Sausau's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bunnykill 4]

Avril is not for the pupils

Lo, once upon a time, there was a Lord who lived in a foreign country forgotten by Gods, and his name was Krinkels. He made some gory and mindlessly violent yet efficient movies called Madness (C.Q.F.D.). The animation was basic, movements were limited to up-down-right-left and the wounds appeared the same way wherever or in whatever position they were placed on the body. The fights were bloody and acrobatic. Teenagers, instead of slaying their little comrades at school, were watching these movies and loved them. They loved them so much they decided to make their own and discovered this style was not hard to imitate. And it was, well,... the madness madness.

All this grand paragraphe to say what ? This movie is just Madness with bunnies. Now I know it probably doesn't suffice you as a reasonable reason to give a rather low score, neither it is for most retards here, therefore I will tell you all the facts that sink your movie in my opinion.

First of everything, this is a madness look-a-like. While Madness is not even this good, an almost carbon copy can't be better. You're not the first, you're not the only one, and you won't be the lone to imitate this style come from devil-knows-where. I know kids love this but it infuriates me a freaking lot. It's extremely linear. It's boring. No matter how hard you try to move people and arms all around (and sometime it lookes like a hideous mess, slow motion option would be a good feature) you just end up showing the hero slicing or throwing a weapon. The last combat is sometimes interesting though.

Talking about the fights, it's astonishingly cliché. Not the most cliché aspect of the movie yet though. It's like all these stick movies and other dull action flicks here on Newgrounds where the hero can swin through all the ennemies without difficulty, doing impossible acrobatics and killing all of them without a single wound. Until the end with the big boss and he almost dies each time but every time he finds a way to summon an almost-godly power to revive his forces and kicks the boss's ass !!! There must be a thousand movies like this, it's a common scheme :
- Invincible hero beats everyone'ass
- He has problems fighting the boss
- He almost dies
- Even almost dead he found an absurd way to gain the power to beat him.
You blatantly didn't care about writing a good scenario at all.

Oh, and, excuse me, but the use of love into this is a way to gain girls' and emotional teenagers' attention. Admit it. That's not an offense though, I still respect you (which is a point most people have difficulty to understand), but where does she come from. Why does she help him. Why does she love him. We'll never know. And when he's almost slain by the (obviously) old japanese man (I mean, it's common to make the hardest boss an old wise-looking man, isn't it), she comes to help him ! Reaction : http://randazza.files.wordpress.com/2 008/11/facepalm.jpg
And then they fight him together. How cute. And when I watched her die, well...
Reaction : http://koltchak91120.files.wordpress.
com/2009/06/facepalm.jpg. And enraged he summoned a godly power to kill the meanie. I am not into your 2 pennies sentimentalism.

The whole movie is a cliché. Except there are bunnies. Why bunnies anyway ? Why are people so obsessed with bunnies ? Oh, I'm sure Illwillpress will make another trash-worthy "animation" about this. I don't really care. You want to hear good points ? Mmmmh, alright. Nice effects and colours. But the music was definitely better than the film itself. I am not surprised newgrounders have worshipped it so much and carried the score so high. I'm just sad they have. At least that's not a hentai parody. Actually, you can get better. You drew some nice characters at the end when each of the three were using their special powers. If only you could make a whole movie with this kind of drawing, this would be great and redeem the clichés. Don't be hating, I am not dissing your work in a vicious way. I hope you'll make better movies later, and the last part of the movie made me hope so.

Have a good day sir.

Mottis responds:

Hey it's all good man. I respect your opinion, and agree on some of the points you made.
The truth is that I honestly didn't care much for the story or what happens in the movie, besides action. I kinda made it up as I went on. I didn't want to bother my mind with the story, I wanted to concentrate on the fighting and the choreography. This movie is supposed to be purely eye candy and action. If you are looking for a more 'deep' or engrossing experience, this is not the right movie for you.

But as I said, it's cool. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[Kick a Ninja In The Face]

Now we are to the east side

Great animation. It's fluid and imaginative. A movie doesn't need to make sense as long as the author doesn't pretend it to do. These are not the most detailed drawings though D: And I like the music contrary to all those bean-flickers under me.
You should stick to make animations, it's great.

[Street Fighter Narration]

mwng itu bolchevik

You drew the punk-looky character upon Johnny Rotten, didn't ya !

Eddache responds:

The characters are actually based on the designs for Birdie and Eagle from the very first Street Fighter game.

[Harry The Harasser]

Little Sister

I laughed. But not like internet people do. I laughed with my mouth. I physically laughed. And it's rare these months around here. In fact, I think I will watch it again once I am over with this review. This is somehow slapstick humour, but it's so goddamn well-made. The animation of the faces and the lip sync were swell ! It still needs work for the texture and the background, but otherwise, a new favourite !
Thanks for making this. Penis-man.

Slintas responds:

And thank you for writing one of the most awesome reviews I've gotten.

Thanks! :D

[King Snake Land.]

Videotape

It comes at point of abstraction where I seriously wonder wether there is even a sense to your movie. Hopefully, it was just a minor work, yet pleasant to watch.
Now redeem it with your next >:C

Good day =)

[All I Need]

Men and women who sent us here

This is one of my favourite Radiohead songs, if not my favourite.

