Auz's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Mighty Quinn]

Pretty good

Hey not bad. Deffinatly not bad. The style of the movie was quite nice, with all the colors and the 60's music. I must say I actually kinda liked the song. I´m personally quite a fan of 60's and 70's music, so good choice of music in my opinion. Also it´s nice to see a music video with an older song. The average choice of music here is songs from bands like Muse (really don´t like them) or Linkin Park or whatever, so it´s nice to see a change.

As for what to improve. Well, the drawings could´ve been slightly better. And then I am especially talking about the people in the movie, as most of the other stuff looked nice actually (pidgeons were very good). I´m not saying that the people were drawn badly, it was surely much better then I have ever done, but still they seemed fairly basic.

Another complaint that I have is that the movie kinda dragged on a bit. It was rather long and I must admit that I got kinda bored in the end. So perhaps next time make your vids a little shorter (or find a way to keep it interesting until the very end).

Overall 7 out of 10, 3 out of 5. All in all I must say I liked it really. I think you have quite a lot of potential. I would say just keep practicing on drawing and I´m sure you´re not gonna have that much trouble with winning any awards in the future.

~Auz

CSanimations responds:

Thanks. That was a good encouragement. I'm glad SOMEBODY noticed the pigeons!
Lol. Yeah, my drawing still need work, I must admit.

[Zoras Need Cafine]

Another funny voice-over

This was a funny little short in my opinion. Not the best thing I´ve seen from you, but certainly a very nice one. Good voice-acting once again, you got a good voice for these sort of things and you also have a good microphone it seems since the recording is of good quality. You voiced the girl really well too by the way.

Anyways, I thought the last shot was quite hilarious and timed really well. I had to laught pretty hard there. Also liked the "I´m gonna wright a song about it"-joke, that really seemed to come out of nowhere :p Did you improvise that or what? Those were the best moments in my opinion, the rest of the movie was alright.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. Indeed it gave me a decent laugh. It was a little short, but sweet. Hope you´re gonna continue making these. Keep up the excellent work and good luck with any future projects.

~Auz

[Old Lady Vs. Chicken]

Funny little short

Quite a funny little short, managed to put a smile on my face. I especially liked the style of this movie. The colors you used, the text, the simple music, the foot picture in the end. The foot kinda reminded me a bit of the Quest for the Holy Grail movie by Monty Python. But anyways, that was all nice in my opinion.

As for the bad stuff, well it was indeed very short with not much of a plot and it didn´t really make much sense or anything. But I suppose the only goal was just to make a funny little short and I think it did succeed in that. The only thing I could say is, perhaps you should add a replay button. Couldn´t find one in the ending screen and I did want to see it again before reviewing. I could of course just press right mouse button and press play, which works but it´s a bit unprofessional.

Overall 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Not a great movie, but it was nice. I do hope you´re gonna continue making flashes, because this was promising in my opinion. I think you´re able to make award winning material if you put some extra effort in making flashes. Anyway, keep up the good work and good luck with any future projects.

~Auz

ForNoReason responds:

Thanks for reviewing!

[Zelda: Don Keyote 3]

Another good one

Another great episode. Liked the reference to Ocarina of Time and the scene that came along with it. "Now you are paralyzed in my magical circle of arrows" made me laugh. "Did you know that crime is a criminal offence in this area?" was another funny line.

As for the voice-acting: The girls voice sounded a bit weird in my opinion. It was good, but reminded me of a typical voice-actor for cartoons on tv. Especially during the first lines that she said. Later I thought she (or he I could hardly tell) did a bit worse, but it was still fine overall.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. So I watched and reviewed all the episodes now. If I had to put the episodes in order of how much I like them, it would be 1,4,3,2 probably. Four and three being almost a tie. Anyway, as I already stated in former reviews, I liked this series a lot. Very entertaining and it has become one of my favorite series on Newgrounds. I think WW was a very good choice for the story you created and is generally a good game to create funny movies like these with. Hope you´re gonna make some more in the future with WW´s Link as a main character.

~Auz

[Zelda: Don Keyote 2]

Nice one again

Lol nice episode again. Not my favorite to be honest, but it had it´s moments and was again a very enjoyable one to watch. I liked what you did with the in-game expressions on Links face again. The commentary you gave again fitted well with the faces he made. Especially "What was I doing again?" with the huge hammer in his hands.

Also liked the slow motion scene, and had to laugh at: "if it isn´t one of those cute little boys who carry around a dangerous arsenal of weapons" :p What I couldn´t understand by the way was what the little girl said in the flashbacks. I assume it´s something funny that doesn´t really make sense, but couldn´t hear it sadly. Subtitles would be nice in such cases, but the voice-acting is good and clear for the rest so perhaps subtitles are not that necessary.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Wasn´t the best episode like I said, but still a very good one. Added this one to favorites as well. So that leaves only one episode that I haven´t reviewed yet, and that´s the third one. Off to review it now.

