monk1's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[One Heart Sports and Rec]

Well...

It's not bad for a P.S.A./Advertisement/Supportive flash for Community Recreational centers, The animation was quite well done, and to be honest, the music was okay, but could be produced better. The Black Guy and The White chick who walked to the girl by the tree, seriously looked like the Earth and (i believe) water planateers from Captain planet. lol

[Waiting for the Bus 2]

I can't believe this.

Why zero you might ask, why zero out of five as well? Pretty simple explanation.

Imagine what a viewer would think after seeing the title, an actual sequel!(somehow)

There was no attempt here to be funny. The typical "Oh you didn't see this coming" type of humor is funny when it's random, not so bland and overdone that you wouldn't expect anywhere other than a 1990's sitcom like Full House or something of that nature.

The credits? Does that really mean anything? You're rating the animation not the credits. The credits aren't funny, and the flash isn't funny. This is another one for the fanboys and fangirls who just love C&H without reason.

You watch comedy for the situation, and the unexpected, and well written/performed antic/joke/punchline in general, NOT for the slight chance at the end, something funny's going to happen during the credits.

You're artwork is well done, your voice-over skills are as well.

I was hoping for something along the lines of the son of the bus driver. Don't ask me why, but I just figured it would be much funnier.

Well I've had enough rambling... actually try to realize that this isn't the road to follow. Pro tip: Think of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's episode about Cartmen's mom and how they didn't reveal who his father was. They got hate-mailed up the ASS.

[Waiting for the Bus!]

Wow this is abnormal

It's a bit too sad and long to be funny, but it's a bit comical. Liked the race he was offered... thought that was funny. good job.

[Happy Hollywood Birthday]

Well it's actually not bad to be honest

It's not bad, my only problem is the audio quality of the voice, was a bit meh, but other than that, It's pretty cool for something of such small size. Loved the color effects too. :) You get a six good sir. :)

[Flight of the Dragonfly]

To be honest

I was kind of annoyed by the stereotypical anime-esque styled drawings, but however I decided to stick through it and let it slide.
It could've used a little more effort, and to make it more dramatic, maybe a smooth, flowing effect, kind of the effect you see when people draw wind going through a field, and it likes everything was repeatedly re-drawn. I like that, because I'm not fond of the idea of looking like something has little to no effort attempted in it etc. like Mouth movements when speaking in Japanese cartoons. Open huge, tiny close. repeat. But I just didn't click with this.

I'd also like to say grey is a bit bland. I'd like to see maybe some faded colors added in, almost as if they're washed down, and greyed themselved.... to the point where it almost looks as if there isn't even color. It gets it across, by showing that it is what is, and the color reinforces it, BUT the grey, faded quality of it, keeps that melancholy feel.

Good job on what you've done, but I don't really know exactly how much I mean that...Not to be rude. I know I couldn't put forth the same amount of effort, surely.

[floo]

All flash.

Of course I mean flashy artwork, not flash. lol

I love the amazing effects, but there's no reason to not have even a slight story, in fact if there was one and some of the transitions had been a bit smoother at the beginning. Maybe make some sense of it.

Animation 8/10 (Would be 10 if you put just a little more effort into that little guy)
Sound 10/10
Effort 7/10 ( the lack of story makes me think you tried to hurry up throughout the whole thing, and kind of ditch a bigger factor in it.)
Overall 7.75/10

Maybe I'm not looking at it the right way though. Beautiful work though with the luminescent effects, and the Tree. I'm not fond of christmas, and even my heart was quite warmed.

[Splash Attack]

Okay explain this.

I fucking love this. I used to play Pokemon all the time on my gameboy...
and yes magikarp was so pointless that you never used in him.

Is that the point? I don't understand if you're trying to say there's some hidden joke, or something.

[RWD: 027]

Nope

It's cute...it's amusic... It's short.
Not frontpage worthy.

[StickDudeKillingArena4:Ex]

Not quite Front Page material.

Then again that's my opinion. I Feel I must say, yes there is potential here, like Ringfinger's battlefield things... Which Is immediately what I think of when I see things like this. Now, some of the sounds effects, and things I saw people do, reminded me of Street Fighter, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. The dude with the sword totally Reminded meof Ike. The Haduken made me laugh, because I was already thinking street fighter. I think you should try something like your own personal Xiao Xiao, like Zhu, though not COPYING, because I wouldn't advise that, lol. I'd really like to see you make something similar to Xiao xiao 3 though, That is by far the best in my opinion. I think you should do a similar thing, but guessing you like the "transition" that you did here, so that wouldn't be a problem. In fact, I'd like to see something diferent, maybe do that 'transition', but in multiples, or multiple rooms.

Anyway yeah, I just gotta say that when you have something like these that have been done before, and are sort of cliche, you might want your own unique thing to add, to completely catch someone offguard.

Good luck. :D