Anonymous-Frog's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[gorbido vs woke mob]

== this short enough?? ==
Score: 8 | Short Review

judging from first-hand experience, this looks very tame.

animation: 7 | audio: 8 | cringe: 8 | humor (in general): 7 | humor (ironic): 10

migmoog responds:

Sorry anonymous frog we had too many pronouns and were pandering and virtue signalling

[A Shiny Minecraft tale]

NOTE: This is a very rare case of a movie with medals. To get them, you must click on 9 diamond items scattered around the Flash version of the movie.

To unlock the medals, add "?emulate=flash" to the end to open Ruffle. It should work completely fine.

Collecting both the axe and sword unlocks "Battle Ready", the pickaxe and shovel unlocks "Mining Tools', the helmet and chestplate unlocks "Suit up", and 3 diamonds unlock "DiamondHunter extrordinare"

How to unlock:
- Helmet: In a cave as the camera pans down. This can be a bit difficult to miss. To make it easier, try right clicking the flash and click 'Play' to pause the movie.

- Shovel: In the player's hotbar in the very first scene.

- Diamond #1. Behind the player and partially obstructed by the explosion. The one that falls
into the lava can't be clicked

- Axe: Held by a zombie underneath the lapis

- Diamond #2. Behind a tree on the left when the player weightlifts.

- Sword: In front of the tree on the left in the creeper punching

- Pickaxe: Right to the player when fully geared in the cave

- Chestplate: In the player's inventory, right to the multiple stacks of 'Stoan'

- Diamond #3. Under a skeleton's foot right in the FFUUUUUU scene

Hope that helps!

[Hello Hagrid!]

== This ain't Shorts ==
Score: 5 = Critic Review

This 8 second has some fairly decent animation. It's in colour, it has some interesting background work, it's mildly amusing seeing Hagrid sent flying by Harry's spells, but that's about it.

Big elephant in the room: Quantity over quality. You've already posted 5-6 cartoons under 30 seconds (sometimes under 15 seconds) in the past 2 months. Pace yourself. It's not uncommon for a NG creator to go months without a single upload

Graphics: 8 | Sound: 6 | Length: 3 | Spam Threshold: 2 | Style: 9 | Humor: 5

Gray responds:

Just looked at this again. Ye. Honestly you have a point. I do need to pace myself tbf

[Pokémon Animation : Whitney's Motivation]

== Ow my head hurts ==
Score: 7 | Critic Review

Full color, fully shaded animation that looks very nice. A little bit lewd, but still.

When I first reviewed your stuff, you barely used any audio, but now, you use enough that it doesn't break the immersion. Well, MoistCr1tiKaL audio clips aside, it's still a massive improvement.

However, I will take offense at the scene where Whitney takes off her shirt (as seen in the thumbnail), Not because I and the rest of the reviewers didn't get to see boobies, but because you used a 30 second clip from Devil May Cry with copyrighted music, specifically the track "Bury the Light"
https://open.spotify.com/album/2RMI7NYevycT0lCCyQMLKT
© CAPCOM CO., LTD. 2020 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

On YouTube, you could sort of get away with it, but Newgrounds is a small independent platform that can't afford to take a lawsuit from Capcom, so they enforce strict rules regarding music usage. So here at least, you might have to use something else in your bait and switch. Or just release it uncensored.

Graphics: 10 | Sound: 7 | Porn: VERGIL | Style: 9 | Humor: CHARLIE

[Slap animation.]

Can't find an icon? Use a screenshot from the animation itself!

GachaD responds:

Okay, that's actually a good idea. How come didn't I think of it?!

[FFFFFF-F: Additional F]

== Another F ==
Score: 10^5 | Clock Review

Just as good as the last year's FFFFFF. Keep them going. Or don't. Clock Day movies take a shitload of work and you REALLY don't want to do that. That's why I do Clock games. A musical may works fine too.

Clocks: 10 | Mayhem: 10 | Obscure and/or Retro Video Game References: 10 |
Style: 10 | Hint of spam: 10 | Writing: 10

[Vegeta and Caulifla: Vegeta need to play with it.]

== Meh ==

Very rigid and barely animated (unless you count the arms). The worst offender has to be when Caulifla points at her boobs at 0:20. It looks like his arms have shrunk. The voices are not too bad.

Très rigide et à peine animé (sauf si vous comptez les bras). Le pire délinquant devrait être lorsque Caulifla pointe ses seins à 0:20. On dirait que ses bras ont rétréci. Les voix ne sont pas trop mauvaises.

