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I agree with rancky, but more so in musical changes to fit mood. Sound effects can very quickly ruin a mood.

I have to say, it's a bit drawn-out, but makes me wonder about what sort of metaphor that bear can be. Child-like innocence, comfort, and so on. In the case of innocence, it would be Yasuko, but the bear would be some sort of courageous exploration.

If it were a sense of comfort I would disagree with the message, but if it were something internal or external that symbolizes and embodies the idea of "putting yourself out there", I'm curious as to what it is. Something that I've been lacking and only seldom find.

Outside of this, nice work. :)

I like it. The images/drawing are really well done. The only thing I seem to get from it is how short time is

Other than that, there's not much of a message in my opinion, so I'm not too impressed.Props on the freaky psychadelic look. :)

It only violates rules if you sample more than 8 seconds from a non-public domain intellectual property copyrighted music as far as I know of, unless non-profit, and allowed by their licensing terms. Other than that, if this is your own work, then props to you. I can't even draw stick figures that well. lol

But I can't give this a high rating on drawing/animation techniques alone. I give you a 5/10, since that's really all I can give. Half is image, half is content, at least in this case to me.

LaurynShipplett responds:

Thanks, I agree with you on what you said. I threw this together in like 20 minutes just to see how newgrounds works since i've been using it for a while but never made an account. never really had a reason anyway.

I'm not going to lie, but without that laugh, this flash would be nothing.

It was amusing, but the white bar at the top is strange. I'd say get rid of that and resubmit.

Not bad. I liked it to an extent, but I don't know if you're sharing this because of something along the lines of taking pride in it, or just a brief timewaster.

I'm sorry, but you really need to work on how you package something like this, especially if you want to be taking this seriously, even if only half-seriously.

Text doesn't work so well for expressing your own jokes like the "Well... okay that was interesting" and that shouldn't be a part of the trailer, but rather commentary on a trailer as a joke after it's made. There wasn't much good here in sound, and in terms of anything of interest. I know you may feel otherwise, but as a creator, you're going to be much more appreciative of your work than someone who views it, because they have to relate to it, in order to find something in it that they like. Something about the characters they already know, or something to get them excited for what you're going to make. I'm going to vote 0 on this, not because I'm upset with you, but because I want you to redo this, and take it seriously. The half-star review however, is to show, that I do believe you want to make something out of this. I wish you the best of luck with it.

This isn't the place for this. The forum would be a better way to ask for thoughts on this.

But I would say the second, and third if he were running to an imminent disaster.

Mega2416 responds:

Well it is testing, i do consider 2 and 3 as final product, or at least just in need of a few fix.i believe the video to still provide a small amount of entertainment.

Don't listen to these guys. They're missing the point of what there is to enjoy, or they take their own letdown from what they expected, and take that out on you.

I'm a big fan or surreal and ironic humor, like Tim and Eric and youtube poops, and that's what I took the intro as, and it was great on its own. At first I thought "Wow, that's a very good Homer impersonation", but then I realized it was an audio soundbite, about which I'm not complaining in the least.

I understand if you're busy with projects, but if you were to take these drawings, and keep them looking goofy and comical, of course for non-profit, I'd like to see a sort of "lazy" or "lackluster" look considering the comparison of the original, parody of decent length, or just an actual series. You could involve just random and stupid things, as long as it fits in with the three necessities of comedy: Timing, Opportunity, and Surprise.

The silliness of how they all looked in the intro makes me think you could make an awesome number of options.

Please consider what I said, and if you do it, please let me know. You can do it. :)

I really like this, as well as the first one. It's similar in style to the awesome series, in relation to speed and low-brow humor, but that's not the least bit of a complaint or insult.

The jokes are moving fast enough so that even if they're simple jokes, the speed at which they flow, makes it hard to anticipate. Through that you can take random cliches, and alter them slightly, and it becomes uproaringly funny(lol whismur).

The random little details add for extra laughs as well, like "Whitney's Miltank was here" in the dumpster, "Want your very own bicycle?" on the poster partially covered by Miltank, Lugia's head popping out of the Whirl Islands, and so on. It's terrific. I laughed so hard unexpectedly at the rival pissing on the statue. BEYOND unexpected.

You've taken that of which is commonplace and ultimately uninteresting to me, and made it incredible, and for that I can't thank you enough. So refreshing to have something new to be interested in on a level akin to that of the awesome series. :)

Existentialism... I would expect more thoughts, something the least bit profound.

My only reason for complaining is that it's a topic of great importance for many people, leaving many of us to question, observe, and ultimately accept and reject based on our own preconceptions, misconceptions, and fears.

There's many a discussions that can and should be happening on the topic, that never do, because of the forced duality of the way we see things of enemies and allies. Most people are too primitive for such a conscious conversation. I suppose this video had to appeal to them as well, or it wouldn't have made it to the front page huh?

The drawings were fairly decent, the ending was good, and the voices were decent and dialogue comprehensible. so I will say good job in that respect. :)

urbfilms responds:

Hey, thanks for your review. The video wasn't really meant to be taken seriously, it was just supposed to be a comedy video, but thanks for taking your time to watch it.

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