CosmicPenguin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

["Waterman" Ep. II Part II]

You've lost your sense of comic timing already

The first epsoide of waterman was great, you had a sharp script, complete with a family-guy esque randomness and wit, full of decent animation, plenty of pop-culture referances, and was just an overall amusing flash.

The second epsoide, especially on part 2 lacks this sharpness, i found myself constantly asking myself what the hell is going on in this flash, and given it has no solid conclusion, or anything really redeemable as a whole, i think that newgrounds feels a little let down by this. A series like this shouldn't be plot driven, but instead humor driven, which this epsoide was sorely lacking

I don't mean this as a personal attack on you by any means, you've proven that you have a talent in flash with the first installment of this series, but i'm pretty disapointed by this.

[Pube muppet collection 6]

I'm not opposed to shock humor

Nor would i give this low ratings because it's offensive, but instead because it's simply not funny. It's old, and the series goes nowhere new. Sure, i'll admit i've gotten my kicks from the pube muppet before, as a guilty pleasure of sorts, but it's simply no longer funny. Sorry guys, it's time to start on a new series

[Brain Dead Ina]

I'm sorry...

But i just couldn't get into this. Your drawing are little short of beautful, but the lack of true animation becomes extremely grating over time, and distracts from the movie as a whole. Also, the mic problems are pretty bad, and resident-evil grade voice acting and all just take away from the movie. (IMHO here), i found the music unfitting as well. This movie should have been great, but it just has too many problems to be a great flash piece

[3D Clocks Slideshow]

Damn

You've really got some mad lightwave skillz. I've played around with most of the major 3d animation programs before, and even in my many hours of tinkering, i haven't even come close to the works that you showed off in that piece. Great job, i look forward to seeing your future works

RenegadeClock responds:

Thanx, I've been using Lightwave for over 4 years now and there's still a lot I don't know. I've focused on just models, surfacing and lighting. Now I need to move on to animation. More to come!

[Mario Brothers - Part III]

Jesus, that was pretentious

I'm going to have to break away from the pack here, since i feel this film has many major flaws.

First of all, it's simply melodrama, with little in the way to back up it's story, other than the out of place radiohead music (to the person who asked, i believe the music is all from amnesiac but i could be wrong). The film drags on and on, far longer that would be needed for any well-contructed film. It has a very distinct faux-art quality to it, combined with the cliche approach of using sprites. Furthermore, nothing of substance acually occured in this epsoide, making it seem more like a college student's mental masturbation session than an acual voyage into making a good film. While newground viewers in general may reward your ambition of this film, i feel it lost it's way very quickly.

[Battle for the Portal Pt4]

A great ending to a wonderful series

I'm really unsure as what to say here as anything that i would couldn't match the greatness of that series (Or risk commiting huburus). Amazing job, one of (if not the) best submission to the portal, even if the ending was a total cop-out

[Kingdom Hearts May Cry 1]

I'm sure you can do better

Firstly, your tastes in music are horrible. I mean, that was just painful sonically. That alone causes the flash to be subject to a quick and painful blam.

With that said, the film itself needs work. The spirte animations that you used are rigid, and just look bad overall. That, ontop of the concept (Which needs work) is just asking for a blam. In addition to your weak sound effects, there's just very little about this piece that i enjoyed. I'm sorry if i sound overly mean in my review, it's just the truth

[random crappy animations]

Man...

What were you smoking when you made this, and where can i get some?

Seriously, fun, trippy flash, nice job

[Cat Gang]

Wow...

That was an amazing piece of flash, well animated, intresting plot, use of anime-styles, plenty of pop-culture references, and just an overall sense of the effort that you put into this. I really look forward to seeing the rest of this series.

[Vision Impaired]

A rare and unique film to newgrounds

It's rare for anything of artistic merit is acually contributed to newgrounds, and it's even rare for it to be something substanical like you created. A wonderful abstract piece, something to be cherrished for a long time to come