Chris-Aldin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Monster In The Mansion]

Great job, well told.

Very nice work on this movie. This is one of my prefered of your submissions. Nothing was done poorly, just a really solid final product.

The graphics were great. I liked the character design, but that movement that the professor and the monster made throughout got a little annoying.(sorry i dont know what its called.) But the backrounds were aweseom. The detail, especially in the shading, was awesome. The shading gave everything a third dimension, depth. The style was great, i like the animating style in general, but more so in the backrounds. The story and idea were executed pretty well. I really got the feeling the prof didnt care about the monster. The sound was pretty good too, i liked the sound effects. The voice acting was also great, though at one part it was a little hard to hear. Other than that the audio quality was good. The humour in this was pretty good too, i liked it when the man watering his lawn sprayed the kid on the bike.

Overall a very good job, and i just liked it because of how everything worked together. A very solid job in every aspect, keep it up! 4/5

[No Need for Bushido 2]

hahah, i loved that!

This was surprisingly well done. I didnt expect it to be all that good, i mean puppets wtf right? wrong!! i loved the idea of using puppets in the end. It came out quite creative.

The graphics were great. I loved the smooth drawings of everything, mostly in the characters. The backrounds were also nicely done, they came out "far away", i think you were trying to do that with them. The animation was also really smooth. The style was great overall as well. This was a little slow to get going, but it really picked up. The puppets idea is great, it came out funny, original and creative. Your animating style is great as well, simple and smooth. The sound was great as well, but there were a few noticable quality problems. The voices were a little tough to hear, but from what i heard they were rich in expression and characetr. There was plenty of humour in this too!

Overall this was great, and at least fairly well done in each aspect. I hope you can make even more with this style. Keep it up! 4/5

No-Need-for-Bushido responds:

Thank you! I hope the voices will be clearer in the next installment. I'm playing around with a new recording program and trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing. I've really got to thank my two top voice actors, Mindy and Will! Just hope to get the recording right.

:) thanks again!

[The Doom Project]

Awesome work guys!

Yet another great collaboration, but i think it could have been submitted a little later, after all this stream of collabs. But i didnt deduct point for that. Well good to see work by all of you guys, Gerkinman youre very close to one of my favourite authors. Keep it up and youll be in there quickly.

The graphics were awesome overall. I dont there were any clips whose graphics i did not enjoy. They were all really well done. The drawings in each one were quite good. The backrounds i noticed were superb, in most or all clips. The animation was always good too. The overall style of this collab, this was kind of a tribute to a classic series, DOOM. Collabs always get high style points from me anyways because it is awesome to see so many talented artists combine works and make one. The one porblem i had here is the fact that all clips were somewhat similar in terms of content. The sound was great overall. I loved the song pplaying, it was pretty catchy. And thats all there was really. There was plenty of violence, enough to satisfy anyone looking for it.

Overall this was awesome, i dotn see how anyone can hate this. I hope you all can keep it up with the great submissions. Gerkinman you are soo close my friend! 5/5

[awesome trailer]

Ha great job!

Great job on this ttrailer! This is what a trailer should be like, showing off how good the movie would be, and showing off some characters from the upcoming series. I think it was well paced, perfect in the way of presenting trailers.

The graphics were very well done. I really liked how Mr.Awesome looked, with that toothy grin he is constantly doing, i found that kind of funny. Al the drawings were well done actually. The colours were smooth and just good. Great animation too, fit in with the rest of the movie quite well. Your style was very good, i loved your animating style first of all. You presented a trailer exactly how it should be, i explained what i meant by that in the first paragraph. It was well paced indeed. The sound was great too, i actually liked Mr Awesome's voice, you said in your comments that it was only so-so. Darth's voice was also prett good. I liked the sound overall, again it fit in with the movie quite well. this was also humourous at points, im positive the real episodes will be even funnier!

Overall a very good trailer, and a great start to what already seems like a great series. I cant wait to see the first episode, hurry up with it but make it great if you can(i have no doubts). Again greatwork! 4/5

JAMce responds:

thanx for the review. WOW! lol
it's funny cuz we had about another minutes worth of jokes that I edited out for pacing.... but it had some great.. really great stuff.. at one point Mr. awesome adds that his dad sells "those porceline clown things on E-bay...." and Dark filter is like "are you for real!!! no way.. I've been lookig for one of those... what's his email address, no wait I'll give you mine, it's [e-mail]"
lol.. maybe I'll do and update with "deleted scenes" lol

[MOTLB: Liberation]

The final product turned out good.

This was better than anything i could ever do without a doubt. But there is quite a bit of room for improvement. It was fun to wacth but from a more technical standpoint there were some notciable flaws.

