Chris-Aldin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dad's at Work]

As good if not better than the last!

That was really well done, but obviously the best part about it was the radical pace at which Dad flew around the office and completed his work. The idea is just comical, and clearly you made your idea come to life. The animation was excellent too, as it really helped to complement some of the humour.

I hope you can continue to make Dad movies that are even more intense than the last two have been! 5/5

[Tomorrow's Nobodies Ep.5]

Very well put together.

You guys used all the talent each one of you posess in the humour department this time around. And all the effort that went into this definitely shows. I was surprised to see you guys even put in a few Real Life Footage in, you made sure it really worked and actually added to the movie in many ways.

The visuals were great, of course they had the same style as in your other submissions, but maybe a little bit more refined than the earlier ones. The style was awesome too, but i just thought you could have stuck to the initial storyline a little bit better. There were sort of two going on at once. I guess you made it work in the end, however. The sound effects were pretty funny most of the time and the voice acting was great just as always. The humour was amazing, you guys know what youre doing here!

Anyways great job, keep it up!
-Standing Ovation! 5/5

[Coldplay - Yellow]

Touching and beautiful.

I seriously almost have 7 clues where to start. This is honestly one of my favourite animations i have seen for quite some time. I really adore a flash that can be very well animated, entertaining, maybe even fun, but all of this along with a meaningful point to it. There is always something about these kinds of flash that i just love everytime. I guess it shows how an author can really put effort, and care into their submission. It makes the effort stand out more than it would in any comedy flash. Anyways here is my review.

The visuals were not quite perfect but they were still far above that of the average movie and they also suit this flash quite well. They were always very clean and refined, which is a really good thing to have in a flash with a message, it helps explain it better in a way. Your animating style was pretty good and unique as well. Your characters looked really interesting, and they had some memorable features such as their long legs. The environment did really look like a desert of some sort. And everything was very well coloured. The style was my favourite aspect of this flash, well mostly this and the song actually helped to make a more touching atmosphere at the end. Like i said, there is always something about a flash with a message or a real meaning that i cant get enough of. This flash was one of those few that actually take the time to plan out a meaningful lesson with great visuals and a perfectly chosen song. Naturally i have to commend you on the effort. The message was shown very nicely, i couldnt really ask for any more on this aspect. The sound was great, usually with just a song i dont give a full 10, unless the author has really used it to its full potential, like you did in this flash. Its because of flash like this that i began to like Coldplay!

Overall this was a really awesome flash, though unfortuneately it was submitted during a week with many amazing pieces of work. Im thinking it could have done better than weekly 5th. I have added this to my favourites and i hope you can make more awesome movies!
-Standing Ovation! 5/5

[Waffle X: Episode One]

Great! It is approaching perfection!

Very nicely done, this certainly lived up to the Waffle X Animation Test you submitted a while ago. People expected the first episode to be great, and im thinking most viewers were even more impressed than that. And i also think that many people were just flat out amazed with how this primary episode turned out. I can only hope the upcoming episodes will be as good. Here is my review.

The visuals were approaching Comic Style perfection. I really noticed the animating style you used, from the looks of it you really are comfortable with it and know how to use it quite well. The detail in everything was more than sufficient. The actual drawings themselves were quite good and all seemed pretty natural amongst one another. The colours were great as well. And finally the actual animation was good, the movements were detailed and the facial expressions really did seem to demonstrate how our hero was feeling. The style certainly deserves a 10 in my opinion and here is why. It was extremely original, from the characters, to the idea and even until the general presentation. The characters were interesting, i mean i have never seen a living waffle before and Bob was funny because of his speech. He used very different words. The interactive segment was a very cool way to do a movie, whether you had to or not i loved it. The sense of humour was pretty unique too, but i dont know exactly how i would describe it. The sound was awesome, but i felt it was lacking in general. There werent really enough sound effects to earn a perfect 10 i think, but the voice acting was great and the music chosen fit in nicely.

Overall this was an excellent movie, worthy of a good grade i think :p. The visuals were impressive, the style was original and the voice acting was wonderful. Everything was well done. Now that this first episode was successful i say definitely keep going on with the series!
-Standing Ovation! 5/5

[Crows' Life Episode 2]

Fantastic first movie with your new crew!

Very well done guys. I am wondering how many people are actually involved with Toonimated now. This whole movie was even more impressive than the previous Crows' Life installment. This could easily be the best submission the old Quimera has ever produced, realistically. Everything clearly had an amazing amount of effort put into it, this was most easily seen with the incredible visuals. This could indeed be the start to another very successful group. Here is my review.

