SquidBonk's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The 5 Shades of Green]

Could have been something... decent.

The idea of using only shades of green is great. For these kind of collabs, the 'director' needs to be STRICT! I mean, you just let in any 9 year old that knows how to click a mouse. ReNaeNae and cook are the only ones that at the very least used the shades in an appealing form. All the stories/situations sucked. And anyone that makes a fight scene in these collabs, (as much as I like fight scenes) need to be shot dead. They have no imagination whatsoever. If you need inspiration for animations, try reading up on different cultures, mix and match daily happenings. do something ridiculous and make it original at least to your knowledge.

oooo, I soiled myself.

[Ryu]

Very good job

I love cultural movies like this.

I would have changed the reflection of the man on the water. I kept noticing that it has only been flipped where it would have a very different image otherwise. Although, that is only a minor issue.

Awesome work, great music.

[Shrek Sketches]

Humour severely lacking, quality artwork though

This kind of humour rings of the skilled 50 year old artist trying to entertain some kids by inserting recognizable characters. Try not to use gags that have been done over and over again such as:

-Walking in on sex
-Delivering someone elses baby
-Toilet humour (unless you have a clever way of presenting it)
-"what's up doc"

[FBF 6 Season 2]

Mongolian was the only worthwhile one

The rest are shoddy, at best. I loved the smooth animation and used the fire explosion to great effect. That right there grabbed my attention and forced me to watch the rest. If Mongolian wasn't the first one, I would have shut it off.

Maxwell-FA responds:

So should I take offense to that? Listen, we make flash because we love it, and nobody like you or anybody else is gonna stop us with your downings. Stay sic.

[RvsG2 - The Reckoning]

pretty nice animation

Granted Naruto is an awesome show, and you chose well for the music. The attempt at an entirely one dimensional plot that so obviously runs along the same vein as Naruto was a big groaner. Your animation is coming along well, just, the whole build up to the fight was unnecessary, it actually detracted for me. The time could have been better spent in backgrounds or experiments with your animation. Still, very nice work, keep at it. I hope to see some frame x frame work someday.

Spookey-Mulder responds:

I'd love to do frame by frame work... But I'm not very gifted, I'm working on it though.

I'm making another movie that's entirely action based without the plot stuff. I think it'll be to your liking when it's done... though I'm still a stupid tween idiot, I even went to a 50 fps to make my animations more worthy amongst so many fbf geniuses. thanks for the review

[6 hour deadline animation]

Preloader bug

Looking good dude. You have a preloading bug where if the movie is already in your cache then it won't play if you try to start the movie again.

[Zelda: Heroic Rage 6]

Ah well, it's a start.

Forget the inner details and lines on your character, if you really want to accentuate details like muscles and such, just use the cell shading style. You don't have a good enough handle on creating a character that feels like he's in a solid world.

[Tetsu-jin::Lost Memories]

List your reference you hack!

Stuff like this is just too much. You've ripped tons of various web cartoons and TV series. It's obvious which scenes you've taken because your art and composition skills are so low. Practice up and at the very LEAST list what and where you've ripped entire scenes from so it doesn't appear that you're trying to make something original off of others' work with a slightly different looking character.

[Fallen Angel: Teaser]

Visually stunning. Intellectually stunted.

The effort and time put into this shows. Great artwork, nice colours. No big qualms with the animation, it was nice. Overall very well done piece. I have to say though, that watching this trailer, I don't feel really excited about the main movie, even though I want to be. The general overview seems like this to me. There's a girl, who looks like she just came out of her ghetto home. Decided to drive to a war torn city, and shoot shit up. The only preparations she has taken was to rig her own vehicle with explosives. I suppose she could be a suicide bomber but at any rate, the trailer doesn't really make me feel excited.

Don't get me wrong though, I know the time put into this was enormous. I just feel that there was no conflict. Conflict drives story, and even the character just didn't care what she was doing at any given moment. It was only about the killing.

[Naruto Tribute]

Naruto is awesome. This is crap.

How does this have 3.3 so far?!?!
This is nothing but a collage of:

-a poor scribbled runcycle.
-Multicoloured spinning balls.
-Four TRACED drawings done by professional artists. (This wouldn't be a problem to me if you actually decided to give them credit)
-No plot. No nothing.

The only saving grace is that the animated blobs at least somewhat resemble naruto.