plucas's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Primal War 05]

Great Flash

This was really a great piece, I enjoyed it immensely, great action. I loved how you were able to give the characters some personality and style even though they didn't speak.

My only (minor) complaint is with a story point--its very unlikely two guys with bows and arrows could beat two guys with automatic weapons, especially out in the open like that. Not impossible, but still...

Otherwise, great job. Looking forward to more.

[FF7 Viva la revolution]

Naked Plagiarism

Sorry, but unless you obtained permission from Scott Ramsoomair directly to do this flash, you are guilty of copyright violation and plagiarism. As copyright law stands, only the holder of the copyrighted material--Ramsoomair in this case--can create or give permission for derivative works based on his previous cartoons. It might have been different if you just "borrowed" a gag or two, but you followed the orginal cartoon panel for panel, dialog for dialog. Ramsoomair if he so chose could not only legally have this taken down from wherever you posted it, but could also bring legal action against you.

And it was only a so-so flash to boot.

[(2006) Klay Kamping!]

That's the Mother Nature. Take it in.

The bit with the tree and the rock being mother nature gave me the giggles. Hilarious stuff. I love your sublime, oddball sense of humor. Keep it up!

[Peach Moon]

Not bad

moral of the story: beware of planetary satellites made of anthropomorphic fruit.

Matt-Merrill responds:

Bingo!

[serious bob]

good but not great

I really applaud your effort and ambition here. Obviously a lot of work went into this, and the basic story was good for a 6 minute cartoon. The scenes as conceived were well done from a storytelling perspective. But there were two basic things that kept me from giving you a higher score:

1. Animators really need to learn at least the basics of drawing before they start animating. There's a difference between a simplistic and/or cartoony style and an amateurish one. I'm afraid this flash is too obvious the latter. Perspective was especially lacking and really distracted from everything else going on.

2. There were some serious lapses in logic as well. Why was he doing the CPR compressions on her belly over her bullet wound? In the store, once he had a gun in his hand, why would he bother with martial arts stuff? And chainsaws aren't light sabers; there's no way that amputation would be that clean and easy.