Anonymous-Frog's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[THIRSTGF_ALT (FNF Creepypasta Animation)]

== Am I supposed to be terrified? ==
Score: 6 | Critic Review

I didn't really see a lot of animation in this 'animation'.
The vast majority of the visuals are just text, while THIRSTGF only ever opened her eyes (+2 frames, eyes only), raised her arms and went super creepy (+1 full frame), slashed at the viewer/Boyfriend (+4 frames, just the arm, they all look a tad rushed), then turned bright red and began to jumpscare (filter effects). The art of ol' THIRSTGF herself still looks alright, and I can't complain about the video game sound effects.

You claim in your bio that you are 'great at drawing, making music, animations, voice acting, and videos'. I don't think a person who genuinely is great at those things would need to say that they're great in their bio, they'd just say 'I draw, animate, voice act, make music and make videos'. It just inflates your ego.

Graphics: 7 | Sound: 7 | Movement: 3 | Creepiness: 6 |

[Why i HATE Foamy the squirrel Documentary]

== Foamy sucks, but so does this 'Documentary' ==
Score: 5
I agree with the overall message, but the 'documentary' is very poorly researched. I'm not here to defend ol' Jonathan Ian Mathers, just clear up some information that Jare got wrong.

- He's got a high pitched voice, talks really fast and is extremely annoying.
Fair point, but that is very debatable. I find it to be tolerable, but I understand where this is coming from. However, later on you make the point that squirrels shouldn't talk at all because real squirrels don't do that. This is a cartoon and that's artistic license.

- Has no redeeming qualities, always bullies Germaine for being horny + dumb, while he himself is horny
I don't know about Foamy himself being horny, but Germaine has whored herself out in one way or another in certain parts of the series, usually for monetary gain because she's too unstable to get a job or make money out of poetry.

- Animator is lazy / won't draw mouth, / uses clickbait
I agree. This is an easy time-saving technique done to rush animations out every 2 weeks. Other techniques include drawing only 1 or 2 backgrounds per episode, fewer keyframes, fewer in-betweens (ditching them outright in the modern episodes), and good ol' fashioned motion tweens. As if your 1-2 games/movies per day is any better.

- Every episode is the same and doesn't make any sense.
Each episode can be split into several categories, though they usually follow the same formula. Usually he's either by himself delivering a rant, or messing with Germaine, but he's also done some other stuff too.

During the original series (2003-2011) he may also read fanmail, phone up an Indian tech support worker, or complain about coffee at Starschmucks. as well as try to establish a 'Foamy Cult' sometimes. There was also one episode in 2003 where he just throws nuts at people to blow their heads off. There was some variety back then, but it's still a little bit repetitive during later seasons.
Nowadays in the current series (2017-present), Foamy makes a whole lot more rants and rarely interacts with Germaine, who now mostly just stays at home all the time.

- Doesn't have his own squirrel family or act like a real squirrel.
Foamy does interact with other squirrels sometimes, those being drug addict Pilz-E (blue eyes + glasses), Begley (purple hair), and Hatta (stereotypical black guy whom you mentioned in 4:30), usually Pilz-E. Hatta rarely makes appearances. They're more like a group of buddies you meet together at the pub (or the rehab if the pub ain't cuttin' it) rather than a traditional loving caring family you describe using a book cover, and they aren't always around each episode.

- Doesn't talk about or eat nuts
Foamy usually eats bagels with cream cheese, although he may order a pizza sometimes. Again, it's a cartoon and artistic license takes effect.

- Is horribly designed, uses the 'no mouth' point again, has green eyes when real squirrels don't.
A quick Google search for various squirrel pictures (IRL) show a lot of them have dark brown eyes, and also they don't have a large amount of white like humans have. But that doesn't matter, for this is a cartoon and that's called artistic license. I have my own character, a frog with stubble and belly hair, white arms, and two thirds the height of a human, yet real frogs aren't that big or hairy. Again, it's a cartoon, doesn't need to be super realistic.

- None of the characters' backstories are explained.
On illwillpress.com, click the bottom bar 'Best Viewed in 2005' to view the old site layout, then click 'Characters', or just click the link I've provided. There's information about every single character that's appeared in Foamy/Neurotically Yours and some of J.i.M's other series.

https://illwillpress.com/characters.html

- Illwillpress is/was a racist in the earlier episodes and squirrels shouldn't be African-American.
The Hatta' is the 'black stereotype' squirrel. His 'afro' is on his tail. Two thirds down his playlist "Neurotically Yours Original SE 1-3" you can find two episodes where he's the main focus.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/768801
He has barely made an appearance in later episodes and may possibly be phased out entirely, to my knowledge. Artistic license!

