Migel's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Duke Nukem Fail]

Heh nice references

When I played duke nukem for first time i thought all the lines he said were really cool and original. It was only untill later that I found out he was just a walking parody of movie one liners.

Anyway this movie captured that perfectly. The voice acting could have been slighly better but the artwork compasated for this.

Loved the they are eating reference btw ;)

[SMRPG Waltz of the Forest]

Great comeback

This is some quality stuff. The animation and drawings had some style to it. The music was really nicely done. I was to young when this game was released but I played on a emulator later and I think this is a good tribute to it.

Fucking good job and great comeback

[Morphemon Duelists Ep.2]

Needs a front page. ":)

I would have given a ten for the intro scene. But it just got better from that point on.
And everytime i thought the pacing got bad, jokes like "eggs are just chicken pms" slapped me in the face. That was the only thing wrong with this really the artwork leaves a bit of emptyness and speed of conversations feel sometimes slow but damn those are just minor things.
Its so well done its worth the couple of years waiting for a sequel. Any good job gonna watch this stuff again ;)

[The Real Legend 4]

Bad parts, good parts

Lots of forced humor. With that I mean that I see a lot of jokes which are good but then when the time is there to move to next scene a lot of fart/slaptstick/repetitive humor is put in. Which kind of kills the pace of the movie. And it felt rushed I do understand that this has something to do with the filesize + hardware.

I wouldnt suggest continueing with this series because it feels milked. The first episode was funny but animation and drawings were not that good. The second one was awesome, the humor was good, drawings and animation was nice and the atmosphere was simply brilliant. But then came part 3 and now part 4.

[Kawaii Battle Stars]

Pfoe decent but already done.

The graphics and animation was done nicely and the style was clean and consistent. The only problem i have with this work is that its closely related to that anime serie egoraptor did. Though I have to note that the voice acting in this series was better.

Dont make another one plz and let spazkid get back to his fucking work.

AxelTheNavy responds:

Buttity not In-pooted animated by Asskid420

[Resident Evil Code: Pwanchi Pt 1]

Awesome

I felt somewhat dissapointed with the ending of last series so this is a nice suprise. Once again you managed to capture the atmoshpere of the series while putting it in a comedy suit.
The only thing that could have been bad about this series was Alfred seeing as noone could step into the shoe that Legendary Frog left behind.
But that let to a funny surprise ;)
Anyway looking forward to this series....dont rush the ending ;)

cyotecody555 responds:

Haha you won't have to worry bout that XD
This thing is huge

[SS - The Flower of Life]

Nicely done

Though im big skepticist about this you have made me keep attention for a large part of the movie. The graphical explanation and the pace of the explanation made it watchfull. I did have to end the movie after the part of pyramide though, it started to become to much coincidental.

I am big fan of truth behind lies or conspiracies and i know that its a weakness of mankind to distinquish clearly between coincidence or relation. I believe a good theory needs to be build up from start and find its way up because when you do a top down theory you can just capture as much of cioncidental events toghether till you make your theory work.

[Banana Boat]

My kind of movie

Too bad there arent more movies around like this on ng. The only problems I had with this is that the animation sometimes felt empty ( lot of white ). Also the mic
quality was a bit bad when speaking the p loudly.

Otherwise interesting stuff ;)

Virgilcomic responds:

thnx maybe check out some of me other anis

[Captain Ig'nant]

Its okay

Well it surely was entertaining. Graphics were pretty good and animation was superb, exspecially at the start. After that it was okay still but there was less animation involved. Good job on that.

Problem i have as some would agree with me after youtubing "boondocks n****r moment full explanation", that the general joke idea and some of the lines were bluntly stolen. Even the way n****r is pronounced in this movie feels like a rippoff and some the animations feel rather familiar. Now i dont mind if someone occasionally steals a joke but roughly 70% of this flash doesnt eye original.

You still entertain me nonetheless buts its like you stole a ferrari and some guys like "hey that guy stole my ferarri" and im standing on the sidewalk saying "yeah well he driving that vehicle like its suposed to be". I mean its nice and all but you should be in jail ;)

Chakra-X responds:

I must disagree sir. I love the boondocks, I know exactly what the "n moment" episode is, and I even looked at that episode to how it escalated and to see if mine was too close.

I had two black guys get in an argument and then settle their differences. Boondocks at two black guys argue, shoot each other, then settle their differences before getting shot. That concept is not owned by the boondocks. I constantly here on the news about senseless shootings in inner city neighborhoods that started from "an argument", or I have seen fights break out over stupid shit back in high school, so having to black people get angry over nothing and *not* shoot each other, which everyone is expecting, meant a lot to me. No way in hell was I going to decide to not include the scene because it reminded me of boondocks. That shit happens a lot, Boondocks did not make it up.

Boondocks popularized the pronunciation "nyuckah", mainly with Stickmeaner. My voice actor for Captain Ignant tried doing that once, and I said no because people would say I am stealing from Boondocks. The only similarities is that both Boondocks and my cartoon use the n word much more often then other cartoons, so that makes (bogus) similarities.

As for the rest of the cartoon, past the two black guys fighting, I see nothing remotely stolen from boondocks. Boondocks did not have a super hero with laser 'Sambo' vision, or turning school kids in to thugs, or getting girls pregnant.

I am all fine with Boondocks comparisons, it's hard not to make the distinction, but to say I am stealing is a bit much!

[Warriors of the Portal]

Might have to squint through a couple of scenes

The models were awesome.

But the animation for most fights looked pretty slow. Also for some reason while having all the original voices it didnt seem to fit the action scenes at all. It seemed like they had to force in their sentences. It felt like playing a video game in a store based on a real movie with the actual voices that dont really fit with the stuff going on on the screen.

First time I watched this I had no idea what was going on half the time and I had to squint my eyes to watch through some scenes while other scenes were beautifully done i was about to rate this somewhat poorly. I started to apriciate those scenes better after rewatching it couple of times. Again exspecially the details of models and lighting that i missed in first run caught my eye.

There has been done a tremendous ammount of work for this movie and even if the outcome on some occasions remind me of an old 3do game most scenes are pretty well done if not superm. I mean anyone watching scene where the redbaron cape fly up while the gates opened must have felt some kind of awesome shiver ;)

It could have been that I am spoiled by movies like touhou 3d dogfight on utube though( which had horrible models compared to this but actually brings in a lot of speed and suspense which is really lacking here ).

My suggestion mainly are to try to speed up some animations. When someone turns his head he does is so quick that often in traditional animation they only make 3 independent frames without the viewer looking oddly at it. In this flash it felt like they were fighting under water. Also it wouldnt hurt to bring in a couple more close ups and different camera angles instead of a camera that seems to move with same speed as the animation.