LazyEyedBarney's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Gwain Saga - Chapter 002]

The animation and artstyle are pretty good, but I'm not too big a fan of the story style or the character designs.
I mean, you pretty much just made a trashy anime. Very good work overall though.
It's just not my thing.

[Pico Joins the Army]

Good shit big boy.
Gave me some good nostalgic vibes.

[Brad n Dan: Amiibutt Unboxing]

Great. Everywhere you look there's always something funny going on.
I wish people would stop using that background music, but it works still.

If anything could be improved, I would say the last part was perhaps unnecessary.
I've never made any comedy sketches/animations or anything, but something I constantly hear
is to "leave them laughing". As a VIEWER, it's still humorous, but in the wake of something more extreme like Dan's stabbing Brad when psychicpebbles does his expertly screeched gibberish, it's a little underwhelming.
The last laugh is important to my subconscious I think.

Overall, though, from the animation, voice acting, and overall artstyle, this is really great.
Also noticed that tankman.
Will rewatch several times.

PhantomArcade responds:

Finding fitting royalty free music can be a challenge, but thank you for the review and advice! I'll try to keep that in mind for future cartoons

[Fountain of Youth]

Animation was alright, story and writing was shit.
The line "yeah, that's EDM you fucking loser" didn't sound right because
there was never a part of the conversation when someone said anything about any other form of (blank)DM music. The line then falls flat, because it doesn't make any sense.

Even if the story wasn't crap, it reeks of misplaced judgement.

I know people who prefer old stuff. Sometimes they like new stuff that sounds like old stuff. They don't want to be old, they just like different music, and have opinions.
Maybe someone doesn't want to go out and see a show they wouldn't like because they don't like the music. However, you think they just want to be old?

"I just want to be old like you!"
Seriously, what? This fucking writer.
Also, progeria isn't an STD. I don't know if that's part of the joke or not, but it's just not funny.
It's like you tried to make that funny, but didn't actually think about how it could actually be funny.
The old dude was Freddie Mercury all along? WOW YOU'RE HILARIOUS. YOU TOTALLY DON'T LIKE PEOPLE WHO ONLY LIKE OLD MUSIC, SO COOL.

Also, you lost half a star just because you took the time to bitch about another hardworking comedian in your description.
I find that he's got better comedic timing than you dude.

I'll repeat though, the animation wasn't complete shit, but it was pretty uneven.
You can improve definitely, but that's going to take some work.

One more thing about the writing. The foundation of all your jokes depend on the idea that the watcher also thinks the way you do about people who like old music. I am not someone who thinks they're wrong when they say music in general took a downturn when it comes to the really big artists. I still like a lot of modern music, but I find that older bands and musicians have a lot more talent because they actually needed that for recording studios to invest in them. Now it's different, not better or worse, just different. More availability of independent artists, but less talent being played on the radios. So you lose someone who at least sees their point, which is a lot of people actually, and all the jokes fall flat.

D-
You can do better

Flikkernicht responds:

This was a serious cartoon about progeria

[Rejected Smurfs]

Good. That's all I'll say.

vlaktemaat responds:

Thanks. That's all I'll say.