Chris-Aldin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[FinalFantasy:Newgrounds 2]

Great! Ha, that was cool!

This was great man, and really original. I was quite impressed with most of the aspects in this. You made this fun, yet original and quite creative. I think this is one of those movies that you just cant hate, you may dislike it but you can never hate it. Here is my review.

The graphics were only good, but they certainly more than did the job. I liked all the little sprites and little versions of famous characters like Strawberry clock and of course Tricky the clown. What i loved most about the graphics are the Newgrounds backrounds. You really cant go wrong with those. The style was awesome in this movie, partly because of the NG backrounds :D. But i liked the idea of doing an NG/FF mix, its very original from what ive seen. The whole prsentation was funny, but good. The sound was great, but i would have liked to see some more voices for the two main characters. Strawberry's voice was there and i cant forget to mention Tricky's theme. I like how each sound went with the next. There was a good amount of violence and humour in this too!

Overall this was a great movie, and it is very original which always prevails in the long run. So keep up the good work ,im looking forward to seeing what happens to the heroes next episode! 4/5

[innerlight: the storm]

Great work!!

I Really liked what i saw in this, and i must say i got more than i bargained for. I was at least fairly impressed with everything i saw in this movie. This is also a very good first episode if you plan to make it into a series, which i seriously suggest you should. Anyways here is my review.

The graphics were great in this movie, everything about them was. I liked the drawings, though they werent all that detailed they had a really cool style to them, especially the evil mechanical genious. It was a good idea to put the buildings in the backround three dimensional. But what i found awesome about your graphics is how they were so atmospheric, the cool colour of the sky helped make this. The style of this movie was great too, and not just because of your animating style. The presentation was really good, just like a real superhero show or movie, except with your own twist to it. Thw whole movie was actually original and thats always good to see. The sound was awesome in this, the sound effects were cool but not just because of them. The music is what really impressed me here, you chose it well for this situation, and it really created the mood during the fight.

Overall this was a great movie and i storngly recommend making this into a series. Or if not dont keep me waiting too long for another great movie! 4/5

[Malltime Musings 5]

Woo! Great job!

Great work man, this series is really starting to grow on me. At first it was just good, but since then it has moved up to great in my opinion, they keep getting better. It seems you are trying to make each episode better and better, and i like to see an increase in effort. Well here is my review.

The graphics were great in this episode. From what i can remember they are definitely improved over the previous episodes. I have always like the character design, and now they have arms! And necks i dont think they had before. The animation is smooth and i like the backround, simply yet good. The stlye of this whole series is great, the animating style, presentation, ideas in each and simply the sense of humour is all great. A good style is essential in this series. The sound in this series is awesome, mostly because of the clear, easy to hear voice acting. But some of the sound effects are nice as well. The humour in this one wasnt quiute as good as i remember it being but it was good nonetheless.

Overall another great Malltime Musings enters the portal, and gets a score that i would consider to be very successful. Keep this series coming strong!! 4/5

~800th Review!

[Xionic Revolution]

Ah, what the hell, heres a 10!!

Ok, Xionic, this was excellent man. I must admit i wasnt expecting something so good on every level from you, well not yet, but perhaps later in your flash animating career. I mean this really had everything but interactivity, and i was really impressed to see all that stuff. It seems you have improved drastically since your last submission, or that could be that i happened to like this one more. I also enjoyed each of the 3 clips, though i think i liked the first one the most. Well what ever here is my review.

The graphics were awesome and i will say right away they have improved, even though i have an issue with one way you do your graphics. The backrounds are a single colour most of the time, even in the first clip it seemed like it was night, work on those a bit. Other than that i absolutely loved your graphics, as i always do. I love your character design each time, you see those graphics and you know right away that their yours, in other words you got an awesome, easy to distinguish style. I love the colours in all your characters too. The drawings of everything else were awesome too, i noticed how detailed they were, especially in the guns. Wonderful animation throughout, it could almost not be more easy to tell what was going on. The style of this was good enough for a perfect score, though it was quite perfect. I loved your animating style as i mentioned before, but it wasnt only that. I loved the idea of having 3 movies(well one was an awesome preview). Each movie was completely different and had something different to like about it. The first one being intense humour, and the next was action, and both were accompanied by awesome animation. The 3 was well a preview :D. I loved the presentation of each movie too, the first one had a lot of randomness that i have never before seen in one of your submissions. On the other one it was a perfect smash bros recreation. The sound was awesome in this, and in my opinion good enough for a solid 10. The music was great and suit each movie, or in other words awesome selections. The sound effects is what i was most impressed with, they were excellent. Some even sounded realistic. In the preview it would be cool if you had voice actors, just a suggestion. The humour in this one was better than any of your other movies, i actually found myself laughing!

