chris-the-stick's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Walk and Talk]

needless to say, the visuals of this movie are amazing as always, as its shown by the great art skills of mr ZL.

the movie starts at a strange point: the two scholars of clocktopia, the charming pear-clock and the brave potato-clock, enter a field of lines in the middle of a blindingly white environment. they talk about life, physics, philosophy and flowers, until potato-clock steps on a troll's foot (triangle-clock), and the troll loses his piggy-bank and gets upset.
this act of defiance surprises pear-clock, but it also makes her love potato-clock even more.
eventually, the two heroes decide to enter on a van and to go through a building in order to escape in the 5th dimension, so that they can complete the next part of their plan: to save clocktopia from a big threat, and to do a scientific discovery.
upon entering the building with their van, the time+space continuum collapses in front of their eyes, and they begin to get nervous.
the van falls outside from the building, and it goes down on a cliff, meaning that this will be a big fall, and it will be definitely lethal for them.
while they are still falling down, they are talking about sexual intercourse and about male reproductive organs. things get heated.
and THEN!... then everything changes drastically.
the final scene is superb, and everything is revealed.

all of the characters are nicely drawn and with great detail, from the pleasant pear-clock, to the cool potato-clock, to the annoying triangle-clock. the long-van of the duo is also nicely drawn as well, and on great detail.
the backgrounds+the building are drawn in a minimalistic way, but still with great linework and with a nice design in general.

as for the story itself, its surreal, its wild, its crazy, yet its nicely presented and full of action+humour.

all i can say is:
great work, sir...
this is a very nice movie.
keep up the good work.

[frisbee]

what a great movie!

i remember seeing this movie many years ago, yet it turns out i haven't reviewed it yet. what a heresy!
i shall rectify my mistake instantly.

so, the movie starts when frisbee, the dog that could play a piano, enters the courtyard of the CC's HQ, and starts barking. alot. for many hours.
then, the noble hero pear-clock talks kindly to the dog and asks him to stop his most annoying barking habbits.
nothing happens.
then, the raging hero tomato-clock enters the field: he threatens the dog, he utters curses and he screams. the dog is still barking.
tomato-clock then delivers a great verbal comeback and prepares for the most epic face pummelage that you've ever seen, a magnificent shovel-off of incredible proportions, a duel of the ages, which ended up in thunders, stones and tears.

it was truly magnificent, and a very cool movie to watch.
this is one of the few modern movies that can be considered as ''CC classics''. its that good.
excellent work, MFC, keep up the good work!

PS: no dogs were slapped in that movie. everything was the clever use of a stuntman named josh bedn. amazing work.

[The Rat Pack]

wow, this was funnier than what i originally expected, so congrats to you for making a funny, random, and crazy parody of the famous ''rat pack''!
i liked how you've added a mumbling/singing sound while they walked, and then you've thrown them right into the heat of the action!
excellent fighting scenes, great humour and wild action, from this epic parody+animutation (sic)
this was a really funny parody, and i enjoyed it alot!
keep up the good work, i would love to see more movies like this...

[BB10 Balad 3: Clockhunt]

this was a great movie, pecheneg!
your animation skills are great, and the whole animation had a nice, swift pace in it, while the FPS speed was perfect and it flowed nicely along with everything else.

the characters movements and face expressions were superb, with good pace and with great detail too, as every character in your movie was nicely drawn+coloured, and with good sequences for each scene.

apart from the nicely drawn characters, the story was quite funny as well:
it was about how BB10 rescued oatmeal clock from the barbarians, and they joined forces to visit the glorious city of newgrounds...

i like how you've drawn all the characters: from ooo-land's BEEMO to the witcher, who had a great bubblegum-chewing animation, (it was really funny!).
another nice detail was how hardcore+nicely designed were our characters when they reached the rock+heavy metal bar, where they got black+white make-up and they rocked out!
apart from that, i liked all the inside-jokes and the cool references that existed throughout the whole movie, along with the nice details in each spot of the map.

i was very proud to be a part of your great animation, pecheneg, and i was very happy to not only voice-act for this, but to also design the map as well!
i am very happy to help a friend, and i hope that we will do this again soon in the near future.

all in all, it was a nicely drawn, flawlessly animated movie, with good pace, many cool details+references/jokes, and with some solid humour. (also with some very nice music as well.)
excellent work, keep it up!

OatmealPecheneg responds:

Thanks for review Chris!
I have to say that this is very good expirience BUT here are some mistakes from my side.
So according to the feedback now I should understood basics of storytelling. Yeah, some people just can't understood what is going on, who are those characters and what is their motivation. It will be fixed.
But from the other side I also liked the creation process. It was stupid but funny. :-D
Anyway, thanks for help! I am just learning.

Regards, Sergey!

[Damn]

this one was a promising new madness movie, with some good pace, nice FPS speed, good action, and with some nice battle scenes...
good job!

the only ''problem'', was that it was too short.
you should add more scenes/battles/situations in the movie, and end it like that only if it will continue in the next part... (as a cliffhanger or something).

nice movie, it was cool, nicely animated and it had an interesting protagonist in it.
keep up the good work!

[Ursula the guardian of the Oceans 1993 film) Teaser Trailer 2 NG version]

its an interesting idea, although slightly badly drawn, if you may allow me saying so.

the best way to fix this issue, is by drawing the madness characters as simple geometrical shapes.
try drawing ovals in flash for their heads, and a rough rectangle for their bodies, while you can draw some simple circles with lines for their hands, and some basic gun models by studying some pics online (or by doing some basic L-shaped guns with lines in flash)...

when you will have your basic characters +designs ready, prepare to draw some simple, yet more quality-drawn backgrounds, drawn with lines in the important objects of the scene, (for example the ship+the control panel of the ship), and using thick (or narrow) brushes for the background (for example, the sea+the sea floor)...

that way, you will be able to better portray your story, because it certainly sounds interesting, and i would like to see more about this, and/or more stuff like this.

also your sea-monster/guardian/ursula, needs to be more detailed, while it should be slightly different than tricky the clown in her design...

anyways, this was a promising movie, and i hope that you will slowly improve over time with practice, because this is a very promising script, and its pretty original for a madness movie.
keep up the good work!

omithealien responds:

Thanks.

[Johny Johny on crack]

this was a really nice parody of the ''johnny johnny'' meme!

i like how you've drawn the main characters, the linework is good, and their face expressions were nicely drawn+funny.

plus, i really liked how in each scene, johnny was melting more and more, until he became a pile of mud in the end.
very clever detail, and a very funny movie overall!

good stuff, keep it up.

Passaralho responds:

Thanks <3

[These New Dating Apps Are Complicated]

hahahaha!
this was a clever, creative, and quite true joke about the modern state of the ''dating apps'' that we see today.

too many requirements, and too few options.
(ofcourse not all dating apps are this complicated or ''premium'', but still: some of them are quite messy, while only the more simple ones deserve to be used+supported..)

as for your animation, it was good: the animation's speed was good, with a nice pace, and the character's might not have been detailed or very nicely drawn (sorry!), but they had nice face expressions, and the lip-syncing was great.

plus, the scenes where the one guy says: ''dude, i havent understood a single thing from what you've f**#ing said to me...'', or the scene where a lady tries to talk with the other guy, and he says ''damnit lady! cant you see that im trying to talk with my friend over here?!'' and then he says, ''i will try to find you some ladies on the app'', those scenes were really funny, clever and enjoyable.

all in all, it was a good movie, with a nice message.
keep up the good work!

CowClown responds:

Thanks Chris, I appreciate the nice feedback.