RazorHawk's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Treeater]

Good work nonetheless.

I don’t see why you had to use stick figures since you’ve obviously got the skill to draw everything else just fine. Still, plenty of good animation, lots of unexpected stuff, and some humor did blend together to create a decent flash.

Good luck with all your future submissions.

[Black Mages 5]

Best Black Mages Yet.

I’m honestly kind of exhausted of the Final Fantasy genre, but this movie was done incredibly well and has plenty of fun, quick, and witty humor blended with great graphics and plenty of those little extra things you don’t usually see from just watching the movie once. Plus the number-to-indicate-damage gig never dies and it’s funny to see it again and again throughout this series. But this time, whoa, the graphics dramatically improved a heck of a lot. My only complaint is I would have liked to see something goofy or silly happen to the Fighter character after that massive explosion and taking all that damage, but it just ended when a really funny finisher could have been added. No biggie though.

And by the way, my favorite character is the White Mage. She’s funny and hot.

[Afterliving]

Excellence

Its movies like these that give a little tug to your soul and leave you with a message, and this one tells children to get to know their parents before they are gone and tells everyone to appreciate every moment and every breath they have in this world.

It’s amazing that a movie can say and stress so much but never have a sound or word. Instead, I liked seeing images and actions paint the picture, as well as an outstanding soundtrack put into play and used very effectively. I honestly could never think of a better piece of music to go with this than the one you selected, and you worked wonders with the timing. So what if the graphics or animation weren’t “extremely precise,” I appreciate work like this that doesn’t try to be perfect, it just wants to get a message across and this one really did it well. I found it far more enjoyable to view this movie, one that allows the viewer to take in and absorb the message of this movie totally without the need of speech or sound.

In all, to say the least, I was quite touched by this movie. This is one that I should definitely pass along to my parents to see, since it would likely mean even more to them than it did to me.

soccerlord8 responds:

you've got it covered...thanks for your intelligent review.

[SoBéMon]

Cute And Funny

Nice use of sprites, seemed a little short but it was generally quite good. It's refreshing to see a Pokemon flash where no one or nothing actually dies. Lately there's been a sea of that around...

Keep up the good work. I'm not a Sobe drinker, but I still liked the animation.

Golden-Fox responds:

oh really? well welcom to Newgrounds.

[Pikachu vs Pokeball]

Pft, For Shame!

You draw and animate Pikachu so well but then you do something unoriginal and crappy like chop his head off. If you even just left off the head-chopping part and just let him get sucked into the Pokeball entirely, I would have given you a perfect 10 and plenty of praise, but no, you had to fuck it up and do something like that. Let me remind you that Astropuff and plently of others have done the EXACT same thing. It's getting old! So, I nailed you on style for that. And yes, it deserves nothing more than a 2 since IT IS NOTHING NEW.

Hmm, you have never seen Sonic get his head chopped off, right? You never see anyone from Final Fantasy get their head chopped off, right? What boggles me is why Pikachu always gets chosen for execution. And get a clue, you can never kill Pikachu. Why, you say? Because there's more than one. There's only one Sonic and only one Cloud, but there are HORDES and LEGIONS of Pikachus. They're endless. You can never kill them all. Never. And just knowing that... makes me smile and say to hell with your flashy movie. Whatever you tried to prove... failed.

Shame, shame, shame. Excellent talent, BUT NO TASTE! Biggest waste of talent and time I've ever seen. Normally I'd say "try harder next time" but that's not the problem here. In fact, watching this movie, I KNEW something dumb like that was going to happen. It's bad when your movies get too predictiable. Then you start getting like Stephen King and that's bad.

But if you do something nice, new, enjoyable, and non-violent with Pikachu, I promise you I would immediately fifteen it and slap it in my favorites list, and you probably would even score higher from the general audience as well. Hell, just look at Pikachu Music Video and how well it did. You could be next! But until that day comes, I have to give this a two and bow down in sadness at a movie that could have been... but wasn't...

Good day to you, sir. Don’t go and get electrocuted, now.

