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[Duckyween]

I love Ducky!

I first saw Christmas Quackers. That was great. I'm finding that I love these videos, the voice is so hilarious and the eastereggs are always a treat. :)

[He stole my Lollipop!]

Hah

That was funny. The last line was just brilliant. I think what made it was the voices, especially how they say "Fumb" instead of "Thumb." Also, the mean man with a stolen Lollipop looks like the Nostalgia Critic. Any relation?

Merol responds:

I don't know, it sounds like "thumb" to me.
I did notice it looks like the Nostalgia critic, but it wasn't intentional.

[Masters of Doom!]

That was awesome!

I completely forgot about this. I loved it back when it came out, but I can definitely appreciate it more now that I've read the book; at least when it comes to just how perfect you captured their personalities and used them to make great caricatures. I could rag on you for being inconsistent with the timeline, but I'd just be a jackass. Afterall it is just a cartoon.

My only real problem is that the voice acting sometimes had a grainy quality, both in the actual recording and the actor though for the most part the acting was fairly decent.

I really wish there was a sequel though. If you ever dust the concept of making this a series again, you'll have at least one guy anticipating it.

[Africa Dudes]

Genius.

That was insane genius. What was the SCRIPT for this like? WORDS.

I.
LOVE.
WORDS.

Words are awesome. Without words we couldn't express ourselves and entertain others, we couldn't annoy the shit out of them either. Without words we'd all be a bunch of moronic monkeys that could only communicate with the other end of a stick. We need words, and this is a testament to the wonder of WORDS. Go and check out a dictionary today, and learn about words. "Africa Dudes" is also a good source for words. Your teachers will love it.

[B.Y.E.]

Not bad for what it is.

I was pleasantly surprised with this. I'm normally not really a fan of "Random pointless violence for a few minutes" movies but this one was O.K. It was somewhat free of the monotony of a lot of the other ones like it. The animation was also really impressive. I normally mention graphics after mentioning the animation, but there really isn't any point in criticizing the graphics of a flash with stick-men in it.

I usually try to give a bit more of an in depth review these days, but it's really hard to comment on a flash like this since it pretty much just is what it is. I liked it due to the fluent and kinetic animation and because a couple of them were actually pretty funny. In fact I was originally going to vote 3 until I saw the "Interpretive Dance" execution, and for that, you get a 4. That almost made my day.

The hanging and acid ones were also awesome. Quite clever, actually. In fact that's another thing I liked is that some of them were thinking outside of the box instead of just doing them in the most obvious way possible.

Not half bad!
Arivaderci
-The Croutonian

[LARRY episode 2]

Fan flipping tastic

This was awesome! Well worth the wait. The animation is terrific and it seems you've improved a fair amount from the first episode, which looked great, but this one felt smoother. The only kink in the animation that I really noticed was that in a couple scenes the backgrounds felt flat, especially in comparison with some of the others you've used; but this wasn't a common problem.

Obviously it's the humour where this shines. Episode 1 and 1.5 were both very funny (1.5 struck a chord with me seeing as I lived in Utah for a looong time) but this was more than funny; this was downright hilarious. I have a thing for dark humour and it is nice to see dark humour executed so well and with a fantasy theme as well.

Dark humour seems to be hard for people to succeed in because some people make it too soft and others make it a bit *too* sadistic. It can also be said it usually seems to have a suitably darker genre (I.E. Horror or suspense thriller) that it latches on to or satirizes than a swords and sorcery fantasy adventure, so you get points for having a unique combo as well. You did it right and it's been a long time since I've laughed this hard, and my evening is certainly a lot nicer now.

So all in all this was great. It looked great, sounded great, and was funny as hell. I can tell that you put a lot of effort into this and practically none of the effort was wasted. My wife enjoyed it too. I'm adding this to my favourites and I look forward to Episode 3.

-Kadath & Chie (TeamCroutons)

Jazza responds:

Thanks so much! Ep 1.5 was really easy for me to do, I know all the cliches since I AM a Mormon and like laughing at myself lol.

As for the dark humor, is it disturbing that it comes so naturally? Lol. Gore just does not gross me out and the most strange violent things I find funny. In animated form, not in video or anything, thats a different level of sick.

Anyhow thanks so much for the awesome review!!!

[Paging Dr. Seuss]

How delightful and charming!

I loved this movie. Love, love loved it.

Otherwise this was a perfect example of dark humour done right. The animation and style was really good and the rhyming was fantastic. We need to see more horrors from the vault of Dr. Seuss.

CatFat responds:

Glad you liked it, thank you!