MrGuru's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[The Face Collab]

Enjoyable, but fairly repetitive.

I certainly don't think my time spent watching this was wasted, but I didn't feel it was perfect either. My main gripe was that I rarely felt like I could focus enough on any one image to ever become grounded. As soon as I was starting to like a certain moment, things switched again. That made it fairly difficult to follow and appreciate the art work (some of which was excellent). Also, certain "themes" (like melting faces) were overused, or all should have been placed back to back.

Good work. Makes me want to do a collab.

TheBoogley responds:

1000 blessings upon you MrGuru!

[Fiberglass Monkey]

Actually, an ape...

Very funny, I liked it a lot. But did you know that you were animating an ape? Looked like a chimpanzee, a member of the ape family. I'm sure nobody cares. :-) Good job, anyway.

[The News]

Ha! Great idea, but give me more!

I thought this was hilarious, because it's very true. However, it's only like 8 seconds long, and loops. I watched for about 30 seconds hoping it would turn into some Iraq Climate Change Remix or something, but I was sadly disappointed. Why not make an entire song out of it and do a whole music video? The idea is great, but you just don't spend enough effort executing it.

Renegade-Hamster responds:

I would have made a song out of it, but I can't do music. I could ask a friend to mix it for me, and then replace this with the new and improved one.

Thanks for the feedback!

[River City Rampage: Ex]

Pretty good

Pretty good, definitely better than 99% perfect of all other sprite based movies I have ever seen. However, the movie was short and lacked any sort of character to draw me in. The best of sprite based movies give some sort of very flimsy plot or introduction before getting into the nitty gritty, like VG Director's Cut Battle of the Mushroom Kingdom, which had all the battling but also a storyline to get me into it. I'm not saying you need an epic, but try to give me something to cling onto before you get right into the battling. Madness Combat and Xiao Xiao are probably the only movies that have ever succeeded in doing that, and that's only because of their incredible combat, and even Madness ended up adding in story. With sprites a story is a neccesity. But I'll stop talking now. Overall, great work. Just a little short of length and story.

[Moonlight]

Top Notch

That was excellent, top notch flash. By far one of my favorite entries. These were the best fantasy-style fight scenes I have ever seen in a flash, and the storytelling was brilliant and moving. Without actually having to explain any sort of plot, you were able to illustrate exactly what had happened. Brilliant. Sheer brilliance.

As critique, I would say not to end the last fight that way. It was incredibly cliché.

[Kagi Oni: Teaser]

Hmm

The animation style and quality was excellent, but nothing much happened at all and itwsa too short to deserve a high score, although it certainly should not be banned.

I'll be excited to see the finished product.

[ALIAS: Sewer Mission (1)]

Nice!

I liked it. Very nice stop animation, too. I also love Robot Chicken, so that helped. Having Marvin the manic depressive robot in there was really cool, too, I love him. I haven't seen the movie yet, is it any good?

Keep it up, looking forward to the rest.