CroutonsOfDeath's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dave's Pirate Day Movie?]

Yay! Bizzarro Tom!

I haven't seen a Bizzarro Tom flash in awhile! Welcome back! The movie was.. ehh... well, whatever, you are back! :D

When do we get more movies from Krapton though? What has Bizarro Tom been up to? Is there a Bizzarro Kadath (That's me name)? What was he like? Did he deserve to die on Krapton?

poprock responds:

Perhaps movie make more sense if BiZZaRo explain.

Friend poptart Dave in hospital. BiZZaro go poptart house to feed cats. Poptart say "BiZZar0 plz upload poptart flash." BiZZaRo say "What one?" Poptart call BizzaR0 retarded. So BiZzar0 purposely fuck poptarts flash up. hahehahehahe.

More Krapturdian flash coming soon. BiZZaro away most of Earth sumMer.

Bizzaro Kadath, eh? BTF will have get back on that one...

[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!

[Billy Mays The Birth]

A mixed bag but nonetheless entertaining

This was very bizarre and abstract and on a site like NewGrounds that is saying a lot. I think on the whole it was a mixed bag. Some of it was absolutely hysterical, some of it was poor.

Most of the background art was flat and didn't give much depth, but some of it was terrific. The shots in the Maternity ward were good but the quality of that aspect went downhill fast. The animation was decent even if the graphics were a little sketchy and rough at times, but at least everything looked good in motion. Strangely enough some of the most impressive bits of animation came from his Beard, very smooth transitioning there.

I will admit that the Swedish narrator got on my nerves. I chuckled at the silly voice at first but I still hoped it would be a throw away gag and having him narrate the whole flash eventually became grating. I can't say that his acting was bad, he served the tone decently and his dialogue was fine, but his accent sure was bad. Despite some static the voice acting was decent especially with Billy. I think that he should have had more actual dialogue because the impersonation actually wasn't bad at all and the bit at the beginning where he was beating the Doctor with his umbilical cord was made all the funnier by having such a good voice over.

If I had to pick the absolute nadir of the short though it would be the Dio impersonation. No offense but that was awful. I could tell the actor was trying but there was so much noise in the mic and lets not forget that it was terribly off key and I had to watch the scene multiple times to get the rewritten lyrics. Thanks for slipping in a Heavy Metal reference though. :P

I was originally going to give this a vote of 3, but it got a 4 for one reason: Songs from the Wood. Sweet Jesus that is one of my all time favourite songs and even if it was only a snippet any flash that includes it immediately gets bonus points.

The story and direction was good though. In your description you mentioned you wanted to tell a tall tale and even if it dribbled away at the end with the awful Dio segment you did a fairly good job. Some jokes felt forced but others, as strange as they were, were hilarious. I mentioned that I loved the umbilical cord beating and I also loved the bits with his beard and I had a chuckle when I saw his beard carrying him during the running away scene.

This flash isn't perfect; it was a mixed bag but for the most part I enjoyed it. I think with a bit more focus, a less grating accent on the narrator, and a better Dio impersonator this could've been a lot better. Regardless it was still a fun short.

thejuiceizloose responds:

Yea, I am a big Jethro Tull fan, so that song had to be in there for that scene. Thanks for the indepth analysis. You've given us quite a bit to look at for the next Mays cartoon. The subsequent episodes won't focus quite so much on narration, as this one did. We were trying to provide a setting and background story that was easier to do with a narrator, so now that characters and motives are established, we can rely more on character interaction to carry the story. I do agree with much of what you said, especially the Dio scene. We were pressed for time and someone who could pull off a great Dio impression, and obviously were limited in that regard. I still stand by my voice actors however, and I feel like more time and better equipment will make all the world of difference. And I have to agree with my animation. There are many things I am happy about, but even more there are things that I know I can do better on. When working on a flash that is 9 minute long, it seems likely to get sloppy from time to time, so we are working on slimming up the length on the next one. Thanks for the review.

[Geoweasel Episode 19]

A few chuckles

I haven't watched any of the other episodes, so I didn't really have a feel for the characters or continuity (Assuming there is one..), and there were a few bits I didn't really understand; but overall, I did have a few chuckles. I might go back and watch the others sometime.

