Chris-Aldin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ryo the ninja KID]

Top 3 Best Flash so far this week.

Fantastic! Brilliant! Awesome! Near Perfection! So many words i could use ,none of which would be bad. This was actually really awesome. As i said this is one of the best flash so far this week. Without a doubt in the top 3 this week, the top 3 in my opinion also includes Secret Lives Of Squirrels and Bloodsucker(this was the definition of cool). This one my friend would be (just plain awesome). I will touch on every aspect of flash in my review so buckle up!

The graphics were quite good. The simple character designs actually turned out pretty well. I loved that animating style alot and i really wanna see more with that style. The detail in the backrounds was good but there wasnt an incredible amount, but for a good reason. If there was too much detail in the backrounds the style would be thrown off. The effects were prettyc cool, the explosions, slow motion, all were basically awesome. The one critism i have for the graphics is the grass, which could have been more than just green. Amazing graphics overall.

Your style in this movie was simply awesome. From the animating style to the feel to the movie. The mood was really upbeat, and also at some parts a little more tense and at the end very heroic. The upbeat nature made it a really fun thing to watch and to review as i remember some parts. The clips of Matrix parodies were great. They never get old.

The sound was damn near perfect, if not then it was perfect. The many sound effects and different music according to the mood made this seem professional. The sound effects were so awesome, because firstly there were so many, and secondly they sounded awesome, not overly exagerrated or anything. The music was so great, not only because it changed according to the mood you were trying to set, but also because it was just fun to listen to due to the individuality of each song and the high audio quality.

I liked how you did the violence. There was enough of it to satisfy a violence craving but you kept it clean, and without guts,brains, and blood. This allows more ages to watch the movie.

I absolutely love your sense of humour. There was the Matrix parody part, and many other jokes that made this hilarious. For example when it was slow motion, the ninja punched through the water droplet and the fish! LOL That was probably the funniest part in my opinion.

Overall it was fantastic, top 3 of the week as i said earlier. I really enjoyed it, please keep up the amazing work!!! 5/5

[Sanimations Reel]

Ha! Nice work!

That was pretty good. I really enjoyed which is important. Its good to see clips of some of those cartoons again. Ive got a few things to say so here they are!!!!!1 OMG

Nice graphics in general. I cant actually recall any of those clips having bad graphics. Its just some werent as good as others. The colours are cool as always and the animation was generally very smooth, especially on the one with the dog, and the one where you see hands putting money in an envelope. Nice seeing the Tiki again!
Style was awesome again! It was soo cool to see so many different animating styles from one author. Its like a one person collaboration, and a very good one. The animating styles throughout were quite cool and others were just plain good.
Sound was good for one reason, the song. You chose a song that fit the flow of the movie, which is actually pretty difficlut to do. The audio quality wasnt great, probably becuase the movie already had a fairly large file size. So its excusable!
Some parts in that made me chuckle a little bit because i remember seeing them in their realy movies, such as the Robot and Tiki running across the street. I truely loved that episode!

Overall very good. I think most people enjoyed it as much as i did if not even more. And yes this'll fly here man.!!! LOL once again nice work! 4/5<---- i didnt give a 5 becuase of audio quality and the clips werent exactly new! Sorry!

[Stirred Not Shaken: DAD]

Great work.

Really nice job on this. One of the last reviews said "more humour or plot" I guess he didnt realize this was a clip from a dismantled collaboration. A collab with 3 or 4 high quality movies, like this and Wonchop's movie, would make one hell of a collab. Its a real shame that it could not continue as planned.

I liked the graphics, pretty cool style to them. The colours were nice. The animation was generally good, it was sort of like Legendary's Frogs animation at some points. The one problem i had with the graphics/animation is the chase scene. The road combined with the backround looked a little dry and bland. With perhaps more detail on the road and in the trees the whole scene could have looked much better.
Great style aswell, unique but its hard to explain why. As i said, cool animating style, and this had a funny plot. There wasnt too much too the plot,as it was a clip from a collaboration. You made this quite fun to watch.
Sound was great aswell. The songs were pretty good, as i liked most of them, they were high quality and they created the mood i think you were trying to get. The voice acting had decent audio quality but it was great other than that....quite funny and nice expressions.
This could have used a little more fighting and a little more humour. But it was good anyways. The funniest part in this was when we put on the box with "solid snake was here" on it. I think i actually laughed at that part, or at least i found it funnier than any other.