The graphics were good enough not to be hard to look at. They werent amazing either. The drawings alone had a cool style to them, but when animation was used they seemed almost boring and too plain. Not enough limbs moved to make them look interesting. The backrounds and environments were also a bit simple to be considered great. Your style was good to an extent. Your animating style is pretty cool, it did get old quickly however. And another star wars movie isnt the best thing to submit right now, it has been done too much recently. The sound was good and again got old quickly. The music was good i guess, it was easy to hear. The sound effects were good at first but then they grew reallly repetitive. The violence was good, good amount of it.

Overall this was fun to watch but it had some flaws. You keep practising and youll get better. Keep it up!

[Mystical Ninjas Ep.1]

Woo fun fun fun!!

This was great man, i had lots of fun watching it. I dont have any big critiques for it, everything was well done. The wack-a-mole game was quite fun as well.

The graphics were great, you really seem to know what youre doing with sprites. The variety was awesome. I liked how everything fit together. There was nothing that seemed out of place or awkward. The style of this movie was great as well, its just i didnt enjoy reading all the text, maybe voice actors would prove useful in the future. But i liked how you didnt have to click a button to go to the next text box. The sound was pretty good as well. I liked all the retro type of music you had in this. The sound effects were pretty good. And well there was nothing else to sound! This movie actually had a good amount of interactivity, that obviously came from the wack a mole game.

Overall a very solid final product and a great start to a new series. I cant wait for the next episode, i hope it will be just as good if not better than this one! 4/5

[The Mighty Ketchup Man 3]

Good work.

You did a good job on this for sure. Sometimes it was easy to see where effort was put in. It was a good movie, everything was done at least fairly well.

The graphics were good, the drawings of all the heinz products were pretty funny, they were actually good too. The backrounds could use some work however, it was just green grass and blue sky...nothing else. The style was good, the parts where your animating showed itself was good. The whole idea is original, creative and it was presented in a way where it wasnt boring. The sound had its moments i guess. The music was good but i didnt like the voices , kind of like clocks but not quite there. The humour was good too.

Overall a good final product with some flaws, that could be fixed with time. Keep it up make more soon!

[McDoobies]

Ha great job!

Its too bad the audio wasnt yours man, i would have given you a higher score. But making a video to something like that is a cool idea anyways. It was well done.

The graphics were pretty good, i see you put effort into everything. Great use of colours to make the movie seem trippy. The detail in some things was quite good, and well i dont have anything bad to say about graphics. The style was also pretty good, i havent seen anything or much like this on NG before, so it was a fairly unique experience. It was pretty original in the sense that you made a trippy video to a funny song. Your animating style seemed well thoughtout based on this movie. The sound was good despite it not being your own. It was a funny song, with some funny voices. Its good that the quality was generally good, it didnt take anything away from the song. The humour in this was noticable without a doubt but some of it just wasnt my style of humour. I can see why peoplewould find the whole thing.

Overall a great movie with almost no flaws. Some of it just wasnt my style of movie, but it was great either way. Keep it up! 4/5

[ONE GUN]

Great work!

Its good to see youre devoted to finishing past unfinished projects,
it seems you will finish anything you start. Anyways i can see some parts arent quite as good as they would be if you did them now. And this as a first flash project is pretty damn good.

The graphics were great for the most part. Sometimes, however, the tweening didnt look great for example in the smoke coming from the pistol. The drawings were nice and i liked the backrounds as well. I could see effort as there was a considerable amount of detail in most things. The style of this movie is very good. I liekd the story and idea. Pretty original for the idea and it was all just well presented. The sound was also very well done. I particularily enjoyed the sound effects of the gun and the cars, both seemed very realistic and well in sync. Anyways the sound just worked with the movie, i dont know how to explain it any better than that.

Overall yet another great movie coming from Life.1. Its crazy how consistant you are with more than just a single series. Anyways i cant wait for more of your stuff. Keep it up!! 4/5

[the last match]

A very nice job!

This was great! Your part was my favourite in the "Beyond Gaming" collaboration. In my opinion it was the best animated one.
Anyways its great to see an extended version of this. It was great in every way!

The graphics aer great, you always produce nice graphics. I love your animating style, its kind of cartoony, but in a cool detailed kind of way. The colours are always well done with your stuff as well. I think this showed some of the best of your animating talents, it seems to be gettting better in each of your movies. Your animating style is awesome, but i didnt give you high style points just for that. The idea is pretty cool, like that arcade style of presentation. It was actually done well. Your characters are always cool and you did a great job of making that final battle intense. Great sound in this too, with the music and the sounds all was well done.

Overall a great job, with no flaws, but obviously with areas for improvement. I hope you make another movie soon, keep it up! 4/5

Xionico responds:

thanks a lot, im glad u liked it, and i already know, there are a lot of areas where it could be improvbed but i havent made the improvements yet =P