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[-True North-]

The parody of parodies

Sweet! All your base are belong to us! Uniting possibly everything that could be parodied, True North is a great humourous movie that is deserving of its high rating and accolades. A nice storyline, merciless clock slaughtering and comedy music to go with the bags of humour. The attention to detail was cool - there were lots of subtle jokes that you had to watch carefully for. I think the only reason why I'm not giving this ten is that "to be continued" bit (don't even joke about that) and the fact we missed Strawberry Clock's death scene. Suppose it leaves it to the imagination. His last words should have just been B B B though!

[C Meets Osama Bin Ladin]

Don't even know why I'm giving this 1

It's an incredibly poor flash - a letter C meets Bin Laden. That's it. Made in all of about 5 minutes by the looks of things. Terrible.

[lemons]

Mmmmm, lemons!

It just said Mmmm, lemons! What the hell is that? At least B was in colour, this doesn't even have that!

[Eggplant Man]

OK, not great

I think I've heard the soundclip you used before, it's an OK concept, but I found it was too short and not massively funny. The graphics were passable. Do more, just try to improve generally.

[mmmm. fight]

Yep, it's a fight

I don't think I've ever seen a stick fight where one of the stick figures gets napalmed... the fight was good, lots of different deaths, although some were random, and smooth enough animation. Sounds were OK as well. For a stick fight, it's above average. For a standard flash movie, it's distinctly average due to the unoriginality. Oversaturated genre and all that.

[The World In Zings Head]

Great short cartoon

One of the best really small cartoons I've seen in a long time - starts off simply, then the cat thing gets scared and runs off, but there's a cool twist at the end. Possibly better while stoned, this has real nice graphics, ok sounds and is fun to watch.

[Retarded Animal Babies 5]

Another great RAB installment

Possibly the first flash movie on NG long enough to set off my screensaver, this is yet another fantastic Retarded Animal Babies movie. While it may not reach the peaks of RAB3, it's still hilarious, and has everything you've come to expect. General idiocy, sharp graphics and cool sounds, and sweet violence (although less than in previous episodes). I'd love to see where this series could possibly go from here!

[Metroid spoof]

Alright sprite spoof

It's not bad, but it's rather unoriginal, had basic graphics and few sound effects (I believe the only sound was the music, and the Propellerheads have been used far too often). Not a great deal of plot to it either. It can get better if you put a bit of thought into the next one. And there's no need for that Green Day track at the end.

[MARIO vs plane]

Poor Mario short

This lacked everything - it wasn't funny, the graphics were crap, the sounds were poor, the violence was incredibly basic and simple to make, there was no interactivity. It's just an awful movie, which only gets 2/10 as it's more than 10 seconds long.

[Mario & Flag Pole]

Cool Mario parody

Lots of different comical flagpole stunts, a new take on Mario I haven't seen before. It's funny and imaginative, good effort!