Blessing's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Tyranitar, Defense Curl]

I was really confused. Is defense curl an attack? It sounds like it would be some sort of defense buff but he didn't use it until after metapod had already used all of his attacks. Maybe it's a debuff? Either way I have a feeling there's a joke here I'm not getting so I'll skip the humor and rate this based on everything else. There wasn't much in the way of plot, some guy challenges another to a pokebattle and loses. The art was alright, but the animation wasn't very smooth the audio quality was decent but the voice acting wasn't anything spectacular. This flash was... Meh... Alright.

PostTimeskipSam responds:

Thanks for your...blessing. :D Defense Curl is actually a defense buff.

[Trunks is a bad ass]

Well that was... Something...

Here's what I liked:
-The animation was very smooth, top-notch stuff.
-The art style was nice in most places.
-The audio was well done.

Here's what I didn't:
-The peak of this flash was "who the hell was that guy?" That would have been the perfect place to stop. Everything after that just sorta served to kill the comedy of the moment.
-2/3rds of this was really weird. Why did Trunks clothing suddenly not fit when he was hit by the sword? What was up with his back? Why is Vegeta reacting to this (if it's present Vegeta, if it's future Vegeta then what the hell is he doing here)?
-Why have Vegeta and Piccolo make out? That was weird and disturbing.

Overall, your art is fantastic, but it might be a good idea to seek out someone else to write for you in the future.

[Link got stuck]

This was pretty good!

Here's what I liked:
-The animation was nice and smooth.
-The joke was funny and well executed.
-Loved the end.
-The audio was good.
-You worked a lot of items in there.

Here's what I didn't:
-The style changes. 100% everything that I didn't like about this flash had to do with the odd changes in Link's face. From the trolly wrinkles in the face on the main screen to the chubby face in the part with the fairy, I was definitely not a fan of those moments. Everyone seems to be doing that stuff though so I can't blame you.

Keep up the good work!

Rafiles responds:

Thank you for your review! It is very useful and i understand your critique + i fully agree with it. I don't have very much experience with face expressions yet, but what you say is true. Everyone is doing it, so i thought people liked it. That's why i wanted to try it too! But according the rating and views, i failed lol.

[Teemo Special Guest]

I'll assume you're smart enough to know that if you didn't want it reviewed it shouldn't be on Newgrounds. With so many other sites where you could upload it for fun (or even in the dumping grounds) the only reason you would upload it to the main site would be so that many many strangers can see it (which obviously means they're going to comment on it).

You asked us to take it easy in your author's comments, so I will, but taking it easy doesn't mean pretending it's better than it is, just that I won't ask you to go die or anything. Your art was decent, but this flash has a large number of areas you really need to improve on.

1. There is no preloader. You should learn how to implement a preloader so that your flash doesn't start before it's loaded. This very site offers free, ready-to-go preloaders.

2. This flash loops endlessly. You should really have it stop at the end with a replay button so that the viewer has the option of watching it again or not. Alternatively you could use one of the preloaders I already suggested which would prevent the flash from endlessly playing.

3. This flash is too short. Flashes like this are usually good for practice, to make sure you understand the basics, however that does NOT mean you need to put it on display. Before you upload a 2 second flash to the site you need to ask yourself if it will be entertaining to people other than you and your friends. It's really exciting to realize that you've animated a face turning, but you have to understand that the people viewing and voting on these flashes have already seen it, several times, so the joy of knowing you made something just isn't enough to warrant a good score. You'll be graded on the quality of your flash instead, which brings me to my next point.

4. There is no plot. This makes pretty much no sense. There's not enough time for it to, really. Your flash should tell a good story or at the very least a good joke, this has an angry guy scream a rather random line and then Teemo appears. Does what the guy says have anything to do with Teemo? No, I really don't think it does. So it's just some random stuff. It makes no sense with no significant punchline, so I'm not entertained. Since the bulk of a flash score is how entertaining the story/joke it's telling is (or how fun it is to interact with if it's a game or something) then I can't logically give you a score on par with a ten minute flash when all you have is a 2 second inside joke with minimal animation. Doesn't matter if it's your first flash or your 500th, you'll still get a score based on what the quality of the flash deserves.