The visuals were definitely my favourite aspect of this flash. They were just as good if not better than in the previous one. I guess to startm the backgrounds were very nicely done, with completely animated corn stalks for example, which were drawn as if they were in the foreground along with the characters. The colours were excellent as well, i have no complaints or anything here. The detail in everything else looked fantastic, i was amazed with some things. When you zoomed into a part of the crows' body the detail was intricate, these instances reminded me of Ren & Stimpy a little bit. The animation along with the multiple facial expressions were always great too. The style was awesome, but there were a few small things that maybe could have been done a little differently. The first of which is the animating style, which was great and seemed well refined, but just not too original. Also the basic idea of crows trying to take down a scarecrow type thing because they think he is real is a really interesting and creative idea. However in this episode i felt as though the writing could have been a little better and more organized in a way. But other than that the style was basically perfect. The characters were all varied and each one had nicely developped personalities. The sound was excellent too, i was close to giving it a perfect 10, but then i thought of how some pieces of music didnt quite fit in with the rest of the movie as they could. The voices were great, again all very unique and distinct from one another. Most pieces of music were really well used and the sound effects were quite good as well. The game at the beginning was a good little addition.

So Overall this was another fantastic movie by Quimera, even though you have joined up with some one else. I have a feeling you guys will be making many awesome flash in the near future. Try not to dissapoint!
-Standing Ovation 5/5

[TANKMEN]

Excellent work!

This was truly a great movie in every way. To be honest i was expecting something more serious, kind of like a war movie of some sort. But what i got was pretty much the opposite, and this was probably for the best anyways becauseit turned out really well. This movie was filled with a unique style and a sense of humour we dont see too much of on Newgrounds. And i always think it is nice to see a type of Newgrounds promotion on the site itself. Anyways here is my review.

The graphics were fairly simplistic for the most part but still very good nonetheless. What i mean by this is that they dont have all that much detail but still look very nice. The Newgrounds tank along with the old and new tankmen looked pretty accurate. The men maybe looked a bit more cartoony, but still very good. The backgrounds were pretty simple as well, but i really enjoyed how they kind of resembled the 5 shades of Orange, that is if there was one. The style was awesome too, and a huge part of this aspect has to do with the animating style. With more than half of the submissions i review this does not happen; the animating style is usually just extra. The sense of humour also helped out here because it was unique, perhaps a little crude and very funny. Most of the jokes were a little crude, but it doesnt matter because they were very funny. The length was pretty good too, i couldnt really ask for more in a flash like this. And like i said before, these types of Newgrounds promotions are always at least a little bit amusing. The sound was awesome too, not quite perfect because i felt there could have been a bit more to it. The voice acting was pretty funny, good expressions and there was just something about them that made them even better than usual. The music playing in the background was pretty funny as well, it made the atmosphere comical.

So overall i pretty much couldnt ask for more in a flash this solid. It had great visuals, a great and unique style, and a good set of voices to back it all up. I say make this into a series if you didnt already plan on it. Keep up the great work.
-Standing Ovation! 5/5

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[XIN Session 18 (Finale)]

Perfect finish to an amazing series.

This could seriously not have been any better as a finale to any series. It summarized everything with an amazing level of clarity and explanation. It left nothing unknown to the viewers, and in doing so it actually managed to be almost too interesting. Ever since the beginning of this series you guys have been progressively improving from session to session up until this one. Up until the first time i saw Session 18 i had only seen everyone since #8, and after watching this for the first time i had felt obliged to watch every one since #1. It truly gets the "XIN" feel across when you watch it from beginning to end consecutively. I was surprised at how well everything in the story was continued so well from session to session. The visuals have also improved, along with the voices and everything else to do with this series. XIN is lke one movie; it's written as well as a good one, has many distinct characters, and an epic ending. Here is my review.

To start off the visuals were very well done and have only gotten better since the start. They arent quite perfect, but are still far above that of the average flash author. Each character definitely had their own unique look to them, no one character was close enough to another that anyone could get confused. There were also quite a lot of them. The backgrounds were more often then not, really well done and the detail they had was perfectly sufficient. On other occasions however, i felt as though they could have had a bit more to them. The colours always seemed perfectly natural and changing up the hair colours like you guys did throughout the series always made for interesting characters. I like what you did with the shadows, where sometimes you didnt see the characters eyes. I dont know exactly how you managed to do it but it kind of gave them a facial expression without them actually having one. Excellent animation too by the way.
The style of this movie, and the rest of this incredible series was pretty much worthy of a 10 all the way through. The style was really great for many reasons, too many to count on two hands. The animating style is just a small reason but still is one nonetheless. This animation style was so good because no one else on the site uses it from what ive seen. The main focus of this aspect has to be the amazing writing throughout this series. All the characters had really developped personalities and many of them even had an explained background story to them. The viewers found out about many characters' pasts through visions and flashbacks, and doing all of this really made for a "movie" experience. I bet some viewers even tried relating to one or more of the characters because their personalities were just so interesting. The story itself was simply excellent; very professional, extremely well-developped, and its ending was fantastic. The sound was also extremely well done throughout. In the earlier episodes there was no voice acting at first, but i like how you went back and edited them. The sound effects were awesome, they all fit their actions nicely and none sounded even the slightest bit out of place. The music throughout the series were all original pieces right? Well they were awesome, and always helped set the atmosphere just right. The voice acting REALLY made the characters come to life, almost as if they were real actors and not animated drawings. The expressions in the voices were almost always perfect as well. There was even some humour in places in the series.