Overall this was an awesome movie, and im so glad i saw it because i almost missed it in the most recent 50. I loved it! Please leave a response if you can Mr. Demon, this was impressive!! 5/5

Xionico responds:

wow thanks, and yeh, im still a learning flash author, so mi stuck with this symbols flashes.
well thanks a lot for ur comments! and about the abckgrounds, well bubble bobble always hav the background set to black XD, and the other flashes had a night background, and since i like the blacl k color the most, welll XD
and about the rpeview, the full version will do hav voice actors =°!
XD thanks a lot for ur review]!

[Triple Helix Ep.1]

Nicely done!

This was a very cool movie, and i really liked it..and not just for one reason. I cant complain about much in this, which is a great thing because i always look for things to critisize. Well im glad you resubmitted this because i didnt see if before. Here is my review.

The graphics really had their moments in this, at some points i was really impressed. At others, however, i noticed there was a slight lack in detail or something else. The drawings were generally very good, and nicely detailed, especially in the mutants. The backrounds were great, along with the perfect colour for nighttime, they created a very cool atmosphere. The animation was great too, but at one point it seems you used the animation of shooting twice. The style of this movie was great, until you thought of the storyline and idea. Mutants/zombies are cliche, try to use something else if possilbe. I did give you originality points for the opening story. Your presentation was very good, sorry i cant explain it any further. The sound was great in this too, all the voice acting, sound effects, and music were great. The one problem with sound is the quality, but thats easy to overlook.

Overall this was a great movie, and a cool first episode to what seems like another great series. I hope the series can continue this strongly!! 4/5

Half-Sanity responds:

Thank you! ^_^

[Kazahana FMB: Servant 02]

Great! The best movie i have seen today!

This was really cool and it really did remind me of Xin, which is a very good thing, as it is one of my favourite series on Newgrounds. But this was really cool,and it was very well done in each and every aspect. There arent really any flaws in this, though of course there are some things that can use improvement.

The graphics were awesome in this, i love anime on this site, much more than half the time they turn out really nicely in terms of animation. The drawings were great, the characters all looked great and they were all nicely detailed. I also really enjoyed the backrounds, again they were nicely detailed. The actual animation in this was very nice as well. The style was awesome just as the visuals were. I really liked the animating style first of all, but there are a few other reasons as well. The idea is wonderful, along with the story progression in this episode. This had amongst the best progression of the story i have seen for a while now. Nice presentation as well. The sound was great, but i noticed one bad thing here. Sometimes the voice clips seemed to cut out one another, and the volume of them suddenlt changed. But the expression of them was great definitely. The sound effects were great too, i particularily enjoyed the "pouring of the tea" sound. Very realistic.

Overall this was an awesome movie, and a great 2nd episode. Ill wait for a bit and if ep 3 doesnt show up on NG i will go to the site. Keep up the great work! 4/5

[kegel: peppermint]

Solid, Kegel doesnt dissapoint!

Great job yet again on this kegel cartoon. As my summary says he never dissapoints. I have been pleased with each episode that ive watched, but i cant quite call myself a fan. I liked this episode, it made me laugh and the graphics were pleasing. Well here is my review.

The graphics were very good in this, though there were some points that showed a tiny tiny lack of effort, like the grass is a quick example. Well the drawings are always good in this, you certainly have some talent. The detail is in general nicely done, this episode didnt dissapoint for details. And the animation is nice too, what you show is a pile of talent, but i still think you could be doing better. The style was good in this, but i find the length a bit short. This is one of those series where the episodes come frequently. I want to see what happens if you make a really long episode using all your talent. The sound is great just as it always is. I loved the voice acting in this one, Darrens voice is hilarious! And kegel's is just really cool. I liked the sound effects too. The humour, guess what it didnt dissapoint!