- Nobody asks 'Why is it a terrible show on Newgrounds?'
They have, even back in the early 2000s when it first started to become a hit. If you search 'Foamy' on the BBS, you will find various threads and users calling Foamy shit and providing some convincing reasons for it.

In fact, there was a group called the UCFD, or the Underground Coalition for Foamy's Demise, that made anti-Foamy parodies. Here is a collab they did in 2006 celebrating one of his movies being blammed.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/305822

He's most recently got into some hot water when he reuploaded his old episodes back onto Newgrounds after deleting them in 2016, allowing him to win Daily awards and mess with the charts. Since then he has stopped reuploading as frequently (3 every week instead), and started opting out of awards (which was added in 2021). Although he still wins Daily awards with new episodes, he hasn't been a big deal for present day Newgrounds.

Hopefully that clears everything up!

Graphics: 2 | Sound: 4 | Research: 3 | Original Assets: 0 | Hypocrisy: 5 | Spam-O-Meter levels: 8

[nZ...]

== This is the real thing this time ==
Score: 8 | Critic Review
This is the longest episode in the alphabet series, sitting at over 3 minutes long, making this the episode with the highest production value, and the best one in my eyes.

It is a prequel to episodes A-Y, and explains the reason why the main antagonist acted the way he did.
To sum things up, when they're all young (ie. lowercase), L and O bullied N, so he retaliated by making L break wind using A, R, and T. This escalated quickly, he gets beaten up and is exiled and now lives in a cave. The other letters also break his teeth, so that's why they're so sharp.

Like with the other twenty-six installments (this also counts the low-quality 'Z' posted a week earlier), it always introduces a new letter. This time, Z is introduced, and all the major events in this series take place atop his massive head.

The series also has letters combining together to create various words, such as 'coward', starting with G and 'cab', and getting slightly more advanced as more letters enter the picture and the series evolves over time.

Other than that, it does uses some cliches here and there, and it's also not overly complex. I was also not really impressed about the 'white void' background that was used throughout. Only question remaining is 'What's ol' Mike Salcedo gonna do next?'

PS. You probably didn't notice, but in this review, I did not use the sixth English alphabet letter even once. Not even in the review categories.
Animation: 9 | Sound: 9 | Storytelling: 8 | Style: 10 | Letters: 26 | Backgrounds: 5

[WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR NECTAR, But I Actually Animated it]

== Another one?? ==
Score: 5 | Critic Review
It's already been about 1 month since that all caps 'NECTAR' meme hit its peak, and I've seen other animators recreate this meme before, so, you're a little bit late to the party.

I'd also like to point out that there's been some community backlash when one of the more 'viral' animators jumped onto this trend and submitted three versions of the same meme to Newgrounds in a row and won Daily awards from P-Bot, hence why the scores of every other version got downvoted to around 3 stars or less. Even I took a hit when I spent about 1 day making my own version.

Looking past that, the animation itself is still decent, albeit some shortcuts taken, such as stretching frames (notably Squidward's mouth), little to no in-betweening, some inconsistent outlines, and colour bleeding out of Squidward's neck. Animating to a 5 second meme is already quicker and easier than animating to 50 seconds, because.. math, so it shouldn't be hard to take the time to give this movie a little bit more polish, although I'd recommend longer movies.

Graphics: 6 | Sound: 5 | Originality: 0 | Length: 1 | Style: 7 | Humor: 5

[Puru Puru Puruaether]

== Get your baseball bats ready! cuz you're goin' to Horny Jail ==

Score: 6 | Critic Review

I'm surprised there weren't any other reviews until 30 minutes before I submitted mine, despite being out for well over a day, and amassing a total of 1.3K views and 167 votes.

Let's analyze what's going on here. We have a nice hot blue-haired anime chick in some sort of maid outfit holding some dish, next to an ass shot (same animation) exposing her panties. The final 4 seconds instead has another girl dress her up in a pink dress to take photos and is less horny and more fast-paced and meme-ish, if I have to describe it.

She almost looks like cel-shaded 3D, but what I think is being done is some slightly convincing 2D rigging. The way that the folds of that skirt distorts as it accelerates upwards away from the ass is a dead giveaway.

Either way, still a great gift to give to the guy who has R34'd everything. I'm sure he'll appreciate it!

Graphics: 8 | Sound: 9 | Length: 3 | Horny bait: 7 | Style: 9 | Humor: 7

RE: That’s an irrelevant question.

lewdishsnail responds:

Do you have autism?

RE: Thank you for not taking the joke badly. I also just don't like these kinds of reviews because I'm not a fan of the "horny jail" jokes. It's just annoying. I am welcome to actual critiques, I'll just ignore the intro.

