IceSage's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Zahtas: Ep 3 Love and...]

You seem to have the potential to clean this up and make it seem much more epic visually. Regardless, I thought this was rather funny and I'm going to check out the rest of the series.

You've got that type of non-sequitur humor I remember being thrilled to watch back in Matt Wilson's Bonus Stage era. (Only with a quirky, perverse edge.)

I voted 5, but this review gets a 3 5 due to the first thing I mentioned. It could be WAY more presentable. (For example, things are disproportional. Camera seems somewhat off and skewed. Perhaps check out V-Cam?)

Regardless, good work. I'm gonna check out the rest. You seem young and the humor is rather on par to your age... I have a feeling as you practice and comical maturity rises, you'll great something great in the future.

thebreadandbutter responds:

Thank you for the actual review rather than just saying "you suck" or "lol nice", it means allot to me that you'd take the time to write this. With the v-cam I think what ruined that was having the entire animation be on one seen (which is what I am planning to fix in future animations so stay tuned, I would love to have a good critic like you giving me feedback to help my animations evolve.)

P.S. the animation was written by thepilgrim202 aka Zoltan

[Lincoln Park tribute]

The only gripe I had about this is that the main character, in a field of woes... relying on this music CD... claims he went "Super Saiyen" on people. However, the personn being displayed was just a normal saiyen. Super Saiyens have yellow hair.

icyentertainment responds:

Wow ummm I don't watch DBZ but this IS a movie about my life, so don't be nitpicky, n00b.

[Idol x Balança]

Your loader is slightly broken. It displays Play immediately without actually loading, which made the scene before it finished look terrible. (The wall was constantly on fire for a good minute.) I had to rewind it and start again to realize what was going on.

For some reason Idol turns into a human... Was it suppose to be funny? I don't understand. Is Idol a human who thinks he or she is a furry?

The animation was pretty good / decent. Good comical cartoon music. However, I just wasn't feeling it.

Even though I can understand the language displayed, I have negative reservations about those who upload movies to a primarily English site in another language without any alternative. I mean, it's not hard to understand what's going on... It just seems odd.

You also linked a deviantART account... but gave no option for the viewer to slow down and copy the URL... nor was it clickable. Perhaps put it at the end like you did your YouTube links?

It was decent to watch, I voted 3.

Taigo responds:

Sorry this update did not have time to check issues, another time.
The site may be English but is the only one who supported me from the nessecario to have a slow net.
If you want an English version okay I'll post an English version, but do not understand this prejudice on the part of you with other languages​​.
But thanks for watching!

[Christmas surprise my first animation]

Your first flash animation seemed to have more substance than the narrator version with the fire. I thought that part was suppose to be the "first flash animation." Music didn't end after the flash was over by the way, Poor coding.

megadrivesonic responds:

odd the music should have ended since i cut off the frame

[Versarie]

This "animation" is one still frame wishing me a "Happy Anniversary." I'm not quite sure what the point of it was. Keep this on your DeviantART. Avoid posting this on Newgrounds.

Pikacheez responds:

Thank you for your honest review ^^

[Ball Bounce Test]

I was going to rate it a 2 for a decent animation loop, even though there's nothing to this movie. However, the music just keeps looping, over and over again. The crowd just keeps getting more and more people and the band plays over itself somehow... Like a bunch of nerds trying to tune their tubas during band practice.

Bugdog001 responds:

Yeah, I didn't realize the sound would do that, really fucked up the whole thing, really.

[Megaman Black 2]

A slightly decent Sprite Movie.

I'm not opposed to sprite movies, however it does annoy me when people do them completely wrong. However, you were pretty on par on yours, which made it watchable, and thus, I appreciate that!

The only real gripe I had about this movie was that horrid spelling mistakes. Were these intentional? Did you have to translate the movie from Japanese to Engrish?

