Chris-Aldin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Fred's Birthday Surprise]

LOL, i liked it!

This was great! And oh so charming it was. I liked this, and i couldnt help but like it either. It had a certain charm to it that i simply loved. This charm usually comes with all your submissions, and i have yet to see one that didnt. And everything was actually well done too. Well here is a good review to a deserving submission.

The graphics were excellent, though i couldnt quite give them a 10, for the slight lack in detail in the backrounds.Dont get me wrong your animating talent is amazing, its just i have seen better from you. The drawings of the characters are wonderful, amazing sense of human anatomy, though it isnt always real looking, you really know what youre doing. The animation is the most impressive thing about your graphics, it was so smooth, and you even put in many different movements, like making hand motions while talking. The style of this was awesome, i love your animating style first off. As i said all your movies have a certain charm in them. I gave you a 9 here because of the scene with the doctor was a little slow going, so perhaps making it shorter would have helped. The sound was great other than a small lack in audio quality. The voice acting was superb and i loved the sound effects too. As for humour, i chuckled at the end after the joke.

Overall i loved this submission, you are getting closer and closer to my favourite authors. Im anticiapting to watch submissions, and so far all of yours i have been waiting to watch. Anyways i hope you can make another movie soon! 4/5

Topdrawer responds:

Thanks Chris!
Your review is thoughtful, well written, and contains observations that can be helpful, both to me, the artist, and anyone else who is interested in critical evaluation. unlike so many "reviews" that are posted here that are filled with unbelievably bad syntax, misspelled words, and utterly useless statements like "I don't like the music", or it "wasent funey".
Thanks again

[Calderbank 2]

Awesome, i wasnt expecting that.

The good thing about this is you didnt absolutley have to watch the first episode to understand this. I think i might go back and watch it now that ive seen this. I must admit i wasnt expecting something soo good, and im very happy i ended up watching this. It basically had no flaws, maybe a thing or two to be improved but nothing serious. Here is my review.

The graphics were great in this, and you have the kind of animating style that i love to watch. It is very easy on the eyes, and everything is drawn smoothly, and the colours are just nice. I love your drawings style, not only was it smooth, but its creative in a way i find hard to explain. The backrounds fit everything else nicely, and the animation is great too, i cant complain about anything here. The style of this movie was good, even if it was a tiny bit slow to get going, i thought this was going to be dumb, but it definitely wasnt that. Your animating style is awesome, but thats not the only reason i liked your style. The idea is a little odd i must admit, but it is indeed funny, and the same goes for your presentation. For example, your dialogue being so unique is odd presentation. The sound was awesome in this too, i loved the quality, it was just briliant. Whether it be voice acting, sound effects, or my favourite part the music all was awesome. I really liked the song playing in the credits :D. Humour was good, i didnt laugh but i smiled.

Overall this was an awesome movie, and i thank you for putting me in such a good mood. I cant wait until episode 3! 4/5

EdibleCastle responds:

thanks for the absolutely splendid review. I'm glad we put you in such a good mood.

[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! ^_^

[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!

[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.

[Lord of the Clocks pt. 1a]

Wow, i wasnt expecting this on clock day!!

On clock day, many members of the clock crew will make sub par flash that would on a regular day be blammed or just pass judgement, there were some pretty good ones though. And to see something like this submitted on clock day was a real treat, with effort pouring out of it. From what i have seen this is amongst the best clock movie i have ever seen, it is definitely up there with 21 o'clock street which at the time was my favourite clock movie. Well here is my review.

The graphics were awesome. This is some of the best animation to come from the clocks, if not the best. The drawings were the typical great of clock animation, but this time you crammed detail into each one, and i was really impressed with it. There is effort in every little thing in this movie, the backrounds are no exception. At some points they were stunning, and at others simply beautiful. The detail in them was no less awesome than the rest of the stuff. The animation was very smooth throughout, well after i turned down the quality because i was on my friends computer. Really overall just a fantastic job on the graphics. The style was nothing less than perfect in this, andi dont think i gave ever given a perfect 10 for style on any clock movie before. First your animating style was improved over that of a typical clock submission. The idea is probably the main thing for style in this case, it was clever and extremely well executed. I loved how it was a spoof of Lord of the Rings, using clocks and newgrounds. The sound was amazing too, for really every reason i can think of. It set the mood extremely well, and the music was the one from LOTR i think, and it helped get that feel across to the viewers. The sound effects were fantastic, they were very numerous, effectively used and just sounded plain cool. The voice acting was simply superb. The humour in this came from the idea, i didnt really laughed but i found the whole thing amusing.

Overall this is the best clock submission i have ever seen. I hope you can continue with this series, its sure to be a great one, and if you are planning a series, dont keep me waiting for too long!! I want more! 5/5

StrangeClock responds:

Thanks very much man. Generally the Clock Crew likes to expect that most submissions on Clock Day are works carefully planned and started well in advance, but there will always be some last minute works and spammy pranks, this year being exceptional in that respect. Most likely, next year steps will be taken to prevent it from happening again.

[Natural Flight]

Nice.

This was great, but i was really expecting something longer. I really enjoyed what i saw, its a shame it all ended so quickly. Nothing was bad about this either, if it was full length, this could easily have a score above 4.00. Well here is my review.

The graphics were really impressive. I found the drawings really pleasant to look at, and they were simply well drawn. The backround was beautiful, and it set the feeling i think you wanted .All this was accompanied by great animation. The style of this movie was great except for the length obviously. It definitely should be longer. Other than that i really enjoyed your animating style, and the idea. The sound was great in this. In this case its just a matter of using more sound effects, thats hard to do in such a short movie.

Overall this was great, with only one big set back. Please make a full length animation as soon as you can, ill be looking forward to it! 4/5

Astropuff responds:

I figured the main complaint would be length from most people, but I'm just starting to fiddle around with more complex FBF and I did not want to end up trying something that was too hard for me to complete; or possibly even make.

There are some very nice plot-filled animations similar to this that I "want" to do, but I need to figure out a bit more human anatomy/FBF before I take on the challenge of creating one of those full length animations. So for now, I'm pacing myself so that I steadily reach my goal.