Overall, I hope this helps you improve and I hope that in the future you try to get your flashes to at least the 20 second mark with some real effort behind them before you submit them to the Newgrounds flash portal.

[Sonic's Adventure!]

Ohhhh... I knew I had seen that arms joke somewhere word for word. I can't give you 5 stars for a copied idea that wasn't yours (and as far as I can tell didn't involve the original creator in any way), but since you at least own up to it I won't 0 bomb you. The animation wasn't too shabby and the voice acting was nice, so I'll give you 3 and a half.

[Lix and Dean - Episode 1]

Not bad. My biggest bit of advice would be to try to balance out the sound a bit more. The mother and the music from the driving scene were both so loud that i had to turn down the volume but then when they started speaking i had to turn it back up to understand everyone. Use some audio editing software to normalize the volume next time and you should be good to go. You show a lot of promise. Keep up the good work!

LixAndDean responds:

Yeah, you're right :/ I have Audacity now, should help a little :D

Thank for your advice :3

I will :D

[Barbequestyle]

It's better than the original at least...

Bbqbeefburgerman responds:

f u

[: A Reason for Reboots :]

Why does Foamy keep sinking down off the screen. Is he giving me a blowjob?

[Metal Queer Solid Part 1]

Watched as much as I could. I'll just critique off of that.

Here's what I liked:
-The art was pretty good.
-The art got even better during the Aerosmith section.
-There's quite a bit to this flash so I can tell you put in some serious effort.

Here's what I didn't:
-The musical segments were too long. I understand if you want the visuals to sync up with the audio, but if you're giving us like 10 seconds of blank screen just so you can continue the story on the beat then you need to choose a new song, after maybe 2 - 4 seconds of blank screen boredom sets in hard no matter what song is accompanying your flashing light.
-The voice acting was, for the most part, pretty weak and unconvincing.
-The audio quality was rather bad, you should get a new microphone.
-The musical segments were too long. I get it, you want us to know what kind of music you like, but only focus on the song for a couple seconds then get back to the story with the song in the background. This isn't a music video.
-The jokes weren't real funny. The only part that might have made me laugh was the part about taking a crap on the desk, but since we've all heard that song the unexpected randomness of such a situation is gone, good sir.
-The loud lesbian with the black hair was really annoying both in her lines and her delivery of them.
-The angry lesbian determined to go see her lesbian girlfriend was kind of a whore with a one-track mind, short temper, and really no likable qualities. (I didn't watch the whole flash but I'm going to pretend that she gets impaled and in her dying moments realizes how flawed her personality is.)
-The musical segments were too long. ESPECIALLY the opening credits. That was painful. You SHOULD give us the option to skip them, but if you must force your credits and taste in bad music from last generation down our throats at least show the characters doing something in the background so the story feels like it's going somewhere. You gave us a crappy blank screen that I almost Xed out of cause I figured the flash was over.
-Between the annoying voices, complaining from everyone, rampant homophobia, and wtfhair, there's not a single likable, relatable character in this flash. Normally you want at least one character who either has SOME noble qualities, makes logical choices that everyone can relate to, or is at least very skilled in some area. These characters all seem to dodge all of these traits, leaving me hoping for their violent deaths but not enough to sit through the 15,000 music+nobackground sections.
-Also, the musical segments were too long.

You have some artistic talent and your animation skills aren't too bad either, but there are some areas I really feel you should consider changing. Keep at it.

[Avatar: The Other Ending]

The art wasn't bad! The writing was though. Very confusing. I kept waiting for some witty pun or something but this didn't really play off of anything from Legend of Korra. You could have replaced these characters with Sonic, Roger Rabbit, Sarah Palin, and a broken broomhandle and it would have made just as much sense. Randomness and humor work together in sort of a bell curve. The right amount of random can be hilarious, but when nothing makes sense at all it's just boring. This shot into that territory I'm afraid.