SneakySir responds:

Aww... But you're missing the point entirely!
This is not a movie I've been planning and plotting for an awful lot of time. I did this during one night only, and the reason It's really short and predictable is that I was really tired and wanted to get started with the actual animation as fast as possible in order to actually finish something that night, and couldn't be bothered by plotting an exciting storyline.

The whole point of this thing was to show of some animation, nothing else. I just used what came to mind at the moment and animated that, there is no statement I'm trying to make.

"Whatever you tried to prove... failed."
I'll tell you what I tried to prove. I only tried to prove to myself that I was able to actually create a 20 sek character animation in one night, thus breaking my drawers block that had been going on for a few weeks... Complete success!

And why pikachu? Well... Pikachus are just so damn... drawable! It could as well had been Sonic, or George W Bush or Santa Clause or whatever, If they'd had such simple and easily drawn design... Which they don't. So there's that... Drawing a pikachu just saves time.

You read way too much into this thing, man.

[The Atonement II]

Heh, A Funny One...

So stupidly random that it was pretty funny. I expected a little more but hell, I didn't expect to see an exploding chicken head right at that moment and I felt that was humor to be appreciated.

I gave you a 3. Just make the next one longer and you'd have one hell of a hit.

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

Oh it will be a hit.....

OR SO HELP ME GOD!

*shakes fist at the clouds*

[Ambush!]

BEST. KIRBY. ANIMATION. OF. ALL. TIME.

You sir, whoever you are, must be the Kirby-animating GOD. I have never seen anyone able to capture the original style of the Kirby animated series with the pristine quality that you just demonstrated. I couldn’t believe I was still watching a Flash animation the whole time I was watching this. Hell, you could put this alongside the actual animated series, and not a soul would be able to catch the difference.

I’m not a supreme Kirby fan but this goes above and beyond what I usually find amazing. Awesome and unmatched frame by frame quality, super-smooth animation, and yet still didn’t have any problems with running too slow or whatever. The flow, the execution, hell, I could go on forever about it. If I ever get as good as you with animation, I’ll thank the Lord God above for that kind of talent. This is just something that you can’t watch and not be amazed by it considering this was all done by a single person rather than a whole staff of paid animators.

Awesome, awesome work. I’ve given a lot of stuff 5’s for votes and 10’s for a review, but this one really deserves them all the way. Congrats on one hell of a masterpiece Flash.

[Simple and Clean Collab]

Good, but…

A lot of the tracing was evident, and yeah, like a lot of people said before, the lip sync in a lot of the parts was off a bit. I honestly don’t see what people like about this song, but regardless, a lot of the parts were very nicely done and it easily flowed together with ease, rather than having one person’s part look so incredibly different from another’s. I’d have to say, the work done by Diamondz and EvilLudy was exceptional, since I know that stuff wasn’t traced. As for the others, I’d encourage them not to drop JPEGs into their flash unless it’s for a background. Otherwise you’ll see everyone notice since they’ve seen those same images before. Regardless, on a whole, it was quite good and it definitely deserved the score it got.

And many reviewers I’ve seen have been commenting that collaborations are made by people who are “lazy” and “who suck and just want an easy good score,” but in my opinion, collaborations are unique in the fact that they allow so many people to come together to all share their own styles in a unique blend of color, style, and animation, and its easy to see people haven’t been appreciating that. I for one enjoy collabs and I wouldn't mind at all seeing more.

[Daily2oon07212005]

Some Were Great

Some of it was good and intresting, and some of it was a little sucky. However, as usual, DailyToons Season 2 (What I like to call it anyway) is definitely still better than the first.

-Frank-: Lol, sorry, but yours was shit. The picture was funny, but you need a new mike. :)

Jamina: A cute little short I thought was the best out of all of them. Definite quality, I only wish it was a bit longer. Keep up that great work, I like it a lot.

actionmes_brother: Definitely intresting, a little funny, quite imaginative, and full of bizarre creativity. Some people might think its weird, but I personally liked it.

Goldencat: Lol, I haven't heard Kris Kross in over a decade. Graphics were a little messy but then again, not everyone owns that absurdly expensive Wacom tablet. The animation was decent, but short.

Makes me kind of tempted to submit to DailyToon honestly.

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