El-Cid's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[These Pancakes Are Tiny]

cool

Not bad, man. The production values were through the roof on this one. It had a great aesthetic, believable writings/voice acting, and nice pacing. It felt like one of those American graphic novels you see at Barnes & Nobles that's targeted towards young adults.

As nice as it was put together, the story left much to be desired. We find out that yes, the pancakes are tiny, but it doesn't amount to anything. Waitress (whose voice work kind of broke the flow btw) gets offended, and that's it. No interesting turn of events. No resolution. The characters are in the same as when we started.

The reason I'm nit-picking on you is because, like I said, the production values are great. Otherwise I'd just laugh this off, but you have potential. Keep it up.

[T H E__H I T]

Wow

To all you whiney self righteous Newgrounds bitches, I have this to say:

Knox's Klay World
Numa Numa
DucktaleZ 3

Get off your Flash high horse and enjoy a short animation for what it is. Some of you are so willing to automatically tack on a zero rating for lack of a vector line, but you'll hand out tens like a drunk slut for anything that stars Super Mario.

"Everything by Everyone" should be as literal as that, and as I've already pointed out, there are classic Newgrounds pieces that have either close to zero Flash art involved or rely HEAVILY on 3D software packages.

You're only hurting your own community by alienating artists.

[Chris & Harry]

not bad

Good effort, man. I can see this took some serious time and energy.

The overall idea was pretty funny, but execution left something to be desired. The animation, being that it appears that you went for fbf, looked a bit stiff and funny. Try loosening up your drawings and just practice making the characters move more fluidely. Some of the drawings just felt akward.

Artwork/animation aside, the Dragon Ball fighting felt very tired, so that portion could have been either cut down or made more original. The ending was funny.

Not bad at all. Keep it up.

Oney responds:

why tanka!

[Gears of Awesome]

Alright.

One trick pony, man. It's a good trick though, isn't it?

[Manbalon]

Okidokey

I've seen this style of bizarre film making with the over processed audio and jarring visuals before, but unlike most of these, this one actually made me chuckle with the ending.

It's interesting to me about how this flash isn't really about a good story, but about how the story is told. Just got me thinking . . .

[Jerry and The Closet]

Not bad.

This was pretty nice. Clean visuals and above average animation. The staging and shots were done nicely as well.

I think in terms of story it was lacking. The ending left a lot to be desired. You had a great setup, but nothing really happened at the end of it all.

Dad was pretty funny, although his last bit was ho-hum. The "So . . . yeaahhhhh" line is horribly overused everywhere else.

Overall, nice work.

[Year of the Dog]

alrighty

This was really cool. The look was really clean and it was entertaining to boot. I didn't quite understand what looked like a homosexual epiphany halfway through, but it was pretty funny. Ending came out of nowhere, but again, it was fun to watch.

[Why I'm a Ninja]

Holy Moses

That was great. I genuinely laughed for a good 1/2 minute with the conclusion to his moral dilemma.

Funny story & hilarious visuals. I love it when the kid gets startled and suddenly turns into this muscular ninja. Whole thing felt a bit like a scene from a Judd Apatow movie.

[PSP Squirrels]

c'mon man

Dude, you're about to jump the shark. I admit, the first bit animation-wise was really funny. The way you depicted the squirrels made me laugh. Really hilarious animation on those guys. But that last half was nothing new.

Some of your acting decisions are getting redundant. I've seen you do the arms-extended-and-rippling-waves animation too many times now. Besides this, the style is getting a bit redundant. Wasn't this essentially Awesome Gaiden? Guy yelling loudly and another guy freaking out.

It's funny for a bit, but it's getting tired for me.