Geoweasel responds:

There's generally no continuity in the series. I try to make each episode separate enough from the others so that any one can be a jumping-on point, but some stand alone better than others. If you watch the rest, I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for an honest review!

[Spider Powers 6]

I actually agree with Spazkid.

I liked the other ones and it disappoints me that you are just going through a butchered meme here. There are so many other, much more creative things than a Pedobear that the spider could have turned him into. I will disagree with Spazkid regarding memes never being funny, they are funny to read about on ED and some memes can be funny if used sparingly; but this is a case of using it for forced laughs.

just2pale responds:

lol so you're upset that I didn't use a character you liked? lol ok I will keep that in mind for the next one.

[The Clown Downstairs]

How very Burroughs of you

I'm not sure what to really say, as my summary title suggests I found this to be very William S. Burroughs and its kinda hard to explain some of his more obscure work. What I can say, I freakin' loved it. For your first flash, the animation is EXTREMELY impressive, I would find it hard to believe that you haven't had experience animating in other fields because this is higher quality detail than most artists.

Very creepy and entertaining, none the less

JohnDavidHeptinstall responds:

Thanks very much, I like Burroughs work! - glad you were entertained

[Don't Sleep, Robby!]

I love these guys

I love these guys. Been following you for awhile after TWHYlight and Half-Beard. You guys are pretty funny. I love the commentary as well, being partially deaf subtitles really help me so I don't have to blow my good ear out just to hear what everyone is saying, so its nice that I also get the treat of your commentary. However, the BRACKETMAN DOES NOT CONTROL ME!

Bracketman! I have escaped your mighty power. Although I will agree, at least dial up did sound cool. XP Keep up the good work, mates.

Bobert-Rob responds:

Bracketman will get you, all in good time... ah hahaha...
Thanks for watching!

[Poor Purple Playdo]

Good start

Good start. Stop motion is something that requires a lot of talent, and for a new comer you show that you have talent. I'll admit, the movie itself was "Meh," although the beginning was fun when he was knitting himself back together, from then on though it kinda lacked any real structure.

For a starter at stop motion, its good you avoided "Gapping," something that plagues beginner stop motion animators. Gapping is when your transitions from frame to frame aren't exactly smooth, due to poor planning or a missing frame. You didn't really have any gapping problems, save for a somewhat discoloured transition from the stop motion bits to the real time bits with your hand.

Another thing I should praise is the quality of the video, stopmotion videos are large (Hell, your flash is nearly 9 megs and its fairly short) and so they often have to be down scaled and fitted with LOTS of pixels, which s the only reason I haven't posted my own stop motion vids, I'm a snob about pixels. This was crystal clear, and although its probably going to be hard to avoid pixels in longer or more ambitious future projects, getting good quality the first go round is good. Didn't like the watermark though, but I'm gunna assume that you were using a trial and I can understand if you can't afford whatever program it was.

You should work a little more on the "Writing," perse as well as the editing cuts (Title screents, etc.) because save for the beginning bit, it wasn't that good substance wise, but it still isn't a bad start. Keep practicing and you'll get where you want to, you've already got a good start in the stop motion animation department. Just watch out for Carpal Tunnel, sometimes extra detail just isn't worth it... One of my stop motion videos took a good 14 months and I was going for detail, and detailing the minitures gave me a good case of Carpal... owch.

ReCessA805 responds:

i actually had to cut it down quiet a bit, maybe 2mb or so, to get it on to this site. i will defintly work on the script/plot on my next project.
wow 14 months is quiet a bit!
Thank u 4 the input. =]

[Alien]

What an important message.

Yes, this message is oh so true. Snow should also stop happening in January. Fuck you Snow, fuck you. *shakes fist*

I love you guys though xP Keep on bringing us awesomeness from Krapton BiZZaRo Tom :P

poprock responds:

Thanks, mate. I'll send the alien down to kill some of them Mormons for ya.

[Bizzaro Tom: Episode 1]

Damn..

I think the Kraptonian version is better. It was worthy of an Oscar! The only problem was that you didn't hire Doug Jones to play Godzilla. Seriously, ALWAYS hire Doug Jones to play your monster. Did they have BiZZaRo oscars on Krapton?

poprock responds:

They call movie awards Felixes on Krapton. Is not Doug Jones too skinny to play Godzilla?