CheckeredZebra's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Moleman]

I feel like a lot of people are either overexaggerating about the content or have personal bad experiences with child molestation. I read the comments first, then braced myself when I hit play, but it wasn't NEARLY as terrible as people are saying it is. I mean, we've had front page stuff that was literally 3 minutes of Ms. Piggy putting her fist up Kermit's bottom/doing generally disgusting stuff. I guess there are concerns about these kinds of flashes like this normalizing the child molestation behavior, which is the only point I could agree with.

Anyway, the animation/art was nice, but the content, while I wasn't offended by it, was just unfunny to me. I mean, it was bland, even with the controversial topic. You could make this actually funny, which would be difficult, or you could make it extremely disgusting, which I highly discourage (we have enough of those around already). Character designs and the animation were the only thing that kept me watching, really. And it falls down to a different problem with the content, aside from its controversial-ness. It's just not a funny subject 99% of the time, unless you have genius writers.

[Savlonic : The Driver]

I am honestly impressed. I absolutely love this, I have nothing to even try to nitpick on. This is beautifully done. =)

[Fluffo]

Pretty nice, I'll ignore the venonat resemblence =P

I Think people are reminded of brackenwood so much because not only is the character similar in design, his observance of the world is done very close to the style of brakenwood. (including camera angles, head movement, etc.) His habit of blinking, his walking style, etc all seem like mannerisms that appear over and over again in that series.

Anyway, the reason I'm giving this a 4 instead of a 5 is that the characters themselves were all animated very well, but the backgrounds lack detail sometimes, and the black gloop character seemed out of place.

In terms of background examples, when fluffo was popping out of the snow, you used a gradient on the snowpile which was very...different. I'd have suggested simply getting a brush and shading the pile itself instead of using a gradient.
Other times, the landscapes of snow just seemed underdone, considering half of the movie was fluffo looking around at the scenery.

Finally, my qualm with the black goo monster is this: people associate that kind of design with pollution and evil. It might have not been a pollution monster, but when I saw it the first thing that came to my mind was "Why is there a pollution monster in a place with no humans or polluters?"

Also it attacked for seemingly no reason, which as a "nature" piece (that's what it felt like) he seemed woefully unexplained for the few seconds he was there. Was he territorial? Was fluffo going near some sort of stack of food he was protecting? Or what?

Also it doesn't make sense why it didn't like light. (Or was it just too big for the tunnel?)
I felt that was used in a cliche way and once again could have been solved by a redesign of the gloop enemy's appearance.
He's a monster in a deep underground cave, he'd probably have to have large eyes or other features to make him accustomed to seeing in the underground. (Only for some reason that large cove was very well lit, considering it's in an underground hole while it's storming outside. But that's just yet another nitpick =P) Anyhow, you could've zoomed up on a feature of him (his size, or perhaps large eyes) that was sensitive and displayed it, so when he did see light/whatever happened would make more sense for him to stop pursuit.

Anyway these are stupid nitpicks and this is a really good flash, it's just I didn't even have to think about the movie to notice these things D: So I can't really give it a perfect 5. Still though, I hope you do more as I honestly enjoyed the movie and loved the way you portrayed your character's thought process. =)

[How to spell dubstep]

You know, the concept wasn't amazing, but there was so much effort put into this in animation.
I actually felt for the kid that wasn't cheating and was hoping he would win; the visuals were awesome.

In the end, the concept wasn't super amazing, but I still got complete entertainment from it. And isn't that the point of a flash movie?

[Arrow to the...]

Amused me

It made me smile. And that's what a flash on newgrounds is supposed to do.

Could go into depth on your art and such, but no need to, seeing as how everyone else has. ;P

[Muppets 2011]

Not my humor.

Even though I'm trying to judge this seeing why this is getting 9s and 10s, I can't really see it D:

4 for art style. It was interesting, well done and kept my attention.

0 for anything else: I didn't find this amusing. Sure, it was gross, but it didn't LOSE points for that. It was just your typical "Be as disgusting as possible" flash and I don't get laughs/entertainment from that. I did get amusement from the bacon thing, but aside from that...nothing garnered my interest. I've seen it before, nothing new, and I never was amused by these kinds of flashes to begin with. So, basically the entire content of this flash did nothing for me, and with that in mind I can't give this more than a 4.

BUT you know your audience, and other people got a LOT of entertainment with this, so...=O Who am I to say? I'm in the minority. Still though, seeing a horde of 10s and no low scores, might as well be the one to speak out...
*gets useless review'd*

[Villainy - The Tape]

HAHAHAH

I have nothing bad to say about this. Favorited and 10'd. I'll be showing this to other people too.

[A night at the opera]

Most definitely not my humor.

The art was okay enough, if the message could've been funnier. I understand that the humor was supposed to come from the audience expecting sophistication at an opera show, and getting horribly disappointment (also the lyrics themselves)

But the first wasn't built up at all and the second was just juvenile sex humor. As improvement, I suggest that you focus on members of the audience BEFORE they enter the theatre. Some of the people waiting to hear the opera could rave about how masterful and sophisticated the dude is, only for THAT show to go on.

Then again people are giving this 9s and 10s, so...who knows. But I really can't give this more than a 3. Sorry =S