chris-the-stick's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Cabinet HO!]

good animation, and good face expression, and good face drawings, despite them being odd. i also enjoyed the whole ''thundercats'' transformation, and ''battle'' going on.
still, what this had to do with the cabinet and politics?
odd but good!

TheStoryTimes responds:

Cheers, Chris. Odd but good - I'll take that. Follow me at www.youtube.com/thestorytimesextra for the weekly episodes.

[Popeye's Chicken]

the face drawings, and the animation were great. who was the person sweating at 1:03?
if that's your first attempt on animating, you're either:
1) kidding with us or
2) you have great skills in flash or
3) both.

anyways, the faces are perfect. the ones of an average guy, of the popeye, of freddie mercury, of morgan freeman, or of snoop dog...GREAT!

keep it up, mate. you have serious skills.

my only complaint: this flash had no popeye in it. it needs more popeye. fighting crime.
and it needs more action! but it's perfect, so keep it up!

Jaskirats responds:

Oh the person at 1:03 would have been me. It's the face I use in my Rape Sloth comics I make. And yes to be honest, it was my first time animating. I'll be uploading another animation in a little bit.

[STT Pt. 2 Trailer]

OMG SONIC!!! it's so great, i wonder what will happen next!
btw, did you used your own sprites, or some from an appropriate site?
also, was this on FBF, or via tweens?

i would also like to know what's your main thoughts about the story. give us a little background.
good film.

Payn responds:

I did not use my own sprites, I got them from various sites and people.
This movie was an FBF, but in my next one I'll be using tweens aswell.

Sonic had gone forth in time, and finds shocking news about some of his friends, everything is different, and Sonic will train and become stronger to save the day once again. That's all I can say for now I'm afraid. If you want to know more, you can find Episode 1 of Sonic Time Travels in my channel. There might be some clues of what's going to happen.

[silly greek cartoon]

well, despite the odd humour, and the obvious inside-joke fashion, i think that this is a GOOD cartoon. i mean, the animation is pretty fluid, and the charcaters are original, and quircky, which is fun.

also, the reason on why i voted five is that the characters are VERY original,a nd well-designed, but hillarious as well.
why is the duck so evil/stoned? what's it's purpose?
and why is the moustache man always naked? or is he just not wearing a shirt?
odd.

also, i can understand a bit of the language, so the guy says:
guy: ''duck, are you OK?''
guy: ''i would like a bag so much right now!''
duck: ''here. paper-bag....'' (shows a ketchup-stained bag)
guy: ''AHHHHH!!!''

that's it. but it's funny, and has potential, so, next time, add a preloader, keep the same, and maybe add more characters, and make a plot that won't be as an''inside-joke'' as this one ahs been.

ok? good flash, nontheless.

antreas-animations responds:

Wow thanks! You guessed the dialogue right! The naked moustache guy is supposed to be doland's(The evil duck)best friend/lover! Thank you very much for your positive review! They're extremely poor that's why the man is always naked! (he is not completely naked-The only thing he wears all the time is a green speedo with orange flowers )

[Lolcats Reloaded: Ep. 1]

a really well-done animation, a great cartoon, and i loved the whole expressions, and the swift movements of the characters, but i have to ask:
is this a story that looks like the matrix? is it something that occurs in a time long after the lolcats series has ended?
because it seems to be happening in a different realm than the one of the original ''lolcats'', and it's a bit confusing.

tho, it's good, dont let my confusion fool you, it's great, and if you can make more like this, i will be pleased (as well as 100000 people in here, too)
tho, i think it would be nice to give us a haeds-up on the story,a nd what is going on, more or less.
is this ''evil cat'' (i dont know his name, so im gonna just call him ''hell-cat'') the ruler os the bad guyhs in the lolcat world?
and why did he captured the classy happy-cat? what's his plan?
will he kidnap all the lolcats in the universe, including the ordinary-cat, like orion?
hmmm.... this eems interesting, tho.
i can suggest more ''lolcats'' if you desire, so that you can add more to the storyline.

anyway, you got a tv-deal? great! i hope that you will get your sereies on tv,i really do, because it's really funny, man!

also: i liked the opening scene, the dancing on neon lights, totally reminded me of teh matrix, the title helped too, i won't lie, also the scene where the milk was raining in the club, reminded me of the ''blade'' vampire movie, which had a similar scene.

so, all in all, it was good, great animation, good story(even if vague for now) and fun dialogue.
keep it up, and keep us updated.

jiggitysmith responds:

Basically I made this in my spare time while unemployed. The story is more of a modernized stylistic gritty reboot of the original, so no, it doesn't happen on a different timeline or anything of that sort. I never got a tv deal, though I would have hoped for one if I had completed this story like I had intended.

