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[Sonic: Uncut]

Interesting...

Well, I'll say this now; this isn't a good Sonic movie. The problem didn't lie in the art (which was great, it's hard to draw Sonic et al), but the problem did lie in the voice acting and the concept. I'll cover concept first.
It was a neat idea. Neat as opposed to good. The premise for a flash series based on the everyday life of Sonic the Hedgehog will only work if the jokes are fresh and relate to the characters they affect, and if the voice acting fits. In this case, neither necessary element was present. The jokes weren't as funny because they just didn't fit the characters. Sonic is really not that great a hero, even though he does know what side he fights for, he often dances on the line. He wouldn't be nearly as patient with Tails as he was in this movie.
The voice acting was okay, but it was definately not Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles. Shadow sounded alright, whoever did the voice for Shadow passes the test for me, but the others would all fail. And it's not that the voices were bad, they just didn't fit. I think you should reconsider the characters. The premise works for a cast of completely original characters, who haven't already been in comics. You should even adopt the Sonic style of art. But my advice would be to drop the Sonic premise and then keep everything else as it is. It would be a much better movie that way, at least in my opinion.

[Tenka]

That was trite and cliche

It really was. First scene: the lone dark clad hero stands atop a large building pondering things, regretting things. And the way the Tenka was explained was done in a cheesy format, but I'll get to that later. Next, an agent for some opposing organization stands behind him and issues a warning that he is going to kill him. What? Why wouldn't the guy just shoot him? Bang! Unless he wanted to convey the point that he was going to shoot him, in which case he could have made a loud noise, causing the hero to turn around and look, and then he could have shot him. It doesn't make sense. The he does shoot at him, but the guy moves his head out of the way (in a creepy bullet-time ripoff). You'd have thought he'd have moved his whole body. Then the hero does the cliche fall thing and lands with a little dust cloud. BUT HE LANDS IN A FIELD!! I thought he was in the city, not some random field. Unless the city ends right where he jumped down to and the building he was on was at the edge of the city. Or he was on a cliff (which wasn't made clear if he was) overlooking the city (in which case why was there a railing?). Then an angry mob of some sort of grey type monsters appear with their eyes, and he beats one up, which was the best part of the movie. Then he does a DBZ ripoff move (cheesy as hell, all of them, even the original ones suck badly) and launches a destructive ball of energy and vaporizes things. What have we learned? There is a ninja working for a corrupt japanese secret police service who is stalked by unknown agents and grey things that loom menacingly in a crowd, and the ninja beats things up and shoots balls of pure energy that turn everything white and leave a smoking crater. Well written.
Suggestions: Kill the DBZ thing. The fight stuff was pretty good, so keep that. Just kill the ball of pure energy stuff. Refine the plot a little. Add voices or speech bubbles. Try and halt all continuity errors or make things less confusing (the falling froma building into a field thing, for instance). All in all deserves an overall 5 and a 3 as a vote. Work harder, kill the spooty cliche scenes and the DBZ energy crap, and you have a winner.

[Matrix vs Equilibrium]

Heh that was cool

That was pretty sweet. Nice style. And you managed to get Neo to show more emotion in this animation than he does in the films. Good job.

[(2003)Hulky 2:Final]

Great Stuff

I am a great admirer of a lot of your work, and this one was great. I loved the pink fleshy oozy stuff effect, that was new. You keep learning and getting better every time you make one of these. The title "King of Clay" suits you well. I still think you should have a trans-movie plotline. Allow me to explain. You have a running series that you have started now, but each episode sort of splits apart from the others in a way. This is essentially what happened in the Joyride series. Maybe you should do more to link events in the previous movie to the current movie for your next one, and involve more of a storyline. This can work, although I am aware of the 50 second maximum length. Perhaps you could have events witnessed by multiple characters or something else. This series, and this entire genre of flash/clay animation (I will call is Clash Animation), could be big. You already have a growing fan base, so you should really think abotu dragging these storylines out some more, we all love em.
Some other suggestions: Maybe you could start a website and put a paypal link up so you could start buying some things to help make these even better, like a mock city set. You could get your friends to help, too.
Voice acting is going to be necessary, too. All of the guys sound very similar, and it may be better to throw some variation into the pot. For instance you could have a harsh male voice for a police officer, and then get a real female to do a female character as well. The voice acting right now isn't bad, but we would all like to hear more voices thrown in. I'm sure people would volunteer to do some voice acting for you. I'll send you an email with some contact information if you would like some help as well. Keep up the good work, hopefully this series will evolve into something that rocks even more than it does now.

