DumbassDude's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Thomas the elf]

Oh how I loved this flash...

Good Points:
This humor was excellent, I love how you portrayed the elf and how he ended up. The animation was smooth and fine, the art was clean and original on your part. It seemed to me like a plot of a movie over in a minute and a half, which I seemed hilarious, I especially loved the part at the end with Santa, didn't see that coming, nor did I see the elf joining in. The music was great, I can see why you didn't need any voice talents, it would have ruined the protagonist aspect of the main elf.

Bad Points:
I think you could have made it longer because it didn't seem to me like it was a 'short and sweet' flash, I felt you were just lacking time or something, I think you could have delved into the north pole section more, perhaps if he explored the workshop and came across more things he didn't expect, like weird reindeer or something.

Overall:
I very much loved this flash, but there is definite room for improvement. Good work mate =3

peixeaquatico responds:

Thanks dude

[Orange Adventure Xmas]

Pretty cool =3

Good Points:
Definitely improving, because I've been watching your animations over the past few months and your style of animation was original yet sketchy at best, but I love how you are combining filters and photoshop to create a great mix of art and your overall abilities to animate are improving substantially. Nice funny moment at the end with the Santa Claus and the 1UP mushroom, made me chuckle. I can tell you have actually played Castle Crashers considering you based the animation around an actual level in the game, it gave me a sense of familiarness that made this flash make a lot more sense.

Bad Points:
In terms of improvement, I think you should concentrate mainly on anatomy, because there were moments were I thought to myself "That arm looks wrong.." or "His leg is very poorly drawn." I also think you shouldn't have recycled certain symbols, mainly the snow enemies, I think it would have looked better if the enemies were bigger in quantity because let's face it, it's always fun to see something differ greatly from the norm.

Overall:
Great animation, I really like your style. Good work.

Hulalaoo responds:

i just start to learn anatomy and draw in a small school of art this day, is a day for reborn :3

[I love the HALO World]

Highly cool.

Good Points:
It's one of the ideas that you really makes you wish you thought of it, because it's pretty damn original I must say. Awesome tune to go along to, short and sweet, combine that with Halo and oh my, delicious. The pre-loader animation and the introduction was cool, I also like how you took images from Halo CE and photoshopped them to look artistic, it wouldn't looked as good or gone aswell if you drew the backgrounds yourself. Smooth animations and good job portraying the Halo equivalent to the moments in the 'Boom De Ya Da' video.

Bad Points:
I felt you started to slip towards the end in creativity so there is definite room for improvement, perhaps if you added something else to the credits, maybe a small animation of fake bloopers, I think that would go well considering the events you included in the animation.

Overall:
Very good and catchy, hard to find faults, short and sweet.

Greenfrost6 responds:

Thanks for the detailed review. :)

[the Last of the Dashkin]

Amazing :D

Just want to say before I start.. 4 WEEKS? You are a machine, sure you didn't have the whole staff of Disney behind you while making this?

Good Points:
Well, it's amazing how much you have improved in the last 2 years, I had forgotten how long its been since Waterlollies, doesn't seem that long ago it was on the front page. You have added so much more detail, along with so much more colour, you have really explored your own boundaries and the Brackenwood universe. So fluent too, you may have had moments where Biteys movements were a little chalkey, but it was still impressive how well everything fell so in sync, I found myself looking more so at the environments.

Bad Points:
However, It felt short in comparison to the last installment which was disappointing. You may have answered all my questions, but you presented sooo many more, that it was a shame none of the new questions were answered. The story may have developed, but the cliffhanger really made me question why you hadn't just buckled down for another 4 weeks and delved into the story a little more.

Overall:
Fantastic story, fantastic art, fantastic music and narrator. It's very unforutnate that you couldn't make it longer and ultimately, make a perfect flash.

chluaid responds:

Sure I asked a lot of new questions and didn't answer them.... because this is half of a story! It's very tough to stay motivated through a sustained 4 weeks of 18-30 hour days. I was buckled down so tight it hurt.

I wasn't going to "buckle down for another 4 weeks" for anyone, so in order to A- preserve my sanity and B- keep 2009 from passing by without a Brackenwood release, I split the story at an exciting point. Yes a cliffhanger. Just like I did with hitchHiker 1 & 2, just like I did with littleFoot-Yuyu. Nobody complained about the 'to be continued' then. A cliffhanger was once an acceptable way of splitting a large project. Those were the days huh?

[Slappy Does Drugz]

Interesting...

