Jimbo-Limbo's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Left4lol:Survive This]

Go to YouTube.

I think it's a good idea to head to youtube - there, no one will question the intentions of your animation and will just be happy to see familar faces from a video game... no matter how they look.

You established the AI are retards in your first animation, so you accomplished nothing new really humour-wise with this one. Apart from that, we have a couple of toilet humour jokes and an out of place Rocky Horror parody. What is the tie in with Left 4 Dead by the way? How was that clever? Very clever of you I guess to know that combining two popular things together might allow most people to look past the sub-par animations/drawings, haha. The scene itself was far too dragged out and might have been acceptable if it had ended with the explosion, however cliché'd that was.

The animation and ESPECIALLY the drawings seemed worse in this one compared to the original "Left4LOL". I remember them being OK in the last one, but some of the backgrounds and character drawings in the Rocky Horror scene looked as if a 10 year old had just discovered the rectangle tool in paint. The artwork towards the end suggests you yourself got sick of the parody by then and just wanted to end it. Your drawings for "The Lady's Room" were better than this, and that was 2 years ago, so why has the quality declined?

Enough of the review for the animation though, everyone has said what needs to be said about it. I really want to ask though, about the "...but I need to leave now or I might end up just repeating the same toons over and over again" comment.

I noticed you wrote this as a responce to someone...

"Newgrounds will forever love its poop humor, sex jokes, animated penis's, and madness. That's fine because that's what Newgrounds loves, and there's nothing wrong with it."

Seriously? What about "Gretel and Hansel"? "Tarboy"? "Bitey of Brackenwood" to name just a few? Don't blame Newgrounds for unoriginality - that is fault of the author. The only thing YouTube will do is lower your standards of what people find an acceptable quality of artwork and humour, as no one there will take the time to review your stuff properly.

I get this feeling however that you're only after "lol dat wuz cool" comments. Looking at past animations of yours, it seems you just attack people that offer criticism. I know some people can be "dicks" when they offer criticism, but it's up to the author to accept that not everyone will enjoy their work and to improve it for a wider audience by listening to such reviews. I would have thought that a 20 something year old would have learnt how to deal with the trvial task of responding to NG reviews maturely?

I was happy to read however that you have intentions of moving into darker territory with your animation. Let's be fair, video game parodies are just overdone. I can't even bring myself to watch my old animations from 4/5 years ago as I find it far too cringy to think that I found that funny at the time. If I were to pick up flash again, I'd like to think I'd animate in a similar territiory. It's different and can be enjoyable/acceptable to use those great horror movie clichés. Maybe I'll catch some of this stuff on YouTube one day.

I'll finish with a quote. You may recognise where it's from and I think it can be quite safely applied to yourself now with your attitude about Newgrounds. I might take the same advice too looking at the length of this review...

"I'm not sure how far you have your head up your ass but at this point I am sure that it's managed to pop back between your shoulders... So take your ass out of here and go back to your ego and sit sit in your room, stroking it."

[300 Revisited]

Yeesh.

Out of everything that happens in The 300, this is the best you could come up with? What was the school project exactly, imitate an 11 year old's attempt at creating a parody of a 5 year old movie? Run a script by someone first or something.

The animation was pretty good I guess, if not a complete rip-off of Lazy Muffin's style.

BmacDelete responds:

cool dude

[The Kirby Collab]

Lol, long review.

As a giant man-child who played an unhealthy amount of Kirby games in my youth, I couldn't help myself in watching something related to him...

I admit, and with all due respect, I wasn't expecting much when I watched this. It's quite similar to many other collabs, if not all, on NG now. Take a video game character - add real life situation/issues/memes, end. I made this mistake when I used to animate, of writing a script as I animated, instead of writing a script first, making sure it was funny/original, and sticking to it, and that I think is some advice to take home. With the amount of organisation that went into this, I have to question whether any time went into looking over the actual sketches that were being animated.

Some of the jokes were repeated, such as bringing to light the many fights Kirby has with Meta Knight or Kirby thinking he is gay because he is pink. A collab should really bring everyone together to trade and discuss ideas to ensure each sketch can be original from one another. As for the other sketches, most seemed to be some sort of situation such as fighting or talking followed by a very over done meme. There's no point putting so much time into an animation without thinking the sketch through itself. I made that mistake when I used to do it and I regret it so much.

