IceDragon64's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Lion Sleeps Tonight]

I like!

+The art is good
+the info is great
+the ideas were fun and well executed
+it had reasonable lip sync, which is one of the key measures of quality.

Although I cant say this is my favourite version, I gave you 10/10 sound for digging up the original LST. It so happens that The Lion Sleeps Tonight is one of the official theme tunes of the Dragons & Spirits, so I will show it to my colleagues when I see them. I know of quite afew versions, but this one is new to me, as was some of the info about Wimaway- did you know the south africans are suing Disney for its use of LST in Lion King!
If you feel like improving this sometime- PM me and I will go through some details with you.
Best Wishes,
IceDragon64 of the Dragons & Spirits

[I get Angry Faic T-shirt]

its funny...

...and its very quick off the mark, so I passed it!

I think it would be much better if Wade talked in human rather than speakonia, but hey- its still funny.

art- basic but OK
animation- basic but OK
sound- basic- could be improved
humour- simple but funny
length- appropriate for sketch
could have credits- eg explosion, sound, speakonia etc.
Ice

[SANTA CLAUSE]

Quite good

Desperately needs a preloader- it played in little bits til it loaded- I will give you 20 minutes to put one in before I vote! Also needs a stop at the end, preferably with a replay button. If you cant do replay button yet then put in a stop and put in text telling us to right click and Rewind.
To put in a stop just click on the last frame in any layer; go into Actions, click the empty space and type Esc, S, T.
It needs proper credits- music and stuff.

Some nice art, decent story, OK animation- baisc but OK. I was amusied by the Christ mas Tree expanding out of the sack.
Funny message at the end.
make your profile available so people can pm you now you are an author!
Best Wishes,
Ice

[StickDeath Test]

Not too bad

+got sort of story
+got some good graphic effects
+got music
+OK animation
+Linear sky is better than blue

-story doesn't make sense. Presumably if one had heard of the reference it might help- what is this creature. An intro in the movie would help a lot
-its just stick men- if you can animate Ok and do things like linear then why not make people?
-Linear sky is upside down, the sky goes lighter towards the horizon.
Put in sounds, its so much better than just music, especially for those of us that dont like that kind of music (that track is overused anyway)

Keep at it its got potential
If this really is a test, then it belongs in alphas.
Best Wishes,
Ice

[Exploding Fungus (silent)]

So! the great Bezman has...

a skeleton in his cupboard!? (albeit one with a score of just over 4, which goes to prove how artificial NG scores can be!)

I cant compete with the last reviewer for technical skill in reviewing so I won't try.

+ its vaguely funny
+ it has some a punch line, therefore purpose, which makes it better than quite a few NG subs

-it looks crap, with no background, meaningless colours, no shading
-very few movies get through without sound- even just an explosion would be a considerable improvement.
-animation very crude.

You must have some powerful friends or something, I don't see any clocks or B's in it. How did you get this through judgement?

I wonder how you would have reviewed it if it came from someone you didn't know? I ask myself that of my own work sometimes and it pushes me to do better.
Best Wishes,
Ice

Bezman responds:

Thanks for the review!

Bear in mind that this was 2001. Kong had been at #1 for a few months straight. Nothing else could reach the score of 4.00. There were far fewer submissions and 'spam groups' weren't around. Everyone had a far greater chance of getting accepted into the portal.

When the famous B was submitted, my understanding is that passed of its own merit - people just found the shock of finding that letter and nothing else amusing.

Likewise, some folk just found this made them chuckle. Check one of the first reviews for proof.

For the record, it passed at maybe 2.5ish. Above 2 anyway. I voted it up afterwards myself - something I wouldn't do now - and did so until it reached 3.7. A fan took it upon themselves to upvote all my stuff recently. I didn't ask them to.

In a way, my LLL account was an attempt to have a fresh slate, free of upvoting and whatnot.

Stay funky!

[Tea Time:The Kopitiam Way]

Some excellant art!

The car, look of the kopitiam from the outside, the look of the tea with the light on it, the pouring. Yes, Excellant- up with the best.

Roof tiles were good but could be better. Faces plain and not up to the same standard.

Animation good- some good angles. Excellant dog panting!

The little story was nothing special, but it was a pleasant change. I note its all your own sound and music too, well done!

Submit more- I want to see more of your work!

[Ludwig: the beginning]

Yes but no

the 3d effect is impressive compared to the usual flash we see here, but what you've actually created seems pointless.
I am no expert but I assume this is not Flash but some other program, in which case, may I suggest you look for a more appropriate site.
We expect story/point
background. I imagine that this takes quite a bit of work to programme and I don't want to be unkind, but generally I come here to be entertained or educated and this does neither for me.
If this character were doing something more interesting on perhaps quite and ordinary but relevent background I would rate it much better.

[Periodi City]

I eat cheese & jam- its cool!

Dragons & Spirits like weird food combinations and we support eduFlash, so its OK with me!

Periodicity fascinates me and you made a good effort. so much so I gave you a resonably good score, but you know its a mess.
the blue blocks of small letters are very hard to read, increase the contrast.
You need to tell everyone who the characters are at the end.

PJEskoria responds:

Ah! thanks!!! Good to know someone understands this is meant to be a type of eduflash! i thought of giving a more specific bio of each character at the end, but my due date was eating me up.

[Still the One]

Nice one!

Its fun its funny. usually these personal things are crap, but yours is good. Don't be afraid that we wont understand or that its just for you two. Since you have chosen this song, which is all about Still Together, the video makes enough sense as it is, I would not have guessed most of it was about one particular person. In other words its stands as a good video of this song.
This version is not to my taste, I love the Shania Twain version and knowing that she wrote it from the heart about her husband helps some. The picture bit about growing old together was what pushed it up from 5/10 2/5 up to 6/10 3/5 for me.
Its true it doesnt have much actual animation, but it did tell a kind of story just the same so- Kewl!

[Creepy Pilgrim Guy]

Lip Sync

The lip sync is wrong- He is say hella instead of hello. th O should be a smaller mouth.

Otherwise its ok if a bit pointless.