So Overall this was an amazing series, quite possibly the best one on NG. You guys created something that can be turned into a movie; the characters and writing are there, as well as a totally unique concept. I can certainly see it becoming a movie one day. Anyways you guys did fantastic on this, and i cant wait to see many many more submissions from Life.1 !!!
-Standing Ovation 5/5

[Zombie Panic!]

I think this movie did what it was supposed to.

This teaser seemed pretty good. I mean, im pretty sure it did what you wanted it to. It previewd the real Zombie Panic nicely, and it certainly got me interested in checking it out. On top of that, this showed some of your amazing drawing abilities. Everything was basically well done, and everything fit in. Here is my review.

The visuals were probably the most impressive aspect of this teaser for a number of reasons. The drawings were excellent and i found they were absolutely filled will little details here and there. I seem to recognize this animating style from somewhere, but even if i have seen this style before it was only once or twice. The blood and gore looked fairly realistic, but still very good. The backgrounds were also pretty impressive. The reason i gave a 9 here was because of the lack of actual animation. The style was good as well. The lack of animation kind of also took away from the overall presentation of this. I found it a little awkward as the camera zoomed away from the title letters. It could have been maybe a little more fluent in a way. Other than that the style was near flawless, you made this Mod seem very violent and bloody, just like all the fans want. And im sure you were able to convince quite a few people to at least check it out. The sound was great too. The music was all right, but didnt quite seem to get the intense feel across perfectly. The sound effects fit their actions, i was not quite amazed but they were still solid.

Overall this was a nicely done teaser that accomplished what i think it set out to do. Just keep working at everything, refine your visuals a little further and just keep up the general effort in your future submissions. Nice job.
-Two Thumbs Up! 4/5

[Angry Dog]

Funny and witty.

Solid movie. This movie was great for many reasons, i liked how this had pretty much a little bit of everything. And the aspects were just all around solid. I dont really think there was anything wrong with them. Just based on this i can guess that you are a fairly consistant author. Always good ideas, clever plot, solid animation, everything really. Anyways here is my review.

The visuals in this particular movie were great. The characters were certainly drawn with a lot of creativity. Their designs could probably use a little more detail here and there, because the outlines looked great and some more detail could help complement them further. The character designs were also really interesting themselves, with different types of animals playing humans, as you call it "animorphism". The animating style was pretty evident and i would like to see more of it in your future submissions. The actual animation was good as well. The style was great, not just because of the animation style. The sense of humour was actually surprisingly good too. It was kind of like office humour, and the way the employees of an office would act in a regular party setting. It was interesting actually! The whole presentation was a little quirky, but that was for the best. It kind of made sense, while on other occasions within the story it was a little bit odd. The characters' personalities also add to this aspect, as you described the main character small angry and prejudiced. The sound was great too. This is pretty much all thanks to the awesome voice acting. All the voices did their part very nicely and all seemed to fit their character as well. There were some sound effects here and there that also helped out.

So overall this was a great movie, with some funny jokes, good animation, great voices and a solid idea/plot backing it up. Keep up the good quality!
-Two Thumbs Way Up! 4/5

[crabs]

Haha! Fun stuff!

This was excellent, and reminiscent of your Magical Trevor series. All the fans of that trilogy will certainly love the craziness of this one as well. Not only was the song catchy yet again, but all of the other aspects were solid. The graphics were smooth and often comical, and of course the style and humour were both strong and noticable. Here is my review.

The graphics were approaching perfection in that style. The animating style was incredibly fun by the way. I have always loved your smooth drawing style, it never really gets old. In this particular movie, the character and the crabs looked hilarious, theyre like the kind of characters that just put a smile on your face. I hope you use this guy in future submissions. The animation was really smooth as well, basically as good as it can get from what ive seen. The backgrounds were very simple, yet very effective. The style was awesome too. Just like the Magical Trevor, everything was pretty simple but the final product was just awesome. The catchiness of the song obviously helps out in both the style and the sound aspects. I guess maybe the simplicity of these movies is what makes them so fun, catchy, and just generally well done in the end. The sound was great, the only thing i felt could have used improvement here is the length of the flash and the song itself. There werent really too many lyrics to enjoy, and a big portion of the song were funny mumbles and such. Other than that, the song was actually really well done. Simple yes, but loud fun and happy! I really couldnt ask for more in terms of its quality.

So basically this flash was amusing, funny, upbeat, and in other ways just well done. Again, i hope you can make more short movies using this guy, hes just crazy! Keep up the good work.
-Two Thumbs Way up! 4.5/5