It's difficult to do something original with video game characters as almost every joke could have been used for any other video game (for instance, Kirby and Waddle Dee talking in a bar to have meta knight demand a fight. That could have just as easily been Mario talking to Luigi to have Bowser demand a fight)

In your comments you mentioned this took nearly 12 months (which is perfectly understandable considering everyone has lives to get on with and such), but you really could have done something more. If you intend to do another collab, I would just suggest talking as a team more to ensure everyone produces something original and funny. Don't be afraid to say to each other if you think something needs changing, just think of the outcome.

I had no problems with the animation and graphics considering the age of some of the people who contributed, but the humour, which the animation is all about, just isn't there. I know "different people find different things funny" but if you all want to animate for these generic "4chan" jokes (which you will all grow out of very soon and cringe when you think back to it), you're wasting your time as it has all been done to death. Rick roll, firin' mah lazah... really?

Sorry, I'm not great at summing things up shortly without sounding like a cock. I'm sure you all enjoyed creating this. I remember how much I used to enjoy it. So keep going, but everyone, just think before you do.

Wish I could turn the clock back sometimes and spend those long hours animating something really worth while... (lol dramatic)

FlashfireEX responds:

Thank you for trying to be positive with a somewhat negative comment, and for taking your time to write a long review. We honestly did enjoy making this and for us, this was funny. We do realize that not everyone is going to laugh at the same jokes or any of them for that matter but we mostly did this for fun (and maybe an award, which we managed to achieve). Most people didn't think the 4chan jokes were funny as you can clearly see by the many negative comments but there honestly weren't as many as people seem to be saying. Sure there's a few and the rickroll was a bit uncalled for but as for most of the humor, we thought it was funny so we kept it. We'll certainly try to be a bit funnier in the next Collab. If anything, the animation will be better. So thanks for reviewing. ;D

[Tarboy]

Jesus!

I don't think I've seen anything quite as professional as this on Newgrounds in a good while.

The animation was so smooth and the audio was just brilliant. The storyline itself was awesome, you managed to tell a lot in a small amount of time yet with such class!

I'm loving the high quality level of animations coming to Newgrounds recently but this is seriously up there among among the best. Witty, exciting and smooth as anything. Great work!

["We're Starfox!"]

Ah, memories...

This you have here is a very special animation! I think it was quite satisfying to see all the quotes used in a tasteful manner and to have something not based purely around the "DO A BARREL ROLL!" quote for a change!

Great use of the original sounds and voices all of which were in high quality and although the animation maybe isn't the best around, it was all well drawn and all the characters were easily identifiable and carried through the personalities we remember them by in the games!

Great 'toon here and well put together - could have sworn they were actually having conversations at times! Haha. Good length too and nice touch with the "Bonus Features" and the general look of the menu!

Really enjoyed this one, brought back some great memories! Cheers!

PuffballsUnited responds:

Glad you liked it. It would've been hard to make a movie using only "Do a barrel roll"

[Ryu's Revenge]

Haha, great!

Hahaha, for a second there I thought this was going to be something taking itself far too seriously, but I was glad to see it take a comic twist! I especially liked Ryu's tour around his "special" island, haha, so true, yet so perfect at the same time for the ultimate fighting arena in EVERY animation! Nice one! I hope to see the sequal up on the front page some time in the near future too! Haha :-D

Cheers!

[EW: Matt Sucks]

Brilliant!

Hahaha, that was grand, short sweet and to the point!

Definately one of the best I've seen out of you guys!

[GTA IV: Petty Crime Spree]

Hahaha!

I caught this one a few days back, and have to say I had a fine chuckle! After finishing old GTA IV yesterday, I had to come back and have another watch, purely because of that remix of Roman at the end. Class!

The general concept was just amusing, a fin take on the GTA series. Voice acting for Niko and Roman were most amusing also! Especially Roman. :D

Good job. But curse you at the same time, that remix was stuck in my head for 8 hours straight at work. :D Not that I mind though, as it is just brilliant. :D

Battosai810 responds:

Glad you liked it man! I'm almost done with the game (on like, the second to last mission)
Thanks for the props on my voice acting - wasn't sure how well it would fly!
Be sure to download that remix! Credits to my buddy xander1062!

[Awesome Video Games Ep30]

Episode 30!?

Jesus, that's quite an effort! Nice work reaching that many, fella's!

As for the episode, well it was funny for a while, got kind of repetitive, but good ol' Dad managed to pull out another amusing ending :D Good take on the Doctor Mario fun though!

Now, let's get to 40! :D

FarFromSubtle responds:

10 more comin' right up!

[RWD: 013]

Haha!

I've always found the voice acting in your movies brilliant. Always give me a good chuckle!

Excellent graphics and animation as always, just general random Yotam fun, haha, nice work!