It's been so long that I've thought of this series, I'll try my best to summarize some of my intentions as I can barely remember. Endcat set up the altercation with the lolrus and cookie cat in order to steal the bucket, which contained the (captain planet) rings to summon al gore (the architect). He swapped out happycat with the doppleganger to get the staff of ether maybe, I forget (plus 'evil happy cat' is just a funny concept to me)

The basic formula to this story was that longcat was the power of good, channeled through ceiling cat, tacgnol was the power of evil, channeled through endcat, and orion was the balancing power of neutrality (hence why he's so boring, regular, and doesn't seem to sway in either direction unless the balance of power is disrupted). It goes back further, though, as orion was/is just beta testing by al gore and the internet was rebooted several times after several catnaroks (good and evil just fought with each other, too much good was boring - think of a story with no conflicts, too much evil was, evil).

The underlying message was going to show just how neutrality was necessary for the internet as a regulator. Endcat and ceiling cat were aware of these reboots, however, and it drove him mad, so endcat needed the staff of ether and the rings of power in order to drop the 'fire wall' (also a legitimate ring of fire around catopia) to get out of catopia / leave it exposed and go into the real world, then he could avoid the reboots.

The cookie cat / pedro sidestory is that cookie cat could see into the future (to the point where he would constantly rub his shoulder to see if what he was seeing was actually real) and was commissioned by the king to help figure out what endcat was doing. In the end, endcat does make it out and takes over google, ending the series with the company motto written as 'be evil,' then he thinks, "oh yeah, lie" or something and writes "don't" in front of the motto. The other effect that happens is that, because the firewall is down, the lolcats get released into the full-blown internet and people (Besides al gore) discover them for the first time, hence why we have them in the first place.

I have a notebook with most of it written out somewhere, but a lot of it wasn't formulated around the time I realized there was no way I was ever going to finish this. I was too big of a perfectionist at this stage in my animating and I wanted to make the whole thing as polished as what you see here and I really don't have time to ever finish the series, considering how little interest there was in the reboot (and having a wife and house that requires me to play handyman).

I hope to one day return to animating when I have more time, but I doubt if I'll ever return to the cats. As you can see, it would have eventually made sense in episodes 3+, but I went all quentin tarrintino on the editing and what I could get done before working again doesn't make sense on the surface. Hope you enjoyed what I made, I'm pretty darn proud of the stylistic animating I churned out, but I basically got to the point where learning to draw to convey the visions in my head wound up being the easier-to-attain route.

[Souper Games: Carrot Boy]

cool, but you should also make a game like that.
good animation, do more.

SavvyOverDog responds:

Wat. You serious? I dunno..maybe x.x

[A Real Hero]

ok, he's a good actor, but he's not THAT pretty or THAT charming.
tho, the driver movie was good. no, it was GREAT.

also, this movie was good and entertaining.
do more. good animation style, i liked it.

JamiePaulSmith responds:

Thanks for the feedback dude! It's much appreciated.

[The Raging Vagrant]

what a wonderfull claymation!
i havent seen one for years, and a good one, more likely!
this one is GREAT! how long did it took for u to create this piece?

also, what type of camera did you used, and what program? im really curious, because i experiment with clay, so sorry if i ask so many questions.

that was great, and i liked the whole details from the thunder black and white of the image (like blinking), to the beady eyes of the alien, i really wonder how did you made the black on and off, for the thunder effect, it was cool...(it's ok if you dont want to tell)

tho, the animation was fun, and cool, the characters VERY well-done, and quite complicated, and the story overall was good.

even the lipsyncing was great, i bet that this was r. hard. it is.

so, do more, you rock!
great stuff, right here!

GloineFiodh responds:

This piece was about a years worth of work on and off. I used a canon 60D to shoot and work in a program called Dragon Frame. The flickering you're referring to was done by putting pieces of cardboard in front of one of my lights (I had 3 total) and taking a frame and just mixing up where the cardboard was. The puppets aren't actually clay but casted in silicone with ball and socket armatures inside (a pain in the ass). Lipsyncing isn't that hard if you have any experience with exposure sheets. You sculpt tiny mouths for each shape you make when speaking, and I put magnets in the back of the mouth, and a tiny magnet on the face where the mouth goes. Im glad you can appreciate this though! Thank you for the review, let me know if you have any more questions, I know a lot of great youtube videos regarding Stop Motion.

[BBroken Camera]

great movie, even though, this was a lie, i could totally win that duck.fla, that's how i tamed it, and it's now my trusty companion in over 9000 adventures around clocktopia, and it's the way i made my duck.fla farm, with hundrends of them to breed/sell.

Alphaman responds:

That`s one good story.