Overall it was very well done. Very amusing to watch and fun to review. Try for another collab in the future! 4/5

Eric-S responds:

Boy, i wish all reviewers were like you. You explain in a wide detail net everything.

I know, it needed a bit more of Gore, and yeah, about the car scene, i dot know if you noticed, but i used ActionS to chenge the qualiy into Medium in the scene because it was too loaded, i guess i could have added a bunch of details like you said...

Thanks for this Awesome review! =)

[Secret Lives of Squirrels]

Haha that was awesome!

Fantastic job on this. Its a bit of a shame the 30 free trial ended, you could have made this longer, woth more action and more humour! It was awesome either way, great work on every aspect. This was amazing, especially as only your second flash project.

I really liked the graphics, as they were done differently than the usual. They kind of had an artistic style to them, but at the same time a loveable cartoony style. The part where the squirrels were jumping around the tree had some awesome graphics and animation. The animation overall was really smooth. Nice swords!

Basically you had a perfect style in this movie. Out of control fun and squirrel fighting, combined with some impressive visuals and awesome music. You had everything you need for an awesome feel to the movie , for the style itself. It was really just a unique movie! Great fun ot watch!

Sound was awesome, despite only a few sound effects. The sound effects you did have were awesome, the sword sound and the tweeting birds were both great, they sounded real! Awesome song too, it really helped create and upbeat/out of control type of mood that i really enjoyed. To top it off the audio quality was impressive!

Some violence, no blood or guts or brains. It was moderate but sometimes having more than that isnt necessary.

I liked the humour in this. It was definitely funny but it wasnt based around the humour which is cool. The whole thing, even when there were no jokes, was funny, with the squirrels running around and fighting. The funniest part was where a perso walks by and the squirrels stop fighting. Then as soon as the person walks out of sight then begin fighting again. It was done in such a way that made it really funny.

Overall this was awesome, the definition of amusing flash. Awesome work, get flash and continue with the greatness!!! 5/5

Pugchew responds:

What a great review, this is what makes spending the last two weeks drawing nothing but squirrels worth it. To be sure, I'll be doing more animations soon.

[My Childhood Pet]

A little short but great!!!

I really liked that. Very enjoyable to watch, becuase of the great graphics, funny voice acting, and plot. A solid flash overall!

Graphics were good, specifically becuase of the cool animating style and the awesome colours. The 2 people were drawn and animated quite well. I always enjoy good people drawing....???LOL
anyways animated of everything was smooth, so great on this aspect!
Style was awesome, i love the "amusement factor" of this...if that makes any sense. Its just everything was done in a way so no one can get bored with it. that is a hard thing to do so great job!
Awesome sound mostly due to the incredible voice acting. It was funny as hell listenin to that! LOL Great audio quality too!!!
This is funny, perhaps the funniest thing ive seen for the past few days. The funniest part was where he gets slammed in the face by the hammer by his friend. LOL! I actually really laughed at that part.

Overall this was great. So fun to watchand to review. Thanks a bunch for the enjoyment! Youre really becoming an awesome artist! keep it uup!!! 4/5

[Relax]

This was great!

Awesome work overall! Really awesome camera work and every aspect in flash you had in this were done very well.

To start off the graphics were awesome. You got an awesome art style that definitely should not go unnoticed. The black and white colour was a different way in doing things, but i enjoyed it. The first image of the tree got me instantly interested in this. The animation was pretty cool aswell. Your style rocked in this movie becuase of your animating style, the feel to the movie and the simple message. Animating style was unique as i said earlier, i loved the feel partly becuase of the music, and the simple message" Relax" was presented very well. The sound was great. Though there werent many sound effects or maybe any at all, the song was awesome and so was the audio quality. The song really set the mood well.Good Choice!

Overall it was very good and i enjoyed it quite a bit. Keep up the awesome work. By the way if it was longer i would have given a 5!!!! 4/5

LaserKarl responds:

Thank you, thank you again. Man, that review must have taken more time to write than to watch the moive itself. Thanks once more!