~Auz

[The Real Legend 3]

Nice

If I remember the graphics from the real legend 2 well, I can see you really improved on animating and drawings over the years. Especially the first scenes were very impressive with nice effects and details. I also liked the music you used, re-orchestrated versions of the original themes. I wonder if you got them from zreomusic, I thought I heard some themes in this that were from that site.

The voice-acting wasn´t always that great in my opinion though, which caused that some jokes didn´t come over as well as they should´ve. And I didn´t like all the jokes to be honest, but some were pretty funny. The Jabu-Jabu´s belly scene, the Darunia scene and the scene where he broke into the house were nice ones. The twisting head was also a bit weird but funny nonetheless, I kinda like those kind of jokes.

Another thing, I missed a scene selection/menu. Wanted to view some scenes again before reviewing it and had to sit through the entire movie again. So, a scene selection would be nice next time.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. I enjoyed watching it and I´m looking forward to the next episode. Hopefully it won´t take another few years, but I can imagine you wanna take your time for these. Shorter episodes is indeed a good idea, I´d rather see 3 minutes every few months than 15 minutes every few years. Keep up the excellent work and good luck with your next projects.

~Auz

[My Zelda Cd-i cutscenes]

Couldn´t understand a word

I could barily hear a single word in this movie. The only point that was slightly understandible was the part with Ganon, but even that was still very unclear and I only heard: "It buuurrrrnsss". If I could´ve actually heard what was said, I think it would have been way funnier. Just a bunch of shouting and random noise isn´t really my type of humor to be honest.

So what I suggest next time is you create some funny dialogue and actually make it understandible to the viewer. I suppose a little noise and shouting is okay since it is a spam/parody flash after all, but perhaps put some subtitles in so that we can also get a laugh from it.

The drawings and animation were the only thing that were at least a little bit good by the way. With that, I do think you could produce some good flashes if you actually wanted to.

Overall 2 out 10, 1 out of 5. I have to give it to you though, it still is an "improvement on the game" as the dialogue in the original was so horrible that you´d rather listen to the noise in this one.

~Auz

[Zelda: Don Keyote]

Hilarious

I think this is one of the funniest series I have ever seen on Newgrounds. The way you put this all together and timed all the jokes is just perfect in my opinion. Your voiceacting in combination with the expressions on Links faces in the game really gave some hilarious scenes. I laughed pretty hard at "He was saved by a young girl.... who couldn´t hang on for very long" and "Time for some friendly interrogation" for example.

As for the technical stuff. The graphics were pretty much "stolen" from the game, but at least they were of decent quality. I just couldn´t really see the windmill in the beginning because it was too dark, but that was alright. The voices/sounds are really good as I have pretty much already stated above. You got a good voice for these sort of things and the jokes came over really well.

The only thing that I missed was a replay button in the end. It´s not such a big deal, but it´s not that hard to make either. So if you ever, ever plan on looking back at this movie and want to improve it a bit, I´d say add a replay button.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Even though the movie is not perfect as my score would suggest, it was very entertaining to me and I think that´s what it´s all about in the end. Even after these years I still hope Don Keyote 5 is gonna come out someday, but I´m not counting on it anymore.

~Auz

[Zelda: Heart for the Hero]

Very funny

This was quite a funny Zelda short. It put a smile on my face and not many movies here can do that. I think it´s good that many of the inside jokes, like the stuff they sold in the shop and the kill Navi thing, were placed very subtle. Better than putting them in as main jokes.

Other than it being a funny movie, the graphics were also great. You got a good drawing style and you can animate pretty good as well. As for the sounds and the music: The music was alright in my opinion. It were usually ordinary Zelda themes, but it´s nice that you made a remix by yourself for the ending credits. The voice acting that you did was good as well. You got a good voice for these sort of things, which is quite a rare talent I think.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Personally I did not expect that this would remain in the top 50 for so long. I thought this movie would eventually get bumped out of it without ever returning again, like so many other great movies here. But nowadays I still see it in top 50 often, which must mean that you made an NG classic with this. You surely did a great job and I added this movie to favorites as soon as it came out. I hope you´re gonna make another Zelda short someday. Keep up the excellent work.

~Auz

[Bitey of Brackenwood]

Awesome

A great first episode this was (this is officially the first right?). I´ve already said it many times, your drawings are amazing. Even now, almost five years later, I rarely see anything with more beautiful shots as this. The animating is also good. It´s not as good as you do nowadays, but it´s still excellent to me.

Music and sound are great as always. Nice tunes, and I thought it was funny that the yellow thing sounded exactly like one of those plastic balls.

As for the plot. Several character were introduced in this first episode, and as far as the series goes now, they haven´t quite.. come back or developed yet. Personally I do hope that the witch will return in a feature episode. It seems to me like you could make an interesting character out of her. Perhaps you could make a little side-story with her. Just an idea...

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Along with Prowlies at the River, I´ve also added this to favorites when I just signed up on Newgrounds, almost 4 years ago. It still is one of my all time favorites up to this day. Keep up the excellent work and I´m looking forward to the next episode of this series.

~Auz