Overall this was another great kegel flash and i hope they keep coming. Keep in mind what i said about making a long one using all your talent. I hope you keep getting better! 4/5

jato responds:

WoW! thanks for the thoughtful review. glad you like the series and thanks for the detailed feedback!

[Pure Concentration]

Good job!

Great job on this man, i was definitely surprised to see that it was a loop, and i must say this is the best loop i have ever seen. It was fairly long for a loop, well animated, clever and kind of funny too. Theres nothing else i can really say here, so heres my review.

The graphics were great in this, i could tell right off the bat this was going to be protected. The guy at the computer was drawn with some detail, and a pretty cool style. The rest was well animated too, all the animation was smooth. Overall a very solid job for graphics. The style was great in this too and for a couple reasons. The biggest one for me here is the fact that it is a loop, i dont think i have ever seen a loop nearly this good, except of couse Magical Trevor1 and 2. The sound was good too, but i didnt like too much how some sounds overlapped with others. The sound effects and music alone were great though.

Overall a great job, a unique idea and a bit humourous as well. I hope you can make a full movie with graphics that good! Keep the greatness coming :D.!! 4/5

[Dot Matrix: Concentrate]

Wow, nice, very cool!

This is one of the more unique flash i have seen recently, or ever for that matter. You name something about this flash and it is almost certain no one can say another one that was in any way similar, except maybe the music video part. I dont see how people come up with this kind of stuff, well here is my review.

The graphics, while they werent brilliant or beautiful or really detailed, were great. Probably because of that unusual factor that i love about this. I loved those little pixel people, very cool and simple. The animation though it was tough to actually find something to call animation was very good. The style of this music video in my opinion is perfect. It is so different, it is impossible not to commend it for its originality. The animationg style was very cool as well. But the idea and the presentation is what impressed me the most here, very unique for both. Sound, good choice of song for this, it was almost like there were sound effects.

OVerall this was a great movie, i was pleased with this so i might go and watch the Contra Insanity series. Either way keep uo the great work! 4/5

Brotherbrat responds:

Your review was so excellent and explained that I felt required to reply. Unfortunatly I don't know what else to say except "Thanks" and thank you for your long review.

[Mutant Ninja Turtles EP03]

Unexpectedly awesome!

I must admit i was a bit skeptical about the whole Mutant Ninja Turtles idea, but then i remembered the other episodes in this series and i noticed this one had an awesome score so i gave it a shot, and im sooo glad i did. This was incredible man, this is the kind of stuff i like to see on NG, not noob stick fights. I like to see wicked action and incredible graphics, i havnt seen much of that recently. There were also some things that i usually dont see in a flash, all will be explained in my review.

The graphics, im sure you dont need to be told again, but they were truely awesome. They werent the magical, brilliant, beautiful type of animation, they were simply, awesome, wicked and damn cool. The drawings were maybe the best things overall about the graphics, they were so good. You drew the turtles just like i remember them, if not better and definitelyo with more muscle, so of course the outcome of them was cool as hell. All the other characters were great too, i dont remember Shredder looking so evil. The detail in everything was simply amazing, it shows you put tonnes of effort into this. And the animation, while it was a tad awkward in some fight scenes i loved it overall. The style was just about perfect in this, but it was close enough for a solid 10. First your animating style was awesome, you put effort even into that, and it really shows. The idea is great, i wish i could remember the other 2 episodes with more detail, but i think the storyline is progressing nicely, well at least it did in this episode. It is cool how you are putting a lot of action in, while making the story continue with actual importance to the storyline. The presentation was wonderful for a couple reasons, the biggest one being the cinematic feel and look to it. This seemed like it was presented the way a professional cartoon would be presented. Now the sound which was again awesome, but now quite good enough for a 10, though it was very close in my opinion. The sound effects were very good, but heres where the problem comes in, there were some areas where there should have been some, for example during the fights without some extra sounds it made it seem a bit stale. But that is easy to overlook if youre not looking for flaws, but i am because i am reviewing :D. The voice acting was superb on all levels:expression characterization and variation from character to character. I was pleased with everything.

Overall this was an awesome flash, and i never though id be thinking so higly of a Mutant Ninja turtle animation, because now i find them kind of corny. But this was anything but that, i cant wait until episode 4, keep em coming strong! 5/5