[REAL Mushroom Kingdom 6]

Haha Awesome! What a Finish!

Another great ending to yet another fantastic series. Its so dissapointing to see a great series end, remembering past episodes and jokes. The end of one series could also be a good thing, as you will make new flash in the future. Well i hope you do at least.

I loved the graphics, mostly becuase of your colourful and smooth animating style. Great use of 3D aswell, such as is the ? box and when Mario was charging up his fire ball. The characters looked good, and the menus did aswell. The opening menu was cool, i liked the animation in it. The animation overall was really good, smooth and easy to tell what was going on at all times. The fight scenes were really well animated!

I really enjoyed this movie, partly becuase of its style. Love the animating style. The menu even showed effort, thats definitely a plus. The two possible ways for the story to end was a fantastic addition. Two totally different looks on an ending. The tragedy one was cool becuase you get to see Mario get pwned. The comedy one, in my opinionm, was better due to the many hilarious jokes and comments. The extras were awesome, menu looked great and there were many other options, such as the Wario Sells out thing.

Sound was awesome, i loved the voice acting, it was funny as hell, and the sound effects were comical. The songs were great ,as they fit the mood perfectly. Though the audio quality could be improved a bit, sound rocked overall.

There was violence and interactivity also. The violence was not gruesome so many ages are able to watch it. The interactivity came from the extras menu obviously.

And the last element: humour was awesome. This movie was crammed full of hilarious jokes and comments. I was either laughing or smiling the entire way through.

Overall this was awesome. Im sad that its over but i hope that means youll move on to something else. Great work and keep it up!5/5

[Death of Billy's Lass]

just as good as the last!

Good job again. You got a really interesting style to your movies. That makes them imposible not to enjoy.

The graphical style is very unqiue and maybe its not the most detailed or best animated flash out there but it definitely deserves a look. Style is just great, as i said in the last review, freaky and a little twisted. Very unqiue story indeed.

Sound was good in this one and the last one. Its great how the sound changes according to the mood you are trying to set. The music is really interesting, i havnet heard anything like that before.

Just overall really good. Im very dissapointed that you lost interest in this, and i think many other reviewers are too. This is really an interesting series and its a shame its already over so soon. Anyways good luck with your other submissions. 4/5

[Death of Billy's Mother]

Nice work!!

Nice job! This was different than most of the flash ive seen, so it made it fun to watch. The graphics were good, but sometimes just a little simple. I mean there could be more detail in soem areas. character desgin was unqiue due to your animating style, they looked kind of freaky, in a good way. The animation was good, but i felt it could have been a little smoother. Nice job overall on the graphics. Style rocked, the mood was kind of twisted and scary, i like it!! Animating style was good and the twisted story helped alot. Sound was good becuase of the music. Great job on chosing songs that fit the mood perfectly. The song's audio quality was good but the snoring at the begining could have been better.

Overall it was a ...different experience. Cool though, definitely good work. Keep it up! 4/5

[Stirred Not Shaken: TWINE]

Haha That was awesome!

Fantastic job on this! An awesome final product! Definitely great fun to watch! I mainly have nothing bad to say about this but there are a few minor problems i'd like to say.

To start, the graphics were awesome. I absolutely loved the animating style you have. The detail in your drawings was pretty cool, for example in bonds hair there were multiple colour shades. Good work on the detail! The animation was generally very good except one thing,(one of those problems i was talkin about earlier), the walking and running could have been animated better. It seems their legs didnt move all that much when walking. Other than that animation was awesome.Style was great too. With help from your animating style, this was also well presented, amazing fun to watch and a parody on james bond! LOL excellent combination for style here. Sound was pretty good aswell. I liked the sound effects quite a bit and the voice acting was very good, becuase of great expression and totally different voices for each character. Audio quality was not quite the best around but it was good enough to do the job. Violence, i love saying this : There was enough violence to satisfy any craving you may have! Not too guresome either!!! Now to the last aspect of flash:humourm which was obviously great in this movie. There were really some great jokes throughout, especially the one at the end. LOL

Overall it was awesome. So much fun to watch, and its always a pleasure to see great work from soem returning artists!!!! 5/5

Wonchop responds:

Thanks. I was pretty new to getting walking done correctly. Plus I forgot to give Renard knees ^^;