Auz's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[LoL: Oh Yes And Spiders]

Excellent

As far as sprite movies can go, this was a very nice piece of work. I think you did an amazing job editing all those sprites for this flash. They looked very good most of the time. I especially liked the brownish pictures in the beginning. Best part graphicwise if you ask me.

As for the voice acting: I personally thought it was pretty good. I like how you used voices instead of plain text. All the actors who worked on this did a good job. I just thought Zelda sounded a bit old for some reason. She doesn´t quite have the voice I would imagine her to have in the original videogames. I mean, in most of the videogames I would assume her to be 16~20 and have a girlish voice, but I thought she sounded much older here. But then again, it´s probably hard enough already to find some decent voice-actors for a cartoon.

What I would recommend for next time though is that you add a bit more speed to the scenes. Sometimes I had a feeling the story dragged on slowly and this went at the cost of some of the jokes. Also 20 minutes (?) is a bit of a long sit. You might wanna split it up in two episodes next time. That will also double (your chances of) awards and will probably get you much more exposure in the end ;)

Oh and by the way, there were also a lot of spelling mistakes in the subtitles. Sometimes there were even words there that weren´t even spoken. It´s not such a big deal, but it looks a bit clumsy so you might wanna fix that.

Overall 9 out of 10, 5 out of 5. Like I said I thought this was a very good piece of work. Would love to see more, but I guess I´ll have to wait a long time before another episode comes out. Anyway, keep up the excellent work and good luck with any future projects.

~Auz

Emptygoddess responds:

Sorry about the spelling issues. My spelling is horrible, I tried with all my tiny might to make it as spell perfect as i could. I failed.

I'm going to go cry now.

[Magikarp vs Metapod]

Nice

Well this was a pretty nice movie in my opinion. Like many others I also expected an endless loop of Splash and Harden, but the loop was broken quickly by Magikarp's Solarbeam. Perhaps it would´ve been funny if it kept looping, but that´s not original anymore. Anyway, I thought this was a fairly good parody of Splash Attack. The drawings and music were nice and the jokes were pretty good.

There were still a few things that could improve though. The voice-acting could´ve been slightly better, and the quality of the sound/microphone wasn´t that super. But it certainly was not bad either. Also you could improve on the animation a bit. Sometimes I thought the animation didn´t look so smooth. Especially with the camera zooming in and out.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. I enjoyed watching it, nicely made movie. Keep up the good work and good luck with any future projects.

~Auz

PostTimeskipSam responds:

Thanks, well the voice-acting was really just yelling into the microphone so that did take a toll on the quality, but thanks for the suggestions and I will keep those in mind.

[Merry Cupcake]

Not bad

Not a bad animation. I must say I did kinda like it. There´s still some stuff that could be improved though.

The drawings of this movie in itself weren´t that impressive. Both the characters and the stuff in the room seemed pretty basic. So they could be a little better and I suggest you practice with that. Perhaps you should especially practice with the use of colors and shades. I think that would improve it a lot. The animation was pretty good on the other hand. Except for when the cupcake 'came out of his eye'. That part seemed a little choppy, adding a few more frames would fix that I suppose.

Also, I suggest adding subtitles. In some parts I really couldn´t hear what was said. Not that it mattered that much in this case because I got the overall joke, but perhaps in your other projects it could be a problem.

The backgroundmusic was nice I thought. It helped giving the movie an overdramatic atmosphere, which added to the humor of the flash. The voice-acting was alright in my opinion. Could be better, but it´s probably pretty hard to find really good voice-actors so it´s fine this way.

Overall 6 out of 10, 3 out of 5. Well, I did kinda like it as I said above. Just keep practicing and I`m sure you´ll produce some great flashes someday. Keep it up and good luck with any future projects.

~Auz

Assios responds:

Thanks!;)

[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!

[LOZOOT "Stop and listen"]

Great

This was a good movie in my opinion. I can see you have a lot of talent with drawing and animating, cause everything looked great. Also, I think you have a good voice for the voice-acting. The dekutree really sounded like an old man and Navi like a little girl (I can hardly imagine this was done by the same guy).

The only big complaint that I have is, like everyone else pretty much said already, it´s hard to hear what the great deku tree is saying. I could understand most of the words the second time I was listening, but I had to listen very very carefully. Subtitles would deffinatly be nice.

I also think the ending of the movie could have been done a bit better. I thought there was still gonna be one good joke, but then the screen turned white and that was it. Just make that final shot a few frames shorter and perhaps make it slowly fade away. You know how to do that right? Just add a big, black or white square in the upper layer and put the alpha on 0%. Then create a shape tween and make it go to 100%. It´s just a small detail, but it looks a lot nicer in my opinion.

Overall 8 out of 10, 4 out of 5. To be honest I´m a little suprised that this movie got through with a score of only 2.69. I guess that is mainly because of the conversation that was so diffecult to follow. I think if you had added subtitles, it could easily get a 3.00+ score. It might even be award material. Anyways, I do hope that you´re gonna make another one. Like I said, you deffinatly have a lot of talent when it comes to making flash movies. Keep up the good work.

~Auz

Axxe17 responds:

eyah im so fresh to this program, so really i would love some help on it^^; thankyou very much for the advice, and hahah yeah that was really me doing navi, i was using some kind of voice changer, but only a pinch