Auz's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Sealed Fate]

Nice

I think this movie is quite funny and cute. My favourite moment was when the octopus jumped out of the water with a "WWWHAAAAAH" sound. Also liked the rubber ducky and I thought it was cute how the seal went to chew on it (or whatever he did) :3

You used sounds and music quite nicely and the drawings were well done I'd say. I especially liked the clouds in the background. Everything else looked good too. I only think the octopus was a bit... as if he broke all his tentacles at four different places, but it's no biggie and perhaps only added to the silliness and cuteness of this submission.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. This is definitely one of my favourite ones I've seen so far (coming from your class). Great job and good luck with the grading and everything. I'm sure this'll be a pass though.

~Auz

[A flash made of B's:Part5]

FFFFFFFFF-

Unfortunately this review deletion contained a ban notification and it got deleted from my inbox when my review ban was lifted so no easy copy pasting to recover this one alas. To be honest I can't be arsed to type it all out again and I can't remember that well what I wrote anyway so heh...

Lovely submission. Epic milestone in cinema history. Nice homage to early 30's cinema. Yada yada.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Looking forward to another sequel next year :p

~Auz

Haggard responds:

And I can't remember what I wrote in the response. Too bad.

[Explaining Clock Day]

Happy Clock Day!

Lol. Little history lesson for all those noobies out there. Though you forgot to mention how we are now flooding the portal with crap every year and vote 5 on everything. But maybe the penguin was about to explain that when he blew up.

Anyway, I don't know if you drew the penguin yourself, but it looks rather nice I think. I think a replay button after the ending would have been nice, but then again it's not such a big deal. Let's not put too much effort into a silly clock day submission ^^

Overall 7 out of 10. By the way, I'm still eagerly awaiting the sequel to 'A Flash Made of B's part 4' ;)

~Auz

PS: This is a resubmit. Reply plox? :(

Haggard responds:

"Reply plox? :(!

NO!

[The Real Legend 4]

Pretty good episode, but it did feel rushed

It's been a while since I last watched anything from this series. I thought you sort of gave up on it or it would be one of those endless 'works in progress', but then suddenly another episode pops up.

Anyway, this is a pretty good episode, although it felt a bit short and I remember the older ones to contain more jokes and pranks. Perhaps you could've done something with how you constantly had to switch boots in the Water Temple in the game, or how you had to keep raising and lowering the water level. I don't know, in any case, it did feel a bit short and rushed like lots of people appear to be noticing.

I would personally be okay with it if you put a little less effort into the effects and drawings if that would mean your file turns out less heavy and you can make longer episodes in less time. I do like the graphics of the later episodes, but this is only a parody/comedy series and all these effects and nice drawings aren't really necessary to make it good.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. It's nice knowing that the series hasn't died, but I think it might be a good idea to make a conclusion soon. Another three episodes of Link going through the Spirit and Shadow Temple and then to Ganons Castle could be a bit too much. If I were you I'd do two more at most.

~Auz

[Warriors of the Portal]

Well above todays standards

This is an amazing piece of work which is well above NG's standards today. It's been a long time since I last saw a movie as impressive as this one. Sure, there have been plenty of good movies and games lately, but you rarely see one this groundbreaking.

I think the graphics were very well done. You altered the characters nicely from drawings to 3D models to make them fit into the movies 'universe' and make it somewhat realistic. I've seen big budget cinema films who did a worse job at translating drawn characters into the 'real world'. So in my opinion you did a great job there. The animation was also good, but there were a few times where the battle sequences looked a bit stiff. For some reason I mainly had this with scenes involving Larry. Another small point of criticism on the graphics is that some shots were a bit vague or of low quality. I don't think this was always intentional.

As for the plot of the movie, it's pretty simple, but the movie seems more like a 3D experiment to me so I can imagine there isn't much focus on writing a great plot for it. Of course it's already awesome enough that well known NG characters are brawling it out in a 'last man standing' match.

Overall 10 out of 10, 5 out of 5. I hope we're gonna see more of this kind of stuff after the redesign has taken place. I believe Tom said there will be more room for movies created with alternative software from Flash, so I hope people will be inspired by this movie and cook up some great stuff.

~Auz