Smoking-Chimney's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[One o'Clock Jump]

The best-made collaboration ...

... that I have seen on Newgrounds ever! Brilliantly put together, and every piece was sublime - I couldn't fault anybody's style, graphics or anything - the music was a change from the over-used style of collaboration music, and although it started to get a bit repetitive, the animation fitted so well. I love the elephants in the bubbles - a masterpiece, and how the transition from each scene to the next was so sweetly combined... fantastic - Well done and congratulations on your pieces everybody - especially to Luis, as it's hard to realise how much effort is needed merely to put all the pieces together into one - and it would be a crime for this not to achieve a Daily and a Weekly Award.

95%

[The Immigrant]

WOW!

The song is great! The animation is great! It is a proper old-school 'Gorillaz' style music video. I loved it. The screenplay was brilliant, and you have inspired me to finish my huge pile of projects, because if they make an impression only half as big on some Flash artists, it will be a success. The backgrounds are cleverly simple, but fantastic with the characters and objects above them. I write this as I watch it a second time, and wow, that blurring quick moving effect at the beginning is so cool, I'll have to experiment with that. In fact the only 'bad' thing I can say is the replay button was a bit off centre, but it didn't take away the overall brilliance of this true music video.

professor-fate responds:

It was deliberately off centre, but I'll remember that for future reference. Thanks alot!

[S.A.M.V. 5]

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Lord of the Fries! Had me laughing before it even started with that title :) This was exceptionally funny, and although I haven't been on Newgrounds long enough to have seen the previous installments, I will take a look at them, because if they are on this level of comedy, I may wet my pants.

Well drawn characters and scenes, the voice-overs were great and diverse, and the style was pretty cool. The humour won it it's score though, and I believe this would make quite a successful sitcom.

Good Flash, I'll be waiting for the next installment.

BaconMask responds:

I value the humor over anything in this series. I fancy myself an above average illustrator, but my main focus is always humor. It's so hard to make people laugh, because a sense of humor is like a thumbprint; no two are alike. I am glad you enjoyed it, though! Thanks for your review!

[Beyond Gaming]

Very good...

There were a lot of great styles and the sounds chosen were great ( I don't know if they were pre-chosen by the organizer ), but the problem was with the buttons. There were a few buttons missing, and when you pressed 'back to menu' on True_Darkness' piece, it went and played somebody else's.

Otherwise, it was a good, quite original collaboration, and I'm giving you a 9 as a measure of the effort it must have taken to make all the things individually, and for X_D's work on putting it into one file. I will go back and watch some more :)

Xionico responds:

nah, the sounds were by everyone in their own flahes, and yeh i had a few problems with true_darkness and eskimoho, entries, cuz i couldnt eidt them since they were compilated movie clips, thats why i couldnt remove that button, and thanks a lot for ur 9 =D

[McDarnold's (Superseded)]

Hilarious!

Wow! That was exceptionally humourous, great style using the backgrounds and the drawn characters. The actually design of the characters was great and suited the comical style! The lip-syncing was very, very good too! I hope I love Part 2 as well!

[Pass the lightsaber]

A great idea...

... I enjoyed watching this a) because I looked at the thread and you know it's like waiting for a game or a movie to come out in the shops and b) because it had variation in styles. To be honest, some of the videos were great, some were blammable, but together it formed an enjoyable piece, and although the graphics on some were fabulous, they didn't need to be overall, because the enjoyable 'lightsaber throw' concept was fun and amusing to watch. I gave you an 8 for Interactivity, purely because of the innovative menu Dark Side/Jedi idea - great way of making a good impression. Overall, I'll give you my vote, and I hope this gets a Daily Award, although it'll be unlikely to on today's quality of submissions... Well Done :)

ConAir responds:

Yeah, thanks for you vote! There were a lot of problems but we should have it all fixed soon, the other author messed up a little bit lol but we should fix it by tomorrow hopefully

[College University pt 10]

Brilliant!

Love the humour in this! Part 10! Wow - keep them coming - they're great - nice animation too!

[21 OClockStreetTheMovie 2]

HOORAY!

That was INCREDIBLE! You followed up the first with something even better - it flowed perfectly, the storyline didn't fade out, the violence was great, the scripting on the quick movement and blurs added so much, the menu was great (which got you an 'Interactivity' 10 rating), it was funny, and I can't believe I just added my first favourite 'Clock' movie! This is worth a daily award and a weekly award, but in a week that's already had some incredible submissions, it may get less than it deserves. I hope this gets a good Daily Award, and a Weekly Award too.

StrangeClock responds:

Contrasting yesterday, there's some incredibly high rated movies on the portal today so competition is heavy... but with one daily feature I shouldn't get greedy.

Thanks!

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