things they have on every tv show these days are just cryptic nonsense... but there is a series that is going on with this so I hope you'll check out the real episodes.

[Mario Fights Crime]

The setting you created is the highlight of the cartoon. The colorful urban mushroom kingdom could serve an entire series of seedy adventures. That said, there's nothing particularly funny about the script, but I like that you hid Bowser away for dramatic effect. Don't know. Not much else to say.

funymony responds:

Haha, you're right. I could probably give a few more episodes a go using just the setting.
I'll do it. >8B