Mightydein's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Mortal Kombat Kock-ups]

Timing is extremely important with parody because references can quickly become outdated.

The mortal kombat parody finish moves is a ridiculously common type of flash movie.

I've often seen these movies manipulate already existing game sprites.

You added characters onto the mortal kombat game.

A lot of these characters from old cartoons, new cartoons, other video games, ect.

The combination of references was a strange mix.

I honestly would have rather seen this movie use drawings instead of game sprites.

Drawings would have increased the level of distinction away from other generic mortal kombat finishing move cartoons.

Claymation would also work too,

Lets forget about the movie's chosen look and move onto the rest of this review.

The voice acting sounded an awful lot like the originals.

Your actors did great voice impressions.

I personally found the premise your parody to be a bit overdone and generic.

I didn't enjoy the movie but have noted a lot of effort behind it.

Better luck next time.

-Mightydein

RicPendragon responds:

You are the light of my life and brighten my dark days.

[Vegeta's Private Time]

I get that a lot of grunts in dragonballz sound a lot like they are suffering with constipation.

I seen a lot of dragonballz parodies use that same gag of character on the toilet.

The grunting for powering up is a very easy target for parody.

You've overlooked other aspects of dragonballz that would be perfect for parody.

The animation flaws could be mocked in the form of visual gags and dialogue.

You could also make fun of other aspects of voice acting besides the grunts.

You could do silly tough guy voices as a way to spoof certain anime voices.

Pay close attention to dialogue conventions, tropes, cliches, animation flaws and many over looked aspects of dragonballz.

To make a good parody; You need to watch the original show with an extremely critical eye.

Keep an eye for flaws and than subject those flaws for mockery.

This was not a very good dragonballz parody.

You drawn a great vegeta with plenty of tailor made facial expression.

The first background was great.

I love how the way you drawn the bathroom doors.

I really enjoyed the sight gag on vegeata's bathroom door.

Vegeata was taking a dump and his men's room symbol was the power up pose.

That one gag was actually pretty funny.

The house plant between the bathroom doors was an interesting touch.

A caution wet floor sign near the bathroom door would have been better.

I rarely ever seen house plants around bathroom doors.

A wet floor sign has been an extremely common sight near public restrooms.

That house plant is just a small nitpick.

I seen them around public washrooms but they are generally not common.

You did a good job on the first background.

The second background is missing important details.

The toilet looks excellent; However, the wall itself is bare.

Where is the toilet paper dispenser next to vegeata?

You can also add a bathroom sink, stalls and other possible details of a public washroom.

The effect of vegeata going super saiyan looked excellent and I love how the lighting was changed when the yellow aura appeared.

Vegeata's aura altered the lighting of the room.

The voice actor for Vegeta did a good performance with his grunts and scream.

His voice acting could be improved a little bit.

Vegeata's laugh sounded a bit fake and it is generally difficult to preform a laugh on command.

Perhaps, your voice actor can do repeated fake laughs until it becomes genuine.

Practice ways to include a genuine laugh on parts whenever the character laughs.

Doing an evil laugh can sometimes turn into genuine laughter during performances.

Your job as doctor to bring out the best possible performances out of your actors.

Vegeta did a good job except for his laugh.

I would continue working with him and assign different characters to him.

Encourage him to create new distinct voices for every character.

In closing; I've wrote a completely honest review and have noted both the good and bad.

I hope to have helped with identifying areas for improvement.

I personally didn't enjoy your parody.

Better luck next time.

May your future endeavors be more successful.

-Mightydein

Dwolfdwolf responds:

Thanks man!
I appreciate you taking the time to write out a review and leave constructive criticisms. I'll definitely work on improving!
Thanks again.

[Stream of Consciousness]

Your drawings were crude; However, the animation more than compensated for this.

The moving pictures in your cartoon can easily be described as full animation.

I didn't see any pauses in the animation.

Animation is generally not very forgiving at lower frame rates.

Stronger poses increasingly become a requirement at lowered frame rates.

Strong poses are important for any framerate at all.

It's not the frame rate but how you draw it.

I thank you for providing me with some entertainment.

I hope to see new productions from you.

- Mightydein

KewinLan responds:

Thank you!

[Modern Love]

I would have prefer to see different kinda graphics utilized for this movie.

Your cartoon's design has the same look as the madness movies.

A few circles as disembodied limbs onto an even bigger circle.

It's not a very aesthetically pleasing animation look to be completely honest.

The characters don't really have any joints to their arms, legs and body.

The human body has a series of joints connecting limbs, torso, head, ect.

You could practice animation of more complex drawings by utilizing stick figures and animate those sticks using frame by frame.

You can act out your poses onto a recorded video to give yourself reference material.

You can work your way up with using progressively complex animations with increasing improvement overtime.

That madness look was not a very good representation of your movie.

I personally hated the graphics of your movie; However, your drawings are not the only part of the show.

The story of your cartoon is about a man chasing an uninterested woman.

The man buys an expensive item for that girl.

She than only calls that man whenever a bad situation happens.

I like the sick sense of humor utilized in this movie.

The sound design was alright for the most part.

The graphics just need more refinement and polishing as perviously mentioned here.

Keep practicing and start pumping out more movies to improve.

