chris-the-stick's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[SACRIFICE.fla]

yes, another masterpiece by krinkels!
great work, gruesome atmosphere and fast, flawless animation as always.

needless to say, the character design is amazing, and both the action/shooting/slicing scenes are superb in all of your movies, and in this one as well.

with that being said, i like that you always poke fun at deimos's smoking habit, and in your movies its often shown that, if smoking is bad for its obvious health hazards, its also bad because smoking can be a (deadly) distraction in the realms of ''nevada''.

another GREAT reference, is when deimos pops out of a bakery shop, the SAME bakery that is always shown in the first madness game ever, max-abernathy+krinkels collaboration named ''madness interactive'', which was submitted on NG on 2003.

this is the bakery, which is shown in the first levels of ''madness interactive'', and also the place where hank kills the sun. (shown in ''madness avenger'', the 3rd episode of the series)

and if that wasnt enough, suddenly an old version of hank falls from the sky, right in front of the bakery, and deimos stands there shocked, not knowing what to believe in this madness.
then he touches hank's body, and the paradox hits him, while he eventually meets his doom (again) by one more ''hell attack'' from above.

noone said that the return to the world of the living would be easy, deimos! ;)

what can i say?
its a great episode of madness, and the whole series keeps getting better and better.
you are a great artist krinkels, and chesyre's music is excellent as always.
its a perfect combination, if you ask me!

top-notch work, keep it up!

[Soviet Ugandan Knuckles]

excellent parody of the ''do you know da way?'' meme, but with a USSR/soviet twist!
all of the characters in the claymation were nicely crafted, from the ugandan knuckles army/singers/soldiers/marchers, to the claymation of the (evil) stalin, to the claymation of the (soviet) bear, to the whole design of the ships/tanks+rocketships of the united ugandan republic, lol!

the final scene, even if it is extreme, it was a clever red alert reference, which was quite cool as far as v-game references go.

nicely crafted characters, good pacing, good sound-sync, and nice animation pace/speed.
excellent parody, it seems that you know da way!111

keep it up.

[Mortarman rotoscope]

really fluid, detailed and realistic rotoscope animation!

i would like to see more like this work from you.
keep it up!

inkstickart responds:

thankyou! I think if I do it again it won't take me as long, this was my first time doing this style of animation so it was learning experience for sure!!

[Clock Love]

an excellent chronicle of bluestone-clock's everlasting friendship with vuvuzela clock, who adores him.

what a nice story, what a good friendship!
all the character's drawings were nicely designed, with good linework and an interesting style, while the TTS voices were good, and the animation has a nice pace.

i also think that phonograph-clock's intro where he was singing opera was one of the best parts of the movie.
good idea!

all in all, its a great CC cartoon, and i enjoyed it alot.
keep up the good work!

[Can I drive?]

nice play on an old CC joke...

i like how you used the old CC joke of SBC saying ''can i drive?'' into a new, and funny situation.
the digital voices were good, the talking arrow was nicely animated, and i liked that you've transformed orange-clock into... orange-clock(the company of phone, lol!)!

apart from that, seeing SBC riding a cadillac and moving into the final scene of the movie, all this was really cool and enjoyable to watch.

you've created a good movie once again, and it was very cool.
keep up the good work!

PS: my only suggestions would be to:
-add a preloader and/or a play/replay button (your replay button wasnt working, it was just a text).
-make more funny movies like this.
-add more funny jokes, if you want.

RealRedbookClock responds:

I put a preloader now.

[Geenie Reenie]

this is an amazing, and very unique animation!

both the linework of your drawings, their eyes+face expressions, the vivid colours and the funny sound effects, every single thing in your movie is perfectly combined in order to create a slightly creepy+uncomfortable atmosphere, while remaining still cute+funny at the same time! (which is a rare sight, to be honest).

i liked how the big ghost (geenie reenie) and the smaller ghost (dozen) are both using the computer, and as the big ghost is just reading its emails, the little ghost wants to use the computer for his own silly purposes!
but as the big ghost gets distracted by the little ghostlets in the yard trying to fix the fence, little ghost takes the lead and he suddenly starts typing random stuff on the PC.
then, little ghost opens a suspicious email, and hilarity ensues! LOL!
i loved the sound effects in that one as well, and the squeakie sounds of the big ghost when it was trying to move around (it sounded like a huge balloon, and it was really original, because ghostly characters rarely have any sounds in their movements), while i also liked the sound of the scissors clipping the power lines...

all in all, its a nicely animated, funny, cute, beautiful and cleverly written movie, filled with many beautiful visuals and incredible details, while the colours, the linework, the sound effects and the ''HI'' voices of the ghosts as they were talking to eachother were truly spectacular.

it was a great movie, and i would love to see more of this/more like this.
keep up the GREAT work!

[Baron Von Shakenburg's Dessert Catering Ad]

this was a really nicely organised song, with good vocals, clever lyrics and a great puppet, which was very well-made as well.

your background animations for the steven universe characters demise were really good, and your character's singing and dancing was superb, so i really enjoyed your movie.

it was great stuff, and it had a cool, creepy song to hear, which was very cleverly done.
keep up the good work!

GruntVonVeizatun responds:

Thank you! took me a while to build the puppet, so I appreciate the in depth review. :)

[CHASE.fla]

once again, krinkels has created a masterpiece.

the new features of this movie (within the madness-universe of ''nevada''), are quite impressive: bubbles that are access points into a different dimension within the ''improbability drive'' area, portals that break through reality (or life) and help people to enter a new realm for scientific purposes, and the depiction of gravity devices, which can manipulate (or even 'freeze') gravity into a vertical/horizontal position.
(the use of devices that can alter gravity horizontally/vertically DID remind me of the epic game ''submachine'', so if that was a cool reference to this great game, then good for you!)

all the backgrounds were nicely drawn and with many hints+details on them, all the weapons were nicely drawn, the character's movements/fighting/animation was flawless, and there were many good things to see in this movie: strange items, abysmal portals and the return of deimos from the dead!

apparently, if deimos will escape from this ''improbability drive'' realm, perhaps he could return back to the world of the living? i hope so.

one of the coolest elements of the madness series was how hank j. wimbleton evolved from a mindless killer into a man with a mission: to bring down the overlords of nevada, and most importantly, the auditor.
another great part of the madnessian lore is how 2 random(?) madness dudes decided to help hank in his quest to save the universe, and how they became unique+well-defined in a short time: deimos and sanford are some really nice, memorable characters and thats just one of the many reasons why the madness series is so great, so interesting and so well-loved.

this was a short movie, but any movie from you is a welcome sight, krinkels.
stay cool, and keep creating great movies!
you're awesome.