JazLyte's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Base 17 ::03::]

If you were going for an anime feel, you killed it

You hit the anime nail right on the head. The character designs were solid, the animation connected suprisingly well, and the voice acting was clear and professional, if not realistic. I guess the problem here that I picked up on is that with the perfect anime mimic came a mimic of anime's issues as well. The reason I can say this is because I've done the exact same thing, and am trying to fix it now. I just wanted to make that clear so that I don't come across as a hypocrite, I can just spot it easily.

The scenario just doesn't stand out, the story is pretty typical anime fare. There's this cold, emotionless main character who has no personality whatsoever and brings nothing interesting to the story. And the voice actors seemed like they were trying too hard, and everything is pretty one-dimensional. The cold character is cold 24/7. The spunky girl is spunky 24/7. The friends have no other purpose in the story other than to try to cheer up the main character when really, in real life, personality-less people like that are unbearable. Maybe just a touch of realism would help, mix things up a bit, add something new to the anime genre like Samurai Champloo, Dead Leaves or the Boondocks did. Don't worry, I'm dealing with similar issues in my own work, it's all good. Good luck with that, the animation looks great.

[Perform]

Nice, and a deeper meaning...

I like it, it had this cool dark feel to it, and the animation was really interesting. This is definitely my favorite of yours yet.

The metaphor about leaders and followers especially caught my attention. The world starts with somebody 'different' who tries to walk among everybody else and hide his uniqueness, but eventually it becomes apparent to the people who keep the daily grind going and they try to change him to be like everybody else. He defies the powers that be and rises to become powerful like them, but eventually leaders thrive on the monotony and predictability of others and he spots another outcast among the drones.

Nice work!

[Bowser's Kingdom: Eps 10]

We all love it when the turtles & mushrooms swear.

The humor was lame. There was no originality whatsoever, it was boring and you weren't even trying. It's a soul-less, hollow movie that's not funny and has no real piece of yourself. You don't love animation or art, you're just throwing stuff together for kicks. I don't think I really have to say much more than that, it's a bunch of 8 bit turtles and mushrooms talking with 2 frames for each animation.

Two ways to become a Newgrounds superstar, so little time. Either (a) Develop a deep love for animation and practice your craft religiously, or (b) Whore yourself out, bend over for the crowd and skip the work. Just fart out a poorly drawn and/or sprite flick and use bland sitcom humor with enough FUCKs to make it seem "edgy". Tough to see which one you chose.

And don't worry, I know that not everybody really likes animating or is really even funny in real life, but what does what I say matter, it'll have a 4.78 by the end of the day, 4,000,000 Perfect 10 reviews. You'll never read this review and don't care anyway. Just saying my 2 cents. Peace.

pthouse responds:

Believe me, sir, I love animation more than many people but I'm just simply tired of doing sprite based cartoons. For that, Raskin should be taking over BK animation and I'll do other projects, like Doodelquest, for example. Thanks for watching.

[Tsunami Prequel 1 Pt.2]

Highly Unique, Grossly Underrated

You've really got something good here, man. The style is highly unique and cool, and honestly I enjoyed every second of it. I LOVE the art style, it makes the flick seem truly artistic, and I'm enjoying the story so far, the story of Atlantis has always intrigued me. The mechanical animations from part 1 look great, and make me think about the mech animations of Samurai Jack, one of my favorite cartoons of all time. Even the voice acting is good here.

I have one complaint: The screensize. the screensize is so tiny, I have to practically put my forehead to the screen. Also, you don't have an SWF version of this, man? If you had used the original SWF instead of video, you could have doubled the size, got my perfect 10 and probably a better score. I see some haters already. Ignore 'em. It's going to be a sick series.

glenbw responds:

HI YungJazz,

Thanks for your great remarks on the prequel trailer! Too bad I'm not used to Flash too often, though other factors cause this one to suffer a lot: 1) Trying to compress its already massive file size is a real headache (even when it's split into three) and 2) Newgrounds doesn't allow files which are larger than 10 MB, so there are some noticeable flaws that can't be avoided. Anyway, I never expect to create such a fancy show with flashy SFX for the moment; my only purpose here is to tell a good story, that's what matters.