[JUMALAUTA]

== SOMEONE SET US UP THE DRINK AND DRIVE ==
Score: 9 | Critic Review.

This is an incredibly surreal cartoon with a kickass soundtrack and the perfect mix of gore, trippiness, and eyeballs, ie. not to everyone's tastes, but if you're into this sort of shit, you're in luck! A ton of work has definitely went into drawing all that.

Although there was some looping, and the movement doesn't really seem to follow any specific set of rules (though that could be its own thing), there were a lot of scenes that use movements animated on ones via frame by frame. Some examples include, but are not limited to:

- Whenever Rape moves, he always exaggerates in a different way, such as behaving like slime as he slides out his car or into the alcohol store, his face coming on when inside said store, and his leg wiggles when he steps on a cat and his face exits his skull to look at the bus timetable

- 0:33: The smoke that comes out of Rape's car and the tires on the subsequent scene
- 0:41: His hand as the beer bottle rotates, and the froth that comes out when he slices it open with a knife.
- 1:07: The blood coming out of granny's head as she hits a rock, although her brain is surprisingly smooth.
- 1:53: The bus 'walking' with its wheels, though that could be clipped by 2 seconds.

Some things to mind is that there's a few bits of text that aren't in English, though captions are provided and there's no 'voiced' dialogue. Also 'Rape' isn't exactly the most common or acceptable names out there.
Either way, incredible job!

Graphics: 10 | Sound: 10 | Seriousness: 3 | Violence: 10 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9

Catoblepas responds:

Thanks for the thorough review. Yeah I like to over-animate the little details sometimes.

[The Powerpuff Girls (real)]

== CHEMICAL ==
Score: 8 | Critic Review

This is a very good addition to the Toonami Collab. The joke here is that rather than creating three Powerpuff Girls, Professor Utonium accidentally turns himself into a Powerpuff Boy.

It's supposed to mimic the style of the original PPG show, but it does end up looking very rough in a few spots, some of them intentional to give the line wiggle effect, and some where it's not needed (such as static backgrounds). This ends with some explosion + car crash + whatever stock footage used in a meme-ish way, which I have to reduce points for.

In addition, Corey did a good impression of the character and it's always nice to let someone else help you out with some VFX (I couldn't figure out which effects Extream ended up doing).

RE: RGP: If the Sydney Morning Herald already reported on it, then it ain't spoilers pal!
RE: Corey: No problem dude!
Graphics: 9 | Sound: 9 | Accuracy to Show: 9 | Colours: 10 | Style: 10 | Writing: 7

VoicesByCorey responds:

Appreciate the compliment AF!

[Go Kitty Go! - Animated Music Video]

== Not fully compatible via Ruffle ==
Score: 9 | Critic Review

Nice to see a brand new Flash movie hit the charts today, in roughly a similar style as 12 years ago. However, it does use various filters not compatible with Ruffle. This affects the text's drop shadows, the kitty's left arm+fist when it rises up and down and when it claps at the end) and also the scrolling background when it's blue (the default colour is pink).

Other than that, animation is very clean, although with very minimal frame redraws. Various effects are done via motion tweens, which isn't uncommon during Flash's heyday.

On another note, I tend to use the desktop Newgrounds Player to run Flash content nowadays, so that's always an option.

Graphics: 9 | Sound: 8 | Recycling: 9 | Ruffle Compatibility: 7 | Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9

[Monkey Wrench - The Ghost Egg]

== Where's my pizza? ==
Score: 10 | Critic Review

If I were to give this a review, it would be better to put this into comparison with actual animated TV shows like Adult Swim's Rick and Morty or Smiling Friends, to name a few, rather than any individual animators on the web who can only dream of having the budget and talent to create full episodes with professional quality animation, writing, storytelling, voice acting, music, etc. over the course of many many months.
The closest comparison I could find on the internet for free in terms of scope and professionalism would have to be Helluva Boss, Satina, Ollie and Scoops (which Zeurel also helped animate), Harry Partridge's Starbarians, or the later Spooky Month installments from Sr Pelo (which progressively get bigger and pushed beyond Halloween every year)

The only problems I found with this, problems that can affect both independent and professional creations like this one, are a few audio issues, notably the music being too quiet in the big fight scene in the end, and also Shrike (the one who looks like Earthworm Jim) being too generic of a Spanish stereotype. (sort by score and jump to the last pages)
Hopefully these will be ironed out in future installments. if or when they come out.

I'm also going to note that the two main protagonists bear a great resemblance to the characters in the 2012 short 'Lard Ass', also created by Zeurel.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/597197

Graphics: 10 | Sound: 8 | Overall Premise: 10 | Effort: 10 Style: 10 | Entertainment: 9