Knox responds:

Long reveiw!!
I have learned how to compress files and now i can make my clay mations around 2-4 minutes long!and The Hulky series will be a long series because unlike joy ride this series will not only be a longer series,but it will actually have a story line.and sorry the voices do sound kind of alike,i will try to fix..,now the city thing,that would be awsome,but i dont know..im just a kid..with clay..and a computer..,but youre right.
right now i think the series will be around...4-8 parts long..who knows.
We will see how the nextone gos..if people want more,they will get more,if they want me to stop the series...then dang it...ill STOP IT!
and ill think about what you told me..thanks

[(2003)Joy Ride 3:Final]

Oh man these just keep getting better

Haha! Oh man you keep improving on your style. That was hilarious! Funny, funny stuff. And you even wrote in a sort of a plot like I suggested just to keep things running smooth and tie all three in together. It's sad that it had to end. Maybe your next series could be in like several several parts, each part showing the events taking place from another person's perspective, or whatever. You don't need to do that, but make more series' and keep up the great work. It'll be hard to top this one.

Knox responds:

ill think about that

[The REALITY of WW2]

That was kinda weird...

Alright, I have one question? What part of this movie really makes it WWII, instead of some random bizarre war that you made up in your mind. I mean, if you said it was just some made up war, then you wouldn't have morons giving you crappy reviews about how insulting this is to them or whatever. I mean then you wouldn't have to worry about disclaimers. Whatever.
Next thing, if this was all a joke, the punchline was stupid. Very stupid, in fact because I didn't find that at all funny. I mean they dance, big deal. It's not anything mindblowingly funny. But then, I also can't see how this offends all of those people. You would think not to take it seriously even without the warning. People just want to bitch, I guess.
Anyway, keep up the mediocre work, and hopefully it will go from mediocre to great.

Emagdnim678 responds:

I call it WW2 cause i like WW2. I find it really interesting aside from the fact of the deaths and whatnot. But i do see your point. Thanx for leaving your thoughts. Ill keep my mediocre works goin. thats all it takes to get 3rd for the day then thats just great! (considering i was up against the legendary frog today) Thanks again!

[8-Bit Misadventures 1]

Interesting

That was pretty much a blatant rip-off of 8-Bit Theatre. I don't care whether you have permission or not, but making more original stuff would really have boosted the score on this. I mean, you just basically took the 8-Bit characters with their different personalities, and put them in a new situation, and also in a relatively similar situation from a situation they were put in in the comic. Perhaps you could use different characters, or change their personalities to make them more original, plus then you won't have (as many) people pointing out the similarities between this and 8-Bit Theatre.
Two suggestions:
1. Get some voice actors. A lot of the sarcasm and comedy can then come out through the use of voices instead of bland text at the top of the screen.
2. Work on backgrounds. The sky in the first scene was white, you could have made it blue or something, and it would have improved the scene quite a bit.

CronoCrusher responds:

OK, please everyone, just read the whole comment i made before posting for the love of god. THIS IS 8-BIT THEATRE

it is it is it is, as you have said they are in different situations, YES that was the whole point! 8-Bit Theatre in different situations.

As it has been said we asked to borrow the idea; what does that mean you say? It means, their characters, their personalities and so forth.

And lastly we would have voice overs but then again you people would probably complain AGAIN that its just not the same as ALL of the other 8-bit theatre animations

[(2003)Joy Ride 2]

These are great...

The first one was funny, this one is funny, and hopefully you'll make more. They'd be funny, too. My suggestion, work a plot into this somehow. Like you could have someone seek revenge for having a friend run over or something, but keep the funniness level up. I mean randomly killing things is great, but randomly killing things within the context of a running story is even greater. Keep up the good work.

Knox responds:

its hard to put all that into 50 seconds,dont know if its possible..every thing would have to happen at once..but thanks for your advice.i love long reveiws.

[(2003)Joy Ride]

Awesome

That was frickin' awesome man. That was so hilarious. Keep up the kickass work.
The only problem I can see for a series like this is the inevitable retard coming up and giving it a zero because they have a 56k modem and they're too lazy to wait. Oh well, keep up the great work.

Knox responds:

well that inevitable retard couldnt keep this one down!
thank you for your patiance..i think i spelled that right..

[fun stuff 666]

Hehe sweet...

I thought it was funny. The movie was totally random, as totally random movies tend to be. You know what else is funny? The responses by the author(s). Hehe this rocks.

F8L responds:

i kno rite! I was all like reading the reviews and then I was all like.. dayum, I can respond and shit, and then like I did.. and it was like great. Whoa.