- Glen

[JUSTICE'd]

Caught me by surprise

It was actually pretty funny. The premise was really good, and I liked the dialogue. It had this really passive feel about it, and the drawings suited. I can't say for sure that I would change the style, because it grew on me, but with the simplicity of the characters, some more animation would be nice in the future. Overall, good for a quick laugh and well done, the style seemed to make it less of a fan flash and more your own thing. Good job. It's underrated.

[TastelessCandy - Ep3]

Been seeing these here for 3 days now...

And they are actually very well done. With the style, I have seen MUCH worse, but you dressed it up in a very professional way, and I give you points for that. The presentation is excellent. Also, I like the litte "camera movements" you use, it's a fun technique. Problem is, I've watched them all and haven't seen one funny one yet, and I'm the guy in every posse that laughs at horror movies. I can find something humorous in everything, but maybe it's just me. The humor is way past dry.

[Itachi The SuperstarPart1]

No Hahalolz from this

First off, did you even make this? It's embedded from Youtube or something, I've never seen that in a flash before. Even still, you picked an incredibly unfunny video to upload, and if it wasn't yours, I wouldn't even report it stolen.

The animation was lazy as always with these "Naruto 4 Eva Cute Kawaii Hentai Chan" fan flashes with the little 12-second Naruto drawings dancing to some wack techno song I've never heard before, but always amazes me with how much I hate it upon hearning. That was NOT funny, and I am very forgiving of Naruto, I even like one out of every 150 crappy episodes; sometimes they actually fight and say things that are realistic (It's rare). This was lazily animated, based on a crappy, overused idea, and I wouldn't be surprised if you stole it from somebody else, because any animator with half a brain can export their movies straight to high-quality SWFs. Peace.

[Dragonball Unlimited Ep.2]

Lawdy...

This flash personifies everything wrong with the new generation of Newgrounders...You've mixed Dragon Ball Z with Naruto and Kingdom Hearts and have the audacity to have done it with sprites... There was seriously no point in the production of this movie that you asked yourself if anybody would watch this, it's practice, you're not at the stage yet where you should be looking to showcase your work. Please don't come out too fast, it's bad for self esteem.

Go practice drawing your own material instead of stealing characters that will never have that piece of yourself that will make them interesting. WRITE A STORY, don't just animate any old fanboy fantasy that pops into your head, or at least get a writer. Commission voice actors from the VA Club in the forums, don't just write what they're saying; either that or make silent flicks. Whatever you do, please stop THIS, THIS is not worth the bad reviews and loss of self-esteem.

[|~SpeedAnim:BattleCool~|]

Yup, this is my favorite yet!

Great job man, you really made some sick fights in this one. I think it got a little intense, but I know you like the romantic stuff so it's all good. You have thoroughly convinced em to stick to far east style for my stuff lol and I won't question it. Spike is pretty grimy now, he just punches that girl in the fece haha. My favorite yet! But there's a serious lack of Maloc here XD

[More Brawl Taunts]

Yeah, gonna have to agree with you

It gets your attention, though I didn't really laugh to be honest, I almost did when Ash said "Up the butt, Charizard!". It seemed like it didn't take too long to make, and was INCREDIBLY reminiscent of "AWESOME" to me, but it was entertaining I'll give you that. Fun, but not funny. The drawings seemed quick and pretty rushed, and especially that animation with Snake fighting.

I don't wanna hate on you because of the attention it got, and you seem to be aware of it so I guess there isn't much for me to say there. I still can't help but raise an eyebrow that a flash that was made in less than a month got way better scores than ones that took me 3x as long. But you know how fan flashes go, it's always an automatic 5. Peace.