Fatmandoo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Killing Spree VI]

Ouch.

Sorry Samus guy, it looks pretty and all but practically putting the ENTIRE MOVIE IN SLOW MOTION does not make it exciting in the slightest. The last thing you want is for this movie to be boring being an action flick and all, but you had all these fancy spinny effects and slow motion for the guy doing a standard KICK, not to mention all the slow moving montages of faces looking angry. This movie moved at a slug's pace and I yawned. Yeah the Swift 3D looks great and all but as it is, to me this was a snorefest.

Also, the music choice didn't go with the movie at all. Bleeding Mascara didn't exactly go with a multi-camera, slow-motion shot of a guy turning around.

This isn't to be disrespectful, this is my honest opinion on the movie. Just like too many cooks spoil the broth, two many dull slow-motion montages of trivial things spoil the Flash. You get a 5, and a 3 on the voting scale.

-Dave

[Joe Zombie :: Episode 6]

YESS!!!

fucking amazing Rob. Clearly the best JZ yet. Here's to the top spot on the NG top 50 :). Well fucking done.

-Dave

[Dendyn Dynasties]

HOLY CRAP!!

I usually hate anime-type fight movies (full of clichés) but this one put the rest to shame, as well as the animation of most anime you find on TV and DVD! The frame by frame motion is so goddamn fluid and realistic. The music was twee but it fit the whole thing well. As a showcase of your animating abilities this is amazing. Well done!

-Dave

[The New Years Party 2]

HAhaha.

The guy below me is a chump with no sense of irony. This is fantastic. What was originally a dumb skit about a guy suddenly breaking out with a scatman dance has been turned into an epic of fucked up proportions. Crazy stuff. The blatant gratuitous boning sequence should've been a hint that this movie wasn't serious. The fucking music at the end was the most amazing contrast ever as well. Keep this shit up dude.

-Dave

dookiemoole responds:

thanks lol

[Say Something!]

HAHA YES!

You've made my day. I HATE those things. The most enjoyable moment was when the smiley jumped out of the guy's screen with a "HEEELLLOOOO!?!?!" The guy's expression after this depicts EXACTLY the type of reaction anyone would give. Those smileys are just so damn... hateful. Thanks :).

-Dave

[Fishes (pitch)]

HAHAHA.

Alex Zima is the king. Stupid stuff like this is what NG needs more of instead of your 20 minute long cliché anime epics. Great music too. MORE!

[StarWarsAFP: Part 1 Act 1]

Haha! I can explain my score perfectly here.

First of all, I enjoy the choppiness in this movie! I think it adds to the sense of silly parody, considering Star Wars itself is so damn slick and overproduced. The little movements made when the characters talking such as their heads bobbing about really add to the humour in a subtle way. So keep those.

Keep the animation the way it is, but I'd suggest improving some of the drawings. I'm sure that'll come with time.

The only beef I have with this movie is the voice acting. I am sorry, but it is horrible and does actually ruin the movie for me.

Get this: When I have the speakers turned off and I watch the movie with just the subtitles I find this movie hilarious (especially the card scene between Fett and Vader). My friend and I really pissed ourselves at that scene in university, but when I came home to watch it again with sound I found that the voice-acting just killed anything funny being said. I mean, listen to Obi 1 at the start of the movie. He's meant to be shouting but it doesn't sound like it. It just sounds like a small boy pretending to shout. I know its awkward when you try to pull off convincing voice acting when there's other people around but its well worth trying harder. Please keep that in consideration.

Ignoring the sound the humour was pretty spot on! Personally I didn't enjoy 2 as much because it was much more of a direct dig at George Lucas rather than a subtle pisstake. Throwing Vader into that card situation still has me giggling thinking about it.

Keep up the good work :). I'm hoping to release the long awaited Stick Wars Episode III (started last May as soon as I saw SW3) so please keep an eye out. I'd like to hear your feedback also.

-Dave (Fatmandoo)

silentmike86 responds:

Cool great to get a review from a fellow author

Yeah these were the old days where I didn't really know what I was doing, probably good advice to mute it so you don't have to here the bad acting or the awful sound quality.

I actually upped my style a little now, not sure if you've gotten a chance to see TF 2 (my latest cartoon) which has a slightly improved animation, but I’m now trying to animate to TV standard. No more of those striate flip heads when they turn, soon you will see them turn as if they were 3D...sort of...well not really 3D but you know what I mean.

For what little I have animated of part 2 the heads still bop around hehe, but there is also a little cartoon expression where the shape of Boba and Vader’s eye's change shape to indicate more emotion. But overall the style hasn't changed much.

Anyway thanks for the feedback, can’t wait to see Stick Wars Episode III :)

Thanks

Mike

[DIFFERENT3]

FINALLY!!

Glad you got this one out at last. Loving the music, and all the crazy stuff is awesome. Its quite a trip. 5ived.

[Burnt Face Man 5]

Ummm...

Well, after the last 4 episodes (which I loved) this one comes as a bit of a disappointment. It feels very rough and disjointed. The whole thing feels like a bunch of scenes badly linked together with no plot at all, and some of the humour feels as though you're trying far too hard to be random.

Random humour doesn't work in spades, and for the most part you killed the whole BFM premise with things like Mel Gibson's safari and the steel horse. Some of the drawings have been changed too, such as the motions used for the mouths when talking. They look a lot more basic.

Overrall I laughed at a couple of things, such as Man-Spider in the bath and the "Back With The Boys Again!" thing but thats about it. A big disappointment for BFM. If you're going to make a 6th, watch the first few and see the difference in quality between those and this please.

[The Stick Collection Pt 1]

A refreshing change from the usual bullshit on NG.

Holy shit, a visual masterpiece, and none of it was tweening! I especially loved the emotions involved. Gripping stuff.

This deserves front page!