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[Drunk Monkey Ep.5]

I liked this, but it should be longer.

The show was about as long as the intro was, man! This needed it be a bit linger. I liked the penny though, that part made me fall off my chair! I was NOT expecting that!

[FF7: About Random Battles]

This was really great

...except my computer is slow and the minigame runs way to crappily to be playable at all, so I can't watch the extra scenes :-(

If you're going to disable the menu, please lave a quality control button (or did i miss that?)

[Biscuit Wandeling]

Confused.

I have a feeling that this joke depends on knowing some sort of local lingo and/or tradition or custom. You sound liek you might possibly be British or Australian (or surrounding areas)...What the hell is Biscuit Wandeling? What is that fish all about???

Otherwise, it was great work. Your graphics are nice, it was well laid out, paced and it sounded OK, but you can hear the pitch-shift in the voices quite blatantly (not that it was noticable that the voices where altered, but the fact that, especially on the high voice, you can hear the grain from the shifting). Nice work overall, but please explain the joke those of us who have no idea wtf that meant :-D

[Secret Mansion]

I can tell you worked really hard on this

But some criticism:

Stop tweening everything, it makes the movie look poor. Action happens too slow, too many movements look un-natural. Think about how things actualy move, and look at some tutorials about hand-drawn animation for tips that can be applied to Flash as well.

The voices sound like they where distorted when recorded, and the music was a bit loud in some parts. The reading of the letter from dad sounded like Y2Khai did it.

Work on your pace, I can tell you where excited to get to doing the fight scenes because the opening scene is rushed through.

Some lines need to be less cheesy; "Uhhh just go like clean the library or something man" and "I'll wear my gangsta shoes, maybe I can run faster" come to mind right off.

You have the drive to do a really great movie, i can tell this was not thrown together in a few hours. Take this criticism as a learning point and as your series goes on take the time to work on these things, and by the end you will be a much better Flash artist.

AligatorHead responds:

Hey man, thanks i really appreceate this critsim. Yes all this stuff you tell me is true. However there is kind of a story behind secret mansion...long ago i made secret mansion with a stupid comedy begining. SO i didnt like it, so....once secret mansion was done, then i had to delete scene one and work from there. So i had to work knowing how it ends, do you know what i mean? but hey thanks man...but dude....how am i tweening everything?

[Mario Mushroom Madness]

Decent

it's one thing to make a sprite movie, but there seem to be a ton of "huge invasion in the mushroom kingdom" movies these days,. Decently done, but for the next parts, try to add some twists, as this has started just mike many other sprite movies.

Also, it ran a bit slow even in low quality mode. The ROTMK series had this problem on my comp as well, probably just due to lots of objects.

[Paseo Viejo]

This was really really awsome!

Wow, I am very impressed with this. Now I know I'd never wanna work in a movie theater! I loved how the different people said things based on what their character was supposed to be ("Sadbiscuit" hahaha), that was a nice touch.

My head exploded when I heard "Scuzzleberry" too!

[Banana Phone]

Does watching a cartoon count as touching it?

Because now I KEEP HEARING THE F**KING SONG!!! haha this was great, and original. I thought it needed to be a little longer, perhaps with some extra twist, but then again who is ever satisfied? lol

It was awsome.

[Passion Of The Christians]

Not too shabby

...needs a little work though, mostly with pacing and timing of jokes, and their relevence to the situation. Characters needed slightly more depth, but at least you had the guts to joke about yourself withthe video at the end, which ties it together pretty nicely.

NOW GO GET ME A COKE, BITCH!

[AHTM3 Trailer: Kill Billy]

H0LY TEH CR@P!!!!!1111

You REALLY need to make a weekly series or something with the same kind of humor as this. Perhaps not arfenhouse, but just insane and ridiculous like that. Everytime i watch either of the first two or this trailer, I laugh until I cry. Every. single. time.

I cna't wait for the full movie, it bettar b liek an owarr long!!!11one

[Just Another Psycho]

Now THAT kicked ass!

Aswome production, and honestly, everytime some asshat comes to me bragging about their new Raedon or new motherboard or frigging CPU fan or something I wanna kill them.