Graphics: 4 | Sound: 7 | Style: 6 | Originality: 3

[Castle Crashers OVA-The Necromancer's Revenge-{VHSAnime}-(sub)]

== Impressive work, but still overall unpolished ==
Score: 9 | Critic Review

This is a 12-minute-long Castle Crashers video in the style of an old anime VHS. It stars 9 of the many playable knights as the protagonists and the Necromancer as the sole antagonist.
The voices are all in Japanese, but English subtitles are provided. Some of the music in this animation comes from the original game, but it also uses music from other anime shows, which might be very iffy copyright-wise.

The fact that you animated an entire 12-minute story in only 2 weeks would've been impressive by itself, however, I can tell that it would've been very quick to animate.

1. Lip-syncing is rarely used. Anime tends to use fewer mouth frames compared to western animation. Sort of justified as the knights all wear helmets covering their faces.

2. Backgrounds are very simple. Even the stars in the 'flying circle' scene (5:41) only cycle between 2-3 frames and looks extremely unpolished.

3. The characters have simplistic proportions and lack shading, which would cut down on animation time by an astronomical amount. They also use very few keyframes (for example, a lot of non-action scenes use only 1 keyframe and only animate the eyes)

Graphics: 7 | Sound: 9 | Cliche Anime Tropes: 8 | Length: 10 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9

KokoroHatsaru responds:

I will keep it in mind, tnx for da advice fren, also, im glad u liked it ^^

[Foamy Got Blammed Collab]

== UCFD | Looking back 16 years after its initial creation ==
Score: 8 | Retrospective Review

This collab is themed around the Illegal Immigrant Special, a Foamy episode, getting deleted from Newgrounds. It lasted just over 2 days on the Portal.
Obituary link: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/rip/304158

Although I couldn't find a copy on the Wayback Machine and see the movie for myself, the collab suggests it was just a single screen with audio slapped on top and it was rumored to be an unofficial entry submitted by users who hacked illwillpress's account.

Many believe that the submission was BLAMMED, or IWP requested it to be deleted himself fearing another Turd of the Week award (which he had won at least 2 of).
When researching this topic, I discovered a BBS post where a regular called Ozcar said that he emailed Tom to get it taken down because it was racist towards Mexicans and violated NG's rules on hate speech.
https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/530457#bbspost9631245_post_text

This isn't the first time IWP submitted a single screen audio only flash. He had done something similar with the 2005 flash "Hurricane Report" or "Hurricane Special", which was made in light of Hurricane Katrina and complaining about the people taking advantage of the situation.
This one survived until 2016, when IWP deleted the rest of his catalogue.
If you still want to see it and don't want to wait for IWP to repost in HD, go to this Wayback Machine link, right click and 'Inspect', search 'ungrounded.net' for a SWF that says 'hurricanespecial', and then play it Ruffle or other compatible Flash Players.
http://web.archive.org/web/20051001032105/http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/262703

As for the collab, 20 animators submitted parts (though only 4 accounts are credited as of writing) and since the special was removed on April 2nd and this collab was released April 7th, they only had five days. Each part retells that story in a unique way and I will be individually reviewing each one (and rating from 0 to 10). This is a long ride.

Alex:
Foamy is jumping on the road when a Hot Topic truck runs him over. Here, Foamy uses a poorly made motion tween rig, and some really crusty looking tree bitmaps. Blood animates very slowly.
Overall Score: 5

TruffleClock:
Foamy posts the flash to the Portal and gets blams, while RenegadeClock finishes the job.
Mostly tweens, but the assets look decent (this is totally normal for Clock Crew movies)
Overall Score: 7

FUN FACT: As of 2022, ucfd.net, which used to host an anti-Foamy forum, now leads to RenegadeClock's submission 'Renegade's Rant', a flash movie from late 2003 bashing Foamy for becoming 'King of the Portal' (in short, win the most Daily awards in a single month)
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/140978

Luksy:
This is based on the Foamy's Rant episodes, where there's an image of a city affected by "Trace Bitmap" using Flash, while Foamy's head tweens around. Foamy doesn't talk, but does get headshot by an offscreen sniper when he attempts to talk. Just as much effort as the real Foamy's Rant, although J.i.M keeps those going for 3 minutes or longer, while this is 17 seconds.
Overall Score: 5

RTIL (usually credited as xtil in shitpost entries like this one):
Rtil has also parodied Foamy in two other movies, Rest in Peace IWP (2005), where IWP's 'death' was fabricated as a joke, and The Nail (2007), where Foamy "gets sent on an epic journey to his final destiny.". This one has Foamy burning in hell alongside 'zombified' flash submissions.
Rtil appears to have the best art in this collab due to being one of the more talented contributors. He would later go on to work for Studio Yotta and do art for Skullgirls.
Overall Score: 10

AltF4:
DEAR FOAMY: Foamy shoots himself in the mouth and dies along with the text 'DO IT', indicating Foamy should 'commit sudoku'. Graphics are nice, but the audio cuts off after he shoots.