Better luck next time.

- Mightydein

kasper116611 responds:

Thank you for your detailed review, I will try new kinds of animation and develop

[Matrurd]

You got amazing backgrounds and see no reason why character drawings can't also be equally good.

Samus could have used a bit more detail.

Perhaps, you can look into more reference material of samus for your drawings.

I recommend that you study more already existing images of samus and carefully observe the details.

I seen a lot of chicks dressup as samus on the internet and many of these girls donned accurate costumes.

You have a lot of reference material to work from.

You are now ready for the next step after teaching yourself how to draw a more detailed samus.

The next step is building onto your drawings for a more original look.

Take your time with working out the poses of your animation.

Some artists form a skeleton of thier drawings before building onto it.

Others draw straight ahead and include the details too.

You can plan out the animation poses by acting them out on video tape, use stick figures first or whatever else.

Just work out the animation poses to the best of your ability.

You mentioned a low frame rate in a previous review response.

Strong poses are needed to compensate for a lowered frame rate.

Harofreak once taught me; "It's not the framerate but how you draw it."

That punchline about you not playing metroid has taught me something.

You never played any of the metroid games.

Your imagination can easily run wild and fill in the gaps.

That concept sounds like it has a lot of potential.

I look forward to your future movies and possiable orginal ideas too.

-Mightydein

Shoocharu responds:

Thanks for this brilliant review!
I know I haven't written this anywhere on Newgrounds, but the idea with the show "Whoops..." is I parody games I've never played before, based on what I know about them. So I feel like doing research would be kind of "cheating".

As for the poses and such, I'm practicing alot on. I do know the ins and outs of animation, I just have to learn how to execute them properly.

But thanks!

[The Sneeze]

I'm generally not a fan of those flash movies animated to a person talking about their life experience.

I seen way too many of those kinda movies and personally find that style of movie to be a bit formulaic.

This movie would not otherwise work without the described experience as audio being utilized.

Most of the humor about the tiny girl sneezing would have been lost in translation as a straight forward cartoon without narration.

The drawing style for most of this cartoon were basically chubby stick figures.

The guy telling the story within the video was the most polished character.

You could have built upon your other drawings to the same degree.

The overall movie could have used more backgrounds and color.

Generally, Graphics are the least important part of any movie because an unpolished cartoon can still be entertainment.

Your sound was clear and the recorded audio lacked hisses, pops and cracks.

You did an excellent job with sound.

The narration along with your animation combined to describe an otherwise mundane experience turned into a funny story.

I can see why others might enjoy this movie despite not liking the genre of the described experience cartoon.

In closing, I can see why others might enjoy this movie despite not liking it.

I may check out your other movies and try my best to give an indepth analysis.

- Mightydein

TonySantosWorld responds:

Thank you for the responce, I really do appreciate it. I barely started making Flash animation videos so believe me things in the future will improve. I will take what you said and try to improve from there. Thanks again!

[Garfield Hates Mondays]

I like the expressive faces used for this cartoon.

The backgrounds also acted as a secondary character to enhance character emotions.

Garfield gone completely psycho because of monday.

You could have delved into Garfield's decline of sanity by depicting his bad luck on mondays.

Garfield couldn't handle monday anymore because he kept getting hit with splut pies and jon could have served raisins instead of lasagna.

I'm already familiar with Garfield and his lost sanity was not out of character.

Garfield really hates mondays beyond any reasonable measurement despite no work or school.

Monday would be like any other day but garfield hates monday because of his bad luck.

Garfield is often cursed on mondays and the universe is out to destroy him.

Your movie requires the audience to have familiarity with garfield.

I thought it was a pretty silly movie overall.

-Mightydein

flushstudios responds:

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it and got the joke

[Batman mines bigger]

I often enjoy watching stop motion animation.

A lot of the effects looked great including the cotton used for smoke.

You created your own sets and animated lego figures.

My only major criticism is that batman was a ventriloquist.

Batman's mouth didn't move whenever an utterance of dialogue occurred.

The joker's mouth moved whenever he spoke.

Perhaps batman could have spoken like his teeth were together and given more of a tough guy voice.

You could even add a jokes about batman's mouth not moving for additional chances for comedy.

Self parody of animation flaws can often add an extra layer of comedy.

The sound quality also needs a bit of work too.

Other than these criticisms; It was a neat stop motion cartoon.

I look forward to seeing new movies from you.

- Mightydein

duffosaur responds:

thanks i'll try to implement some of your ideas into my next video

[Sci Fi Panoramic]

I watched this video without a full understanding of what is going on.

I assume this animated movie is your possible vision of hell.

Different creatures jumped to their death as an attempt for escaping hell.

Other creatures were tortured, ect

I like how you drew your monsters in this vision of hell.

My interruption of your visuals might be radically different from your own vision.

The rocks, cliffs, stalagmites and stalactites were beautifully painted in an entire variety of colors.

The television between the rocks was a strange but interesting visual.

I liked the movie as a stand alone entity as a short movie even if your intent was creating a loop.

My interpretation of this movie is that you created a vision of hell.

It felt like a bad trip and the resulting movie was worth the effort.

-Mightydein

BinaryDood responds:

Shit that is a huge interpretation. I aprreciate how much you read into it.