Budj's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Little Bunny Foo Foo: No Evil 008]

Voices needed a little work in some places, but the animation and story were so well done it's near impossible to hold that against you. Very well done, loved it :>.

[Wonders: Stardate]

Wow I really love the style of this! Voices were awesome and I enjoyed the story too. Great stuff! :>

[Kaigan: SC -- Episode 1]

This was a good piece. Normally I don't say that with anime styled Flash animations, but for the most part this actually worked very well. The lineart was smooth and the colours nice, the little bits of animation were nice little perks so kudos for that!

As for the sound, voices were for the most part very good. At the beginning with the little green haired girl though, the echo on her voice is very overpowering. You should tone it down if you are to ever use it in any future flash back scenes. The quality and volume of the red headed girls lines spiked a bit in some places, especially when she said 'yeah, pleaaase". But apart from that, voice acting and sound design fit very well.

Backgrounds and character designs were exceptional, and I love the colours you used for the backgrounds. I'd have liked to see a bit more shading on the characters in the cafe scene though, but since this is an anime style I'm not overly fussed about that. Lip sync was another thing that urked me a bit... but again, anime style. Lol. It would be good to see you try and sync the mouths to the voices properly in the future though.

Overall this has my interest and I know over time you'll only get better, so I've added you to my favourites so I can keep in touch with this. You have a great style here, just work on the small sound issues and I sense greatness for this.

[TOME Episode 07]

I gotta say, this is easily the best episode in the series. The biggest improvement being the fact most of this was animated properly without too many of those text-talk scenes with the recycled animated loops. I don't know if that was just for this episode or not, but I urge you keep it up like this. I found the characters much more engaging and interesting purely because there was actual character animation in this.

There is still a gripe I have with this, and it may be too late to fix so this will be the only time I bring it up. It's never made 100% clear if I'm watching people play a video game or if these are characters IN a video game. I mean it's clearly the former from what I gather, but it's never consistant. One second the characters are like 'alright lets play this game/go on a quest blah blah blah' then the next they are treating it like life or death. Alpha gets possessed by a virus or something and goes on a killing spree, and the players he attacks get hurt in real life. I mean... what? Isn't this a video game? Why are the players treating it like life or death? How is he possessed by the game if hes a player? How are people being hurt by it? Why don't they just stop playing?

This would make more sense if they were game characters and their game world had a virus. That way if the virus wins, they die the end. In this case because it's a video game being played by humans, these players can realistically just say 'fuck this let's just get Skype accounts' and give the game away. As such I don't feel any remorse or empathy for them, since the price of possibly dying is to... literally save an online game. But hey, maybe I'm missing something. Maybe the plot will thicken further down the line. Having said that, it's Episode 7 now and I still am not 100% clear on what the plot is.

But look, it obviously works because you've got a lot of people following this series. Despite my complaints, I will keep watching so long as the animation stays at the quality of this episode. It looks much better than it did before.

[Lisa Killed Off Simpsons]

Lol, the Simpsons isn't the only thing quickly becoming stale and repetitive...

Speedo responds:

ho-hoooo controversial!

[Pokemon Satire Version]

Thank you.

[TALE OF WRECK-IT RALPH]

This was too obnoxious for me to find even slightly funny, which I assume was your intention? In which case you succeeded... or failed? Also when the text-to-speech voice is better than your own voice acting it's rather confronting. This would have been better had you used that voice for the narration too.