MrBigStick's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Super Mario bros Z ep 1 (old series)]

horribly predictable, but it could always be bette

i suggest you get voices for the next episode.

i'm sure if you ask around the NGVA club you can get voices who specialize in both mario and dragonball z style voices, but please, try to have something everyone hasn't already seen a million times before. this was mind numbingly predictable, as soon as that goomba found a shiny blue rock, i knew that an evil sonic character would come and try to take it, and the first one i thought of was metal sonic. then i heard the "super saiyan swoosh" sound effect, and said "nope, hyper super metal sonic."
everything else in this movie has already been done to death, and is luigi gonna be all krillin in the next episode like he is in this one or is he actually gonna fight? because i'm a pretty damn big luigi fan myself.

and you're right, i'm not a big fan of dragonball z and mario crossovers simply because i haven't seen it done well enough.
hopefully you can make a believer out of me, but i wouldn't hold my breath.

[Musical Fun With Naruto]

the whole thing was predictable to a fault.

you've probably ripped off a terrible anime music video (amv) or two in this and even though the original manga-ka would not sue, i believe that some random kid who spams naruto amvs all over the place has no right to be using flash if this is the best they can do. try to listen to your own thoughts at all times, but pay attention to what is said around you, it could be helpful to you later on. even if this was made as a piss take of amvs, at least it's not actual video footage, it has that going for it. it's nice that you took your time to whip up something for a selection of ninja karaoke, which is basically moving around silently while music plays, lip synching and dancing around and not staying in the same place, while still not making any noise. which is a good explanation as to why the mouth flaps don't always sync up. but you gotta know the basics before you do any of the hard stuff, but once you get past the basics, nothing is beyond your reach provided you are willing to learn.

[sasuke confess]

old joke, poorly exectuted, believe it.

the style was kind of cute, but it's not gonna make me squeal "kawaii" or something, because that's not me.

i'm sure this appeals to someone, but it's not my thing.

[Believe IT!]

i believe that this was quite amusing.

believe it!

if everyone believes it, and all the children in the world clap for naruto, he will become the #1 ninja, believe it.

[Kirby's Dreamland I]

thanks for using my audio

overall, i'd say this movie is about average, and while i'm not crazy about sprite movies, you did a good job with the voices, even if the music selection wasn't the best in the world.

this was a very fun movie to watch.

thanks for a good time. i'll vote 5 on this for now.

[sonicvschaosnova2]

not bad, sonic movies get old after a while anyway

you have the raw talent and skill to do solid frame by frame, if you can make your own characters and animate them as smoothly as sonic in this movie, then all you'll need to work on is your writing ability.
this movie didn't have an ending, but i think i know what happens next.
that chaos monster thing knocks sonic down and sonic thinks he's gonna be killed until he remembers something about tails, or tails gives him a chaos emerald, or a ring, or somehting that will make him temporarily stronger, and sonic will beat the monster, add two chaos emeralds to his collection, and look cool while doing it.
these movies are so predictable. i want to see some originality!
also, it would be wise to color your inbetween frames.

merit44 responds:

Thank you! I have been animating for quite a while now and I do feel I'm improving with each project. Yeah, sonic is definetly lossing its edge. Well, on to other things like my own projects ^^

[Peanut Butter Jelly 2006]

i challenge anyone to watch any one of these

with the sound turned off. it's an entirely different experience, and it's about half to a quarter as enjoyable.
it's a kinda catchy song at first but then it gets annoying because it sticks in your head, and then it gets annoying, and then it gets sickening.
once that phase starts, you feel like having a peanut butter jelly banana sandwich.
it causes the song to become catchy again, and then the process repeats itself, until you stop having these sandwiches and then you start to regain your sanity. thanks to you i fell off the PBJ wagon!
well, it was a good sandwich, but i had it on an english muffin.

giving you a decent score of graphics, because you didn't steal the sprite banana. but then again, you stole a bunch of NG characters and tweened them around. think i'm gonna have to be on the fence for this one. i see that it was made exclusively for newgrounds. congratulations. welcome to the frontpage.

but only because of the stylish background and the fact that you used things that tom likes to see in the portal.
i prefer to deviate from these standards, and i've gained some fans for that. they are intelligent people with great ideas that make for great comedy.
not all of these ideas make it to my material though, because i don't like to steal ideas, which is why my work sometimes takes a little longer, but is worth it.
i was mildly amused but not entertained.
-MrBigStick

[Way of the Jedi: Volume 3]

i can't stand retroscoping, or rotoscoping, or

inking, or whatever tracing is called nowadays.

your movie is just tracing over a movie scene and it's not original, although it was somewhat entertaining. But unless you improve on the visuals and use an original story, even if it's just a star wars themed skit, or a brief space drama and you used exaggaration to add a personal touch to what you're tracing.. i mean retroscoping, or you add something that wasn't in the original such as a waaaacky banana or dick and fart jokes.
(these are the worst possible situations i could think of, and have been done before, and to death so don't even think of using them)

or create an original space drama then you're better off going back to the OMG STICKS basics, then working your way up. remember: just because you have your style, and even if you like it, eventually you're gonna have to do something that isn't your style. and how can anyone be expected to know what your style is when you just draw stick figures or sprites?
personally, i'm a big fan of space cartoons. i'm not crazy about jot and jab, the bounty hunting goblins series on newgrounds, but that's because it has too many swears and is aimed at a demographic that's not my own. i'm pretty sure that it has the same target audience as "retarded animal babies", which is disturbingly popular and very unfunny, not to mention extremely overrated. i like frame by frame as much as the next guy, but some things really don't need that much attention to detail paid to them.
i'm pretty sure that if the author went back and opened the .FLA of any one of his episodes, take out all the items labeled "penis" or "fart" or "shit" or "big fuckin' titties" then you're left with very weak material that no one would find amusing or offensive.
these characters speak the language of certain NGBBS users, who shall remain nameless simply because i don't remember any of them, because they are immature people with horrible, pointless posts.
and right under the entire RAB series in thier favorites lists:
star wars gangsta rap
trendy sprite movie that recently made the front page
madness
another gimmicky star wars movie
a music video to a popular song redone with lots of curse words
a music video to a system of a down song
limp bizkit
flashes with limp biscuit songs with no other redeeming qualities
and any foamy or ill will press movie.

the sound was epic but i've heard it all before. by people who put it to way better use than you did. i'll leave that one up to you.

violence, there was plenty of this. but it's kinda hard to tell. you can never kill geometric shapes, and chop a stickman in half, and sometimes he lives, but a lot of blood comes out for some reason.
these "geo-trees" you've used don't have arms or legs.. or any way to tell each other apart, or anything like that.
the only way i was able to tell them apart was the color of thier lightsabers, and that's not enough to make me care about them.

i was entertianed, but not impressed.

[Victory December]

victory is an appropriate theme for this

because it wins.
what does it win? who knows?
but it is victorious in all aspects.