R-A-B's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pico's Unloaded]

Awesome

Bought time Pico was in a decent, gun toting flash. Funny thing is this is probably a tad better than the burly brawl, seeing as how the whatevers got all wimpy on the guns and replaced it with to much hand-to-hand.

Anyway, nice graphics, sweet choreography and general carnage. Its a shame pieces like this take so long to make......

[Fallen Angel: Teaser]

Intense

The best flash action vid ever submitted. The violence is brutal and unrelentless, but you resisted the temptation to revolve it around the main heroine and instead we get a fantastic impression of something much larger at stake. They are not all fighting her, its a royale rumble, with great graphics AND coreography, which is rare in itself.

Probably the best thing I can think of is very subtle, that when we first see the city its obviously a war zone, and as we enter I was expecting you to either cheat or just get it wrong by the whole scene being all quite like a ghost town, for the heroine to stroll through and really just observer the violence, or for all of it for some reason to come towards her, imagine my suprize when the balence seemed perfect.

With all this I can only think of one future suggestion, when it slows down and she's talking with someone or in a "safe" location, just remember everyone else is still fighting, and not holding a minute silence just for her.

[Star Wars Gangsta Rap: SE]

A Remake Better Than The Original

The original star wars gangsta rap was just about the first flash movie I ever saw along with the Xiao Xiao movies, and is what got me looking further into the art.

In fact I have the original on my comp and I love seeing the improvement, lip syncing is now better than your average pop video, the general artistic quality has come along leaps and bounds (I was impressed by the leap the the redneck rappers quality) and well all in all its a bloody good flash.

[Banana Phone]

AAARGGGHHHH

Very clever views on the song that can get stuck in your head. In fact 3 days ago at a party, we all got wasted and ended up singing this song, yet I'd never heard it before, so it comes as great suprise to see it here.
Anyway, the animation itself is etchy, but cleverly done so that focus is on whats happening not how it looks, actually with your permission I'd like to do a live action spoof of this with my mates for some fun (we like making exceptionally low buget movie stuff).
Keep it up.

[There she is!!!]

Superb

Brillant idea, great timing in keep with the music and clever animation that provides clear and detialed animation with the minimum of effort.
Well done indeed.

[Madness Apotheosis]

Shy of perfect

Madness is my favourite animation for a reason, that reason being pretty damn obvious once you've watched the movies.
I have to say krinkels I like the start and of course after Reloaded and Kill Bill the large group attack was inevetiable, and well done too.
The frame rate was, as usually, sickening and its impressive to see how far your pushing your artistic talent, adding in the little details like pistol blow back and much greater zombie fun.

However I was dissapointed at its length, I suppose as you spent so long on the disco sequence its more of an "all at once" rather then the previous drip feed style of action.

However I reccomend spending some further time lengthing out the combat, as it seemed that for quite a time most enemies just appeared to be killed rather than previous installements where our little hero actually got beat up a little.

The things I'd like to see apart from the traditional bigger weapons (flame thrower would be interesting :P) are a good solid fight sequence with Jesus and maybe a double dragon type episode, whereby he has a little help, would make for some more interesting combat certainly.

Anyway, keep up the good work, and bring out a sequel asap :)

[(old vers)Dead Rain 5]

A 9 for effort alone

That must have taken a long long time, excellent graphics, smooth animation great fight scenes, sure the plot is fairly corny and the speech just doesn't seem to click, but the positives far outway the negatives.
Theres only one thing thats been bothering me, he pulls out the gun, fires and it and hits the atmospheric generator, what, by luck? Only can guess that you just got bored at the thought of doing more episodes on him getting to the bloody place, so to skip straight ahead seemed a little cheap, but more fun and an easier way to progress the story.
Oh yeah, very nice explosion, very akira.

SickDeathFiend responds:

That wasnt a gun, it was a signal device, that activates the auto-destruct on the atmosphere processor.All he had to do was aim it at the general direction, the device does the rest.

[Redneck Gangsta Rap]

Good Things Are Worth Waiting For

Probobly the best animation on the whole of newgrounds, most are obvious in joints where the artist as moved the limb picture from A to B position, in this, well it looks like a PROPER animation, like something from "Monkey Dust" (If you've seen it you'll understand, if not, watch it. If your in America you might catch it on BBC America).
Anyway I'm detracting from the point, the animation is smooth, detailed and just bloody good, lyrics are not as ingenius as the star wars varient, but the video more than makes up for it.

In short, one of the best animations on newgrounds, may not be the funniest, but it sets new graphical standards for animators to match.

[Brain Dead Ina]

Shows promise, but should have been better

Like the title says, its a very nice idea, just lacking. Voice acting was nice and clear, but it seemed little enthusiasm was put into it at certain points, with no real indication of fear in voices, even some of the screams were weedy and more like an orgasmic groan (Though admitidly, getting any male to try to "scream in fear" usually ends pathetically).

The other thing was the overall animation, it was too flat, I don't mean I want it in 3-D, but scenes of neck breaking or face tearing had no meat to them, they happened to quickly, with to little animation frames and not enough juicy sound effects.

But the idea was good, with nice deatail and excellent quality of drawing, so kudos, and keep up the work.