DreadMore's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Everybody Loves Raymond!]

Pretty embarrassing ideas in this collab, not to mention allowing in a guys with "too loud annoying" cutscenes.

Good ideas for animation, zero ideas for making something half funny.

EDIT: GrayAnimations made me ponder, so I'll get into details:
Animations are quite good, some would be considered even 4/5, true.

But as average the collab pretty much hangs around 2,5/5
Many ideas seem original as well, it's just that... don't get why in every 2nd collab someone has to post something like a bad or shit joke with volume up to 150% (yes, 3:15, feel bad for all people using headphones).

I don't really sympathize with the references to this "Ray" character, what's so funny about creating several strips of "let's all rip and tear Ray for <<reasons of existing>>". From what I get from around 12:12 he "does not blend" with the other characters, but that's it.
Maybe introducing him in a way that would actually made viewers seem sympathetic to "hating him" would open me eyes some witty comment around his bleak story. Instead through half of the thing I've been just confused ("why dress him like that", "why gouge his eyes", "is this a StarBuckshmuck reference?")

There is effort in it, it's just.. does not translate very well what you're trying to show, half of the things look like someone mixed snuf movies with rage criticism.

P.S.
No, I don't have Animal Crossing, hate sandboxed games.

heyopc responds:

this project was done for fun with the intent to be easy and to let anyone join who was interested, not to make the highest quality content on newgrounds. if your sense of humor is really that good and this collab really bugs you then you should make one yourself and see how it goes.

[Potato Gun]

As far as stopmotion movies look like, this one was awesome.

[Make Gears Great Again]

Was kind of "mmkay, superb Flashgitz parody, alright.", and then burst into laugh 2 seconds after main guy took away his 'manhood' :D

[Cake Day]

Pretty awesome, mades one chuckle.

[mickey mouse hates pluto]

Legendary account or not, this is bad. Not even funny. 1 star just because of the clickbait Action Hero style Mickie picture in the whole thing.

[DeeDee fan animation]

Looked nice, music could be more stylised for Dex'es Lab.

Also that DeeDee is an impostor - she would never feel sorry for destroying anything in Dexter's Lab!

["Earth" by Muramatsu, feat. Emily Kaplan]

Splendid piece of work!

EDIT: Just corrected grammar

The animation was properly looped, and the little things were appearing sometimes normally, sometimes very delicately, felt like you were walking down a magic road buried in interesting scenery/thoughts, only to suddenly stop and look around, to be surrounded by a magical garden. I really liked the snail, not sure I normally see anyone going to lengths to properly show someone how long does a piece takes place :)

The animator did a great work syncing all of the effects to the music, showing that he indeed, is inspired by it, and no wonder!

The music itself is beautiful, worthy an animation, game, a movie, a theater play. I'd love to come and listen, but I'd had to hide in the crowd so that no one sees me crying ^_T.

Overally the work of Art here touches oneself as me. Especially the last part with the "pollinating scene" after which everybody started vanishing. It felt like you wanted to symbolize a passing of time and people, but not a sad one - a joyous one, promising new Spring to come.

Well done~!

maruki responds:

I can't express with words how happy this review made me. Thank you.

[Robot Cowboy Duel]

Nice animation, good use of sound effects and overally a high noon made fine in robo-punk style.
Was missing just one thing: the "after duel is won" winner's stance. Usually they do some trick with the gun before putting them away into holster, or throw in the punchline verbally, but this guy just stands there unamused.

[Elvis & Dimmi]

tl;dr: Cudos for this piece of art

Really good animation, a bit eye candy, but that changes just when the gore scenes are shown. A real morsel for lipsync as well, wondering however what tool was used for creating the graphics and how long did it take to animate one whole sentence (does it take it longer when you would have used hand/tablet/mouse drawn animation?).

The voicework shows off when the goblin village scene arrives and later we meet the heroines (female villans?). Every sound and music piece sounds like a game, which is really putting the pressure on "this is a game parody")

The idea of creating a piece about video game parody from the side of "villanious" side sounds almost like Starbarians in pixelated form, but you do efortlessly slide the atmosphere from "chaotically merry" Starbarians to "gruesome cold-hearted" adventurers. Because this makes the adventurers look like some kind of evil mercenaries, or kid-bandits without a charm, some viewers will likely oppose the idea of such story telling, some other won't be bothered at all saying "its fine".
Both will likely be kept captivated by the series thou, one half rooting for their success and the other half waiting for the heroes tragic demise. Because the viewers will be split, maybe try to direct the story based of votes :)? (although bad idea, even the bastard viewers will want to see the guys HUNG at the end :P)
Got to add, for a pixel art about dungeons and dragons it sure has a tragic atmosphere (why are the protagonists so hard assed)

[Malls : Foamy The Squirrel]

As always, nice, the Foamy rant is nice to my ears (am I becoming deaf?).

Flat jokes aside I do find this episode strangely less emotional in the voicework. Its not bad, just a bit less high pitched yelling :) . Most of the ideas touched in the series are true and I agree with the fact some types of people should rethink their style of life or get the heck out of other people's faces.

All in all, Foamy series as a medium to produce a rant I do relate to and find stress relieving, and are a good idea I wish that will continue.

I kinda miss the other squirells thou.