I saw your movie on the frontpage, which they decided to put after 2 years (they needed something in lieu of the crappy Michael Jasson's tribute) and, astonished by the animation, I took a look (the rhyme !) at your profile, only to discover you were the author of quite beautiful movies I happened to watch in the past. But All I Need caught my attention because I was secretly hoping for a music video based on Radiohead's eponym song. And I haven't been dissapointed !

You somehow (but not totally) grabbed the drift of the song. I especially like the experimental looking, the flashing-photographic baackground, it all matches with their album In Rainbows, while it's not their most experimental album by far, neither was your flash, that's why it suits so well.

Depicting love as popping up in one's head isn't a new concept, but you nailed it a way that was truly touching. The very truth lies there. That's how it happens most the time, an apparently unrelated event can lead to think about a lost love. You aimed to shock with the ending I think, this beaten woman whose head is suddenly occupied with this little "pop". Though we never know wether it's for her husband, it's a great picture.

I love your style, purified, without excess of ornaments. The faces ar beautiful as well, and the black&white, as paradoxal as it may sound, adds more texture to the characters. But my main complain is that you didn't finish the song. This is too bad, because so far, it looked really great.

[The Ballad of CrippleKane]

When you eat crispers, you might enjoy the fluids

I know your style. I mean, I know how it looks like. But every time I watch one of your movie, I must tell myself "damn, it really looks like zekey's one" even though Zekey has two distinguished styles, but you know what I'm talking about. And when I read the credits, the light appeared. And then I read the description. I never read descriptions before. Alright, let's moov hon.

I don't really likes this style anyway, when it ain't exploited right, it looks hideously stiff, more like polygones moving all around. This is how I felt at the beginning. All cubes and lines. But after the sheriff arrived, it went pretty well, and the animation made its proofs. What I like the most is the expression you succeed to put in the faces of the characters, they are always accurate. It's quite a feat considering the "polygonal" aspect of the whole.

Otherwise, it's a pleasant hommage to westerns. You built a coherent story within a few minutes. I personally adored The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, thus I go for a good western whenever there is one. Since you sweat for it...a good score.

AlmightyHans responds:

i appreciate your honest and well written review. :D

[The 5 Hour Collab IV]

Localolcalicalolicalocuc

This is a type of collab I can't stand. There are two kinds of great collab. Either all the parts are incredibly good by themselves and form a bigger goodness together. Either there is a story that the artists follow with their own parts. And let me tell you that yours is none of these.

The collab only follows a theme, which is the base of every collab. Robots ? Okay, I don't really care, it's not original but it's not too cheesy either. And then ? Nothing. The viewer just happens to watch rather random flicks that don't come along together. The quality is very fluctuating as well, it goes from the very bad to the barely decent. I know 5 hours is extremely short. But most of the artists tried a complex animation and story even though they knew they wouldn't be able to finish it within hours ! I think, e.g., at the part where a nicely drawn robot tries to climb a hill. What is the damn point of this lash ? This is nor funny nor interesting. But it's nicely drought.

You see, the most problem in this collab is both the incoherence between the scenes and the poor quality of the whole. Obviously the animators are not the best but they could have nailed to simple yet lovely animations. Most of them aimed too high and their work fall flat. Better luck next time, the concept is likeable.

[Lil' Hoots]

Yesterday I found a day

Man, that's too cute to be true.

[Gravity's Just A Theory 2]

Riceboy Sleeps

This is the best animated movie I've seen since a long time. It's gleeful and refreshing. You came up with wonderful ideas for this imaginary world. Imagination and talent is the best combination that could ever possed a human in any art or activity. You hopefully have glimpse on that.

Sure, these are not the best drawings and not the best art. But it doesn't matter at all in this case. Everything is moving so fluidly and synchronicly to the (very pleasant) music, that the eye doesn't care much about the finess of the droughts. Andy McKee is this one man who can do impressive things with his acoustic guitar right ? The bald one. It also looks simple and the cute faces are childish, and while some might consider it as a flaw, I view it as a plus. A little touch that puts an irresistible smile on my face.

Finally, I am sad this will be likely that it shan't be a huge hit on newgrounds such as Explosm's excrements that run on the frontpage for weeks and all his ilks (decency prevents me from naming those), and will stay as an artists' favourite (by artists I mean the persons who have the eye to recognize a great piece of art such as music, drawing or movie when they see it, despite the aversion which other users could feel against it). People (and by people I mean the random kid on newgrounds, which consists with this type of age by the most part) want new Adam Phillips or kiddish humour à la Egoraptor. As though there weren't enough of this.

Okay, maybe I am over-dramatizing. I hope your work will be widely apprehended by its great quality, because I've rarely smiled so much in the front of my computer screen. Added to my favourite. Have a swell, delicious day good sir.

Oggy-cheese responds:

Thanks so much for taking the time to write that review :D I understand what you're saying, and this animation probably isn't for everyone, but if people enjoy and it puts a smile on their faces then I've done my job. And yes Andy McKee is the amazing bald guitarist :D I do love Adam Phillips' work though :)