DannyP's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Final Fantasy WHY?]

It's OK

This movie was better than I thought it would be... pretty funny. Why was Sora there though? He's not a Final Fantasy character...
I'm guessing there are so many Final Fantasy games because, well, they're successful. The title of the series is pretty stupid, but I guess it's too late to change it now.
In your Properties panel in Flash, you should change the audio from "Event" to "Stream"; it will keep everything synchronized.

Shinpachi222 responds:

I learned about streaming about two days after releasing this flash. Life suck, right?

[A Tribute to Inuyasha79]

Lame

This is a pathetic "tribute", I doubt anyone even died from the looks of this.

AniGen2 responds:

D':< HOW COULD YOU!?!?!? SHE WAS MY BEST FRIEND. UR SO MEAN...

[Intelligent conversation]

Foolish

I was a fool to give a Clock movie a chance... I guess I'll continue to stick to my biases. Way to go.

SkyClock responds:

DIE OF ASS CANCER

[NG: Food Chain]

Eh... boring

I figured I'd see what all the hype was about, but was disappointed after watching this. You guys can draw pretty good, but as far as I can tell, tweening a bunch of drawings doesn't make for a good movie. A good movie (in my opinion anyways) has things like a storyline, characters, etc. One could argue that the characters were the drawings shown, and the storyline was the whole 'food chain' thing, but the character's aren't consistent and in such a case the storyline is weak.

In conclusion, I find this to be overrated... perhaps due to Newgrounds nationalists. It's not like every movie has to follow the same template and clone the majority or anything, but it shouldn't stray so far as this.

squeakytoad responds:

I don't think you get the point...

[Sprite Diapers]

Brilliant

Quite brilliant, but I must disagree with your and a lot of other peoples' thoughts about sprite movies. Many people do make generic shit movies, which you made fun of (and you did a very good job on that). But consider this: when I make sprite movies, I get sprite sheets, so I have to put the sprites in individual images, make the background transparent, and upload them to Flash before I can use them at all. That doesn't take an incredible amount of effort, but it sure is tedious and it takes a lot of time.
So let's go beyond that part... It still takes effort to come up with jokes, storyline, and whatever else. Sprite movies are good for people who can't (or don't feel like) actually drawing out the images. It gives the less artistic people a chance at making a decent movie. Many people do all that poorly of course (as you demonstrated); Mario vs. Sonic, Naruto vs. Sasuke, and whatever else DBZ style Flash movies. That gets annoying fast as it is very unoriginal. But you have to remember the good, original sprite movies like 8-bit D&D.

And finally, consider that some people actually create their own sprites. Lots of people modify the sprites so they can use the character in positions they had never been seen before in. Furthermore, I'm creating an RPG in Flash and I actually have created all of my sprites from scratch! They aren't modifications of other sprites, I didn't use other sprites for reference, they're all 100% original.

In conclusion, I don't think it's fair to brand ALL sprite movies/games unoriginal. There are some exceptions.

Once again, great movie.

Blordow responds:

yah i didnt mean every single sprite movie sucks. just the majority of them these days are the same, the ones i parodied in the movie are the ones i am mainly talking about.

[EVOLUTION.]

Almost...

It started out looking decent, but still pretty stupid in how the evolving took place. Evolution is not just a matter of "Poof! We have legs!", it's something that happens gradually. Then it looks like you got lazy, or perhaps the beginning of the movie was to deceive people, you tossed in some cheap animated racism. The racism didn't make the movie bad per se, but the fact that it was irrelevant and seemingly a cheap cry for attention did.

Ushnor responds:

I'll have you know I have a phd in christian science and yes the legs DID just poof on you kike

[Bomber109's Games]

Not exactly the greatest, but they were unfinished

On the second level of Circle Boy I decided to go to the right instead of going all the way around... then the game glitched.
After playing through a bit, it was very glitchy, but an entertaining game.

Bomber109 responds:

Yeah, it is old, but it is addictive. I gave Skutieos the swf and he played Circle Boy for a while, and loved it.

[Spinister Ep. 024]

Why?

To be honest, I very rarely watch these sorts of things.
Collaborations involving a ridiculous amount of users, usually of very low quality, and people wonder why it wasn't blammed. Kitty Krew, those Uzi whatevers, you guys, and many others.
This was no exception; I didn't watch it. I've been seeing these things showing up in the portal like crazy, and I have no doubts that this is another one of those crappy entries.
In the past I've asked the retarded Kitty Krew why they do this, and they gave me a stupid answer, which was the best I could expect I suppose. But you guys are a different group, so I'll give asking you guys a shot.

Why do you submit these kinds of things? You seem to submit these things as collaborations seemingly so you can submit several of these movies per day, and also so you each have a long list of submissions on Newgrounds. So you have a long list of submissions, which are mostly pointless and have low scores. Now you can submit just about anything and people will think you're a "successful user" rather than a newb and so you're movies, no matter how crappy, will have less chance of being blammed or they'll think it's pointless to even try blamming and take the protection point, thus giving you higher scores on your crap.
But is there really a point to that? Do you guys compete for "worst Flash artist"? Most submissions? Just spamming the portal? What is the motive?

Spinister responds:

Well personally I'm aiming for a spot in the top uploaders list. Also, whenever I actually TRY to make something decent it gets a low score anyways, so I'm not really motivated to even try. Seeing garbage like Phoenix Wrong get scores of 4.2+ while Kol-Belov's "Russian Mafia on Mars" struggled to stay above 3.8 doesn't help much either.

- Spinister

[Genjuro (samurai shodown)]

Poor header

That's a lousy header... the file size is way too big, so it takes a while to load. I suspect that uncompressed music file is to blame for that.
The animation looked kind of OK, but it was really slow, repetitive, and boring.

braxius responds:

thats because i included the sound inside of the header, i my website its streamed

[Naruto-Namikaze Satellite]

Not too good...

Namikaze Satellite is my favourite Naruto opening, and you didn't do it justice...
Graphics - Sprites... I'm fine with sprites... but you really should have edited some of them (like when they're staring at the starry sky, you could have made them sitting and looking up...). You seemed pretty lazy; didn't modify sprites to make them how they are in the real deal.
Style - I'm not sure how style is supposed to be rated, but I'll just compare this to the actual opening. At some parts you used the sprites to look like the actual opening, but then there were other bits (like Naruto and Iruka) which had no part in the opening whatsoever. If you're gonna do the opening, do it right, y'know?
Sound - I noticed you edited the full version of the song... or at least that's how it sounded. You should have found a TV size version of the song, and if you can't find it, record it from the actual thing.
Violence - Don't think there was really any?
Humor - You excluded that hilariously ugly picture of Shikamaru they show in the actual opening... And all those other pictures they shaded in the opening which made everyone look creepy/ugly.
Overall - Sort of resembled the actual opening at times, but not really... try modifying or creating your own sprites; the ones you had to work with didn't do this movie justice.

Goten-2 responds:

Graphics-Well the thing is, i SUCK at sprite editting, so...
Style-If I would've done everything like the actual intro, it would just be a plain rip-off, right?I just wanted to kinda make my own version, but put some parts of the actual intro in, so it is yet recognisable.
Sound-Yeah, it's the full version cut up, I couldn't find the TV version and don't have a program to record it, sorry.
Violence-No, and it doesn't have to^^
Humor-Kinda the same from 'Style'
Overall-Look at all of the above. XD