Oznedabar's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Captain Ig'nant]

Very promising

Perfectly executed satire, flawless in bringing it's message in a funny way.
We need more animations like this.
If you allow me to give a tad of hypocrite-sounding critique though; the animation was too short and too stretched at the same time. You need to pace up a little bit, but you could make this a bit bigger. It feels a bit unfinished. Other than that. the best thing I've seen in a while here.

Chakra-X responds:

Thanks a lot! We actually had a two minute time limit for the project, so I designed it in a way that I could keep it snappy but still cover my topics.

[Cuffs]

Repetetive, but

Repetetive, but a good animation. Did you know that reports have been made about people breaking cuffs under the influence of certain drugs, like AngelDust?

OrganizedApeShape responds:

no.. i did not know that

[A Real Street Fighter]

Modern Don Quixote

This looks like a modern Don Quixote, except for the lack of alcoholic compagnions.
Anyway, this was short, pretty well executed, and the punchline was rather good and unexpected.

[Kenya Bros]

Obvious Sarcasm, for those who didn't notice

For the people who didn't notice, Max here made fun of Egoraptor, Tom Fulp and the others before, so this whole flash is purely sarcastic because he kinda attacked the entire game-culture, including newgrounds and it's main artists in his WGJ4Kseries. If anyone was burning bridges, then it was he. And this flash is his extremely sarcastic reaction on not being invited into that collab. Mentioning Justin Bieber and all this Uhmm.. and uhm...'s were only added to make the sarcasm in this more obvious.

Sarcasm usually points to the absolute opposite of what is stated, so I guess he does not mind making enemies, hates cake, doesn't mind being invited, doesn't mind their alliances, does not feel hurt at all and simply doesn't care at all.

[WGJ4K: Hottest GameChicks]

As expected from HotDiggedyDemon

Like Mad-Hattr and Confidence below me, I too see a certain dept in this series. It isn't just another funny movie, actually, that's exactly what the first episode said; "This cartoon contains naughty words and really isn't all that funny".
Instead of the standard AwesomeRaptorclones you get over here (or even worse, an actual AwesomeRaptor-movie) you gave the characters some depth. This depth wasn't exposed all too obvious untill this episode, but all the time, it was there.
When Eric told him about the reallife dark gritty Mario-thing, wich was supposed to be funny, Mickey seems to tell from experience that that is not something to laugh about. When someone asks about his mother, he gets mad.
He seems to think that nobody knows him, nobody has been through what he has been through, stating that everybody is retarded, and does not accept the friendship of Eric and June, even though they still support him after all the times he called them retards and after all the times he punched Eric.
Also, he reads books, has been in a band, uses classy words like betwixt, plays chess and even knows some good poetry. Not your everyday smalltime-criminal.

Then there's the weird relation between him and the boss, who looks a lot like him, the boss gave him a professional crew and has spended thousands on new cameras and satelites, he even gives Mickey the lead in making the movies. He seems to have a motivation for choosing Mickey and for forcing him into doing something that he hates. At one episode he even beats Mickey at his own game, pissing people off.

Even Eric has some amount of personality and character, as he ignores Mickey's ranting about the boss in the way that Mickey usually ignores him. Also, there's a pattern in this, the contrast between real and virtual often pops up. Mickey being the "real thing", the sketch about Mario being "real",

But all of this is done withouth overstating the point, the point is kinda hidden behind the simple flash-movie-look of this flash. It seems like the characters, especially mickey and the boss, are real, simply because the author of this movie gives them layers but also gives them a mask to hide behind. The show seems to catch their more emotional and hidden layers by accident rather than on purpose. The characters are not exagurated romanticly as in most books and films, but they are not too funny and shallow as in most comics and sitcoms.
As expected from the author of the Jerry-series, this movie is layered withouth getting too artificial and romantic and kitschy. But at the same time acting to be funny withouth trying to be funny.

There's something truly artistic behind these flashseries withouth turning it into an artwork, it challenges you to find the depth in the characters yourself, for it's not going to show it too obviously. I respect that a lot, this can easily compete with the most artistic flashes ever posted on Newgrounds. Good work on this Max

[8-Bit Pwny Club ep.3]

Awesome

The Weebl is more original than any other flashproducer and is great at giving each flash a unpredicting turn.
I loved the bit about barbie's horse adventure, surprising. : D

[School 13 - TongueTied]

Short, absurd, beautifull.

Withouth using any words, barely taking time, you made a beautifull flash movie.
It is short and cute.
Ah, and it's unexpected and unpredictable, but that makes it into an even better flash.

The bonus pictures are fun to see, it gives a tiny little insight in the creation of this flash.

Nightwayfarer responds:

thanks, glad you found the bonus interesting :)

[The Lost Lake]

Nice work

This is one of those animations where the graphics don't matter. At first I thought this would be just stories of people in a train, then I wondered how the tramp could afford a traintrip. But the bunnierabbit was right in place to show the link between the train and death.
All the death-stories were quite nice, and I can't help agreeing with what Yash23 said, you're a genius.
You'll get far in this world with imagination like this.

PS- good choice of mainly using thick lines and keeping it overall rather undetailed, it made it easy to recognize the scenes in an instant.

PapaLongLegs responds:

thanks, the first detailed compliment for the artwork! I am working on keeping it persistant, but the simplicity is staying