jonthomson's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bob the Bunny : 1]

Funny cartoon

This made me chuckle. Cool music, nice graphics and a decent punchline to boot. I wasn't sure what to expect, as a lot of old submissions with high scores suck, but this was better than average and worth viewing.

[1 reason people drown]

Basic humour, kinda works

Average short - good drawing skills, basic idea and OK ending. Sound effects were nice. For a quick laugh it's fine.

[In The Navy]

Very old joke

That's not a joke technically speaking, seeing how that conversation did actually happen IRL... although I did hear about that one so long ago (ie. about 1998) that I'd forgotten about it. Worth watching for the gag but the flash itself isn't that great and the music at the end is completely irrelevant.

[King Hippo's Punch Out]

Could use some tidying up

I like the concept of taking King Hippo (always one of my favourite PO characters) through the ranks, and the flash has some good ideas in. Sadly, it all seemed to be made in a rush, rather untidily. A lot of the stats pages didn't make any sense, the preloader didn't work, some buttons didn't do their job properly, and that's just a few examples. A few of the fights are rather similar though. Enjoyable, but flawed.

[checkmate]

Fools Mate is funny

It was incredibly obvious (to anyone who's played chess) what was going to happen. It's still kind of funny though. It's funnier if (like I was doing) you play the Star Wars Imperial Death March in the background, dunno why. Nice tweening of the pieces.

[Wade's Banning Spree]

It's funny!

Funny stuff, good parody. A nice comic diversion from the crap that gets submitted every day, and it's true, anything with that music is just hilarious!

[Milk Is Expensive]

Plain awful

Whilst I don't share the same tone as some previous reviewers, this was just rubbish. The movie consists of one picture with CokeClock. Infinitely looped. That's it. How anyone can find this slightly entertaining I don't know.

[Another Short Animation 2]

Surprising ending

Stick walks along to car, gets in car and then there's an unexpected finish to it. Amusing, but all in all too short. The scream of pain was quite annoying as well. At least it's well animated.

[Ticking briefcase]

OK clock short

I'm giving this a four - had nice graphics, didn't make a whole lot of sense but it had enough in it to get an OK score. Not massively funny, also the infinite loop is annoying. I've seen better clock movies but I've seen worse as well, very middle of the road.

[Leap of Faith]

Good selection of stick pain

There's a simple idea in use here, there's five different comic and painful ways for a stickman to fail to jump from one building to another. The sound loop was good, but I couldn't figure out whether the initial running animation looked lifelike or simply crap and confusing. The final failure was the funniest, but they were all funny to some extent. It's been done before but it's not a bad movie to watch.