Good Points:
The art style was pretty cool and I liked the constant changing of colours, without the effects of epilepsy. In some sense, good little loop to use in anti-drug presentations, kinda of. The inclusion of music wasn't neccessary, but I'm glad you added it because it added humour.

Bad Points:
Pretty pointless, it's just a recurring loop and shows very little effort put towards it, for a minute there I thought this was a Davidzx flash, but then realised the art wasn't recycled symbols.

Overall:
Pretty bad to be honest, try animation the guy's face next time, maybe another keyframe?

tehslaphappy responds:

Yeah, I could have animated his face, but what can you do? This was basically a 30 minute effort. Mostly done for the lulz. Thanks anyways Lee.

[FRED - Animated Series]

Short but sweet.

Good Points:
The introduction and music were good, it really gave you a happy feeling which is what Fred 'tries to do', but really you were just luring us into a false sense of security so when Fred was shot in the face we would react shocked yet positively. Unless of course your a fan of Fred.

Bad Points:
Too short and pretty pointless, I thought it was going to be much longer considering alot of your flashes are quite longer. It seems your going quite half arsed on your recent flashes, despite the cool animation styling of your flashes, including this one, it lacked most things your previous animations offered. I reccomend starting on a long term project.

Overall:
Decent animation, pretty lousy length and pretty much a kick in your own teeth.

Oney responds:

the whole sense of false security was the point. thanks for watching!

[Nameless 6 Vol.3 Part 1/2]

Hilarious, great animation.

Good Points:
The best, most hilarious part was definitly when they were interviewing chocolate lady about cripple boy then making fun of her sex life with a quadruple amputee. Your animation style is very fluent yet basic, it suits very well and helps the main characters stand out.

Bad Points:
The only thing I can complain about is the length of the episode, it may be 7 minutes long but it feels like it's only on for 3.

Overall:
Fantastic flash, definitly suits the score, I recommend making your flashes longer, not too longer but long enough to make the viewer satisfied, perhaps 10 minutes? Great animation non the less.

LazyMuffin responds:

Your bad point is silly, sorry.
I cant bend time and space and make 7 minutes feel like 14, and since it went by quickly, you must have not looked at the clock and just enjoyed it.

Also, theres another volume that's 6 more minutes, so buh. ):
Thanks anyway.

[Frost'D]

Very Funny Flash :3

Good Points:
I loved the artwork of this flash, your have a unique style which I really like. The voice acting was pretty good as well, pretty believable if you catch my drift. I especially liked the music, it seemed to fit really well, and just MADE the ending :D

Bad Points:
Too short, I know you heard it a million times but at the end of the day, thats a bad point, perhaps if you started a few weeks earlier you could have added perhaps an extra minute, drew it up to a higher quality and so on.

Overall:
Great Christmas flash MindChamber, still amazed you did it in a week. Good job.

MindChamber responds:

I agree an extra week or two wouldve been nice to polish up the artwork, but the length of it is perfect for the joke

[New Year Collab]

Nice Collab

Good Points:
Nice Collabaration, too bad i couldnt be in it, when I get my new computer, ill be back in no time =D
MetaBugs collab piece was most likely the funniest, its graphics were good and so was its concept, well done!
Little rena, i didnt much get yours, new years wishes and all that, but there wasnt much animation going on.
Ishirm, weird, all I can say, great but weird, I liked it =D
DiverN00b, your piece had meaning, and was good and had feeling, but you could have added some of your normal animation in the progress. Good Job though.
The sound was more or less good, and I liked the menu. The humour was great and the style was mixed of course, good job everyone.

Bad points:
IShirm, good part but the voice lacked, kind of grotty and requires you turning up your speakers. Little rena, try add some more animation as I have already stated. Would have been great with more parts from other people such as Drunken or N00bKing.

Overall:
Nice collab, though the improvements are something you guys should take under consideration.

[The Karnage Incident]

Great animation

Good Points:
Best animation I've seen this week, the action of this flash was thrilling and the smoothness of this animation was outstanding, it reminded me of 'There she is!!!', probably cos of the cats. The went so well with it too.

Bad Points:
I didnt see much plot to it, but I guess that was intentional, also it could have been longer, maybe quality toggling. Not much other than that, since it was good n'all.

Overall:
Great flash, i hope it gets an award.

NCH responds:

plot wise is like what kite ride's animations about his CCC city too, juz a short extract of something that you juz gotta figure out yourself. though theres some little tibits of Background information in the flash which you gotta pause to read.