One more thing that I thought was odd was when you mixed in MegaMan blasting with a completely different sprite. Why have, for the whole movie, you zoom in on the sprites to the point that the pixels take up half the screen... then randomly decide you want to switch sprites?

The thing about sprite movies is, if you're going to do it in "sprite style" you need to stay consistant with the sprites you're using.

I really enjoyed the fighting scenes, as well as the music and sound effects. The plot was interesting... Except I don't understand why they were searching for planes. I didn't even see one plane through the whole movie!

Of course, this was your spelling mistake, which, I still don't know if it was intentional or not.

I say through the whole thing, so, that says something for you.

jutopa responds:

The spelling is not intentional, no im not analphabet. the spelling is bad because im spanish and i dont talk well the english.
they werent looking for planes, they were looking for blueprints!
sorry, was my horrid english spelling.

[Happy Birthday Frank!]

Needs more added.

Perhaps you were in a rush to get this done for a Frank... Or perhaps it was suppose to be a real animation and there is no Frank. I honestly don't understand if it's dedicated to someone, or if the whole animation was suppose to just exist in it's own universe.

If the latter is true, this animation needs some serious work. If the way you drew everything was your art style, that's fine... But you need to add more to the animation.

You can start with adding some background music, perhaps some sound effects. Sound effects for the hot tub, phone ringing, etc.

You can even get a step farther and try to at least attempt some voice acting for the person on the phone. If all you have is your own voice, and it doesn't match, you could always just record yourself muttering incoherent words, so they can go along with the text.

Anyway, if there's really a Frank... Then Happy Birthday Frank.

NessSuccess responds:

its alright i made this in an hour or two. I needed to get it done. I just used newgrounds to host it so I could show it to him. Thanks for the review!

[TTB Vol. 1 "Time Bears"]

Hilarious concept.

This is a hilarious concept. Bears that time travel... And fight crime...

...and solve mysteries!

The only problem I had with this preview, or "episode" or whatever you want to call it... Is that a couple of music tracks were either cut off, or missing.

I notice you told a previous reviewer that there aren't any sound bugs like this. I'm sorry to say, there are, cause I noticed it too. You might want to check it out. When the bears come flying from the sky, something gets cut off before he says something. Also, the introduction theme gets cut off halfway through.

I voted 5, anyway... Just because the concept alone is pretty awesome.
My review is a 7, though... because it just seemed rather short, rushed... and was missing sound. Also, it's presented in a "WE'RE BACK" type of way... repeated over and over again. But um, I don't even remember the "Time Traveling Bears" well... at all... Ever. Was uh, that the joke? Or what?

altffour responds:

The audio problem was just fixed, it happened when I tweaked something slightly for re-upload.

Sorry about the mistake, glad you voted five.

[Awesome Video Games Ep32]

AWESOME!

Whoa, at first I was like, "Whoa, what's AVG doing here?" I'm glad you were able to pull off a player in flash format, guys.

Nothing else to say except that AVG is... Awesome.

I'm taking it that other reviewers are disturbed that a video format is here on Newgrounds. Newgrounds can host anything, not just crappy stick figures drawn by 5 year olds.

I'm sure if this video was some 10 year old doing a crappy claymation project, you would've voted higher.

Another thing, I read somewhere that it said it was a ripoff of "Angry Video Game Nerd." ... "Awesome Video Games" is FAR from it... and if I remember correctly, AVG has been around for a LONG time. There's a difference in style... it's a completely different show. It just has to do with video games, which is the only similarity.

These videos already are on YouTube and other sites. However, posting it here is great so it can get more publicity... And I honestly think they pulled it off in a fashion that's great for flash. It had a border around the smaller player, and the quality wasn't damaged too much by it.

Too much crap gets vomited onto newgrounds people don't even realize the difference between something horrible and something good anymore.

Everyone who didn't vote constructively... go back to jerking it to your Pokemon Hentai and Kitty Krew animations...

...or, wait... I think they're the same thing...

FarFromSubtle responds:

Thanks bro. ;)