Alter-native's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[A Serf's Day - Technofeudalism 2040]

This Is The Future…

…And the Present.

[Shoot Star!]

Twinkle Twinkle.

You oughta be animating on Network Tv, Netflix or Hulu or something, not Newgrounds.

It captured things I loved about old anime. Even the cheesey localized vocals songs over Casio keyboards.

Fewebomb responds:

Thank you so much!! I'd really love to do more with this so hearing that really means a lot. Also I'm glad you noticed that detail!! :)

[Taco]

This Audio is From Looney Tunes Show.

A bugs and Lola conversation.

Character designs are little simpler than the original style(Mario Bros.). But the animation is decent and has room to improve.

[Anime impact frames, BRO!!]

Thank You Toniko.

This video is really helpful for those that want to learn the cinematic language of tv anime.

[I'm not passionate in art anymore]

It Made Me Sad.

I wonder where that adorable little French culture appropriator is going to go now?

[Mario Burger King Ad REAL Crica 2000's]

It’s Super Fantastic and Super Unoriginal.

This short looks really impressive. Mario and his world look perfectly on model. It really does feel like it could have been a real comercial. The vintage vhs rip low res colors are a nice touch as well.

However, one thing you forgot to mention, and I hope everyone else realizes this too, is that your joke or humorous subversion circumstance was lifted very liberally from Family Guy. It was a scene where Peter stubbed his shin and does what most of us do when we do that. He breathes in through his teeth and goes “ahhh” repetitiously until the pain goes away. What’s worse is you didn’t even have Mario do it in an Italian accent. Mario sounds like Peter Griffin when it happens.

For that I cannot give you more than 3 1/2 stars. But at the very least, your short looks good. If anything please learn from this, and at least cite your inspirations in the descriptions if nothing else. You don’t want to be like Amy Schumer, who had a rosy start, but then, plummeted to rock bottom when people found out she stole jokes from Mr. Show and Bob Odenkirk. You don’t want to be like Dane Cook. Dane Cook did a “Baby Names” routine that was inspired by Louis CK’s standup. Even so Dane Cook’s routine was only a little similar and he added his own spin(Louis’ original was about silly baby names, Dane’s Cook’s twist was that he would name his kids after 80’s toys with name like Optimus Prime), he was flogged mercilessly by the Internet and his career plummeted, especially when Louis CK capitalized on Dane’s moment of weakness and called him an expletive-that-I-can’t-say-but-urge-you-to-look-up. And that was the end of Dane Cook.

So please, please, continue being masterful with 3d graphics, but when you’re going to write please try to come up with something on your own.

[SS Christmas Collab 2022]

I Am Very Merry to See That You Guys Are Still Around

You guys are such funny little trouble makers. And yet, you guys got hearts of gold, for giving users with smaller fanbases a chance. Well, except SevenStar, he's on the permanent naughty list for the, you know, the incident.

PowerRangerYellow/Mightydein always gives his all despite his limitations. Maybe he cuts a few corners every now and then. His drawing ability might not be perfect, and he might need to learn how to break up his actions with key frames depicting pivotal actions, and then use the inbetweens to connect said pivotal key actions, but I always loved his fluid framerate and it's the perfect trade off for any short comings. Drawing On-model is tought, but I appreciate him drawing Bart from different angles.

I was a little disappointed with RTIL's short, but I forgive. He's a very busy man and he needs that boobie commission money.

My Favorite short is the one at 2:00
There seems to be a run-on gag with SixStar getting bomb from SevenStar every Christmas. Can anyone clue me into this run-on joke? I bet it's really funny.

Merry Christmas Eve everybody!

And a 6th day Happy Channukah to you GrandfatherClock.

ThreeStar responds:

dont talk about mightydein like that he is canada’s greatest treasure and he is perfect ,bitch

[NOT FUNNY DIDN'T LAUGH]

I Think You Just Created a Meme Here

Sometimes an act is just not entertaining nor funny.

But, calling an act “Not funny” , is funny.
Same case with Milhouse, a Simpsons character who will never be a meme, but fact that he will never be a meme, is a funny reoccurring meme.

I love all the different ways the red shirt egghead guy eviscerates the yellow egghead guy. My favorites being the one where he sends him to hell, and the other being the pac man kill with him eating multiple yellow guys like dots.

From this day forward, whenever I encounter something not funny. I’m going to be thinking of that high pitched “NOT FUNNY, DIDN’T LAUGH.” Chorus.

Very basic CGI, but definitely left and impression.

[Piconjo: Sick is Missing!!1]

For those who need help on the in joke. “Sicksexfiend” was the alternate moniker of Sickdeathfiend, an NG user who is renowned for his bloody zombie animations and games.

There was a time when he use to join up with the notorious Star Syndicate, a trolling and spamming group known for making “swell flash” and self referential stuff like this. A lot of users in that group did what they did to get back at NG for giving prestigious awards to really popular artists and animators that didn’t put much effort into work. Said artists and animators are the ones in this movie. The frog in the crown is Legendary Frog; the guy that did the Final Fantasy song animation and these motion tween comedy shorts with ray man style alien characters), the squirrel is Foamy; the ranting star of Illwillpress’s Neurotically Yours, the human head on the blue clay body is Knox; who did clay animations about blob people getting hurt, and the fat guy is Pikanjo; who did Perfect Kirby.

Often the Star Syndicate would utilize the “Piconjo” character, a poorly drawn rip off of NG mascot Pico, and claim him to be the ultimate fighter and other such nonsense.
I don’t remember who the guy with the R on his shirt is...

I guess SickDeath/SexFiend once posed as a girl or something to evade connection to his original account or something.

Anyway, I found the use of audio of the Care Bears Alice in Wonderland movie to be quite silly and fun. And the use of these often mocked targets in a relatively wholesome scenario is a little enjoyable. I only rate 3 stars due to animation quality. But otherwise, thanks for the swell flash.

ProsciuttoMan responds:

You right now: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_yhjE8XYAAqo7D.jpg

[JUMPFORCE X]

The Best Sweded Jet Set Radio Like Thing I’ve Seen.

What makes this little thing so cool is how limited the animation is, and yet it remains captivating because of the animation direction and how scenes are framed. Individual characters are very tiny, and simply designed, cheapo, and I’m not sure if the animator knows how to flesh out a proper inline skating cycle, so the POV will be on certain angles to mask that. Closing up on a character from the waist up while an appropriately diagonal speed line background cycle is actually convincing enough. Characters don’t even have to be animated, they can slide across the ground since skaters use momentum on downward ramps to gain high speed. Then there are moving backgrounds like that entire tunnel scene which was real cool. The action was well thought out with me being able to clearly see what’s going on and the animator only needing to use a few frames of animation in each seen.

A lot of effort was put into all the backgrounds. The city they all skate in is huge and very much alive. I’m embarrassed to say I’ve been working on something similar in concept in my spare time, and this movie has been quite inspiration simply in all the ways the action is framed.