I'm certain that this was made by 'altffour', aka the guy who made the massive hit music video 'The Ultimate Showdown' with Lemon Demon's song of the same name,
Overall Score: 8

DavidMoore0:
Foamy checks his fanmail, reads it, then explodes. Barely anything animated except Foamy's eyes and the explosion is just a red screen. Still fairly funny.
Overall Score: 5

Cyberen:
Illwillpress himself checks Newgrounds only to find his movie was blammed. He gets mad and emails Wade. IWP is depicted as an ugly looking man with purple hair.
Overall Score: 7

guitarbrdaroun:
IWP goes completely insane over his movie's removal, and uses a hammer. Graphics are awful and backgrounds are poorly parallaxed!
Overall Score: 1

CabritoGoat:
Foamy is having anal with a naked torso in front of the movie's Obituary page and behind a flashing colour filter, clown faces, and the word 'FUCK'.
Awful visuals and not really very appropriate for children, but it's worth a cheap laugh.
Overall Score: 2

James Packard Inc / James Prankard Inc
IWP submits the movie, then a screen with him with 'FAILURE' bleeding out of his wrist and a background that parodies the special, with 'Illwillpress Live from New York'. Some more blood tweens down revealing the text 'JAMESPRANKARDINC HATES ILLWILLPRESS'.
Not very well-made,
Overall Score: 4

f00d (This one is placed right above Foamy's head in its own box.)
A Mexican guy is offended by the SPecial and blams it. In the movie, Foamy hates Mexicans and calls them 'burrito munchers', while the Mexican himself munches on a burrito after the movie gets blammed.
Good art, great interpretation, and I understand why this was named 'personal favourite'
Overall Score: 10

Ludy / EviLudy
What appears to be Ludy's OC dances to 'Illwillpress got blammed'. Decent art + animation + FX, but nothing to write home about in terms of the overall premise and the given theme.
Overall Score: 7

BigArmyBug / Bug (deleted)
Foamy is in Hell and runs away. Good art, good tweens, good repeating background.
Overall Score: 9

G G / Galloglasses:
Foamy gets deported to Mexico by an Italian-sounding guy. Audio is shit, but thankfully there's captions on top. Backgrounds are likely found on Google and 'Mexico' has two pasted together. It's a little cringe, just a little, but it's got some decent writing and length.
Overall Score: 7

Cookie Eater:
47 seconds later a guy celebrates for less than a second. Couldn't understand this one. Is he IWP? Or a hater?
Overall Score: 5

ReyaIsTheSlayer:
Red haired guy shoots Illwillpress right after his movie is deleted. That's the BLAM.
Overall Score: 5

Zielak:
Foamy's movie is reported, despite his best efforts. Then it's a whistle party with the text
DIE FOAMY!'. This one's about the movie getting reported rather than blammed, so good on Zielak for going against the norm.
Overall Score: 6

FatBadger:
Fat Badger whacks Foamy with his arm, then Germaine while ParagonX9 music plays in the background. FatBadger tends to make some very good spam, although it's spam nonetheless. But then again, everyone had less than 5 days to make parts and even he admits in a review that he rushed it.
Overall Score: 8

PowerRangerYELLOW
IWP (voiced by Speakonia) reporting live from mom's basement. The porn and Cracker Jacks addict submits another 'still-frame masterpiece'. And he's dead, the rumors (from 2005) are true.
Like the original special, it's also a 'still-frame masterpiece'. This one's not too well-drawn, but gets the job done.
Overall Score: 3

Doctor_Primate (secret)
This is a secret part I never knew existed when I first saw this collab. To access this, right click and select 'Forward' on PowerRangerYELLOW's part.

Foamy has a Newgrounds poster, a KKK poster, and a Foamy poster saying 'Got Angst'. He is heartbroken that his movie is blammed. Computer turns on the 'You Get NOTHING, You lose, Good day sir!' audio plays. This is an iconic line from Willy Wonka

Graphics and colours are utter crap and the shadows are solid black (Foamy's faces towards the light bulb instead of away from it). I see why this was hidden.
Overall Score: 0

THE END: Thank you for reading this far! This took hours to write up, which is very long for a review like this.

Best Parts: f00d, Rtil, TruffleClock,
Worst Parts: guitarbrdaroun, CabritoGoat, Doctor_Primate,
Popular Contributors: Rtil, AltF4, FatBadger.
Graphics: 7 | Sound: 7 | Foamy Hate: 10 | Writing: 6 | Effort: 9 | Humor: 8