jonthomson's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Snow Plow Man]

For a first it's OK

It's all rather samey with some poor graphics, but it had occasional funny moments and for a first (and only by the looks of things) effort, it's not too bad. It's kind of surreal when the two snow ploughs go off into the sunset! Nice bit of token interaction at the end as well.

[Carrot]

Quick and enjoyable

It's short but it's kinda cute, the carrot was great. Quite an old submission now but it still looks good and is worth watching. The music was random but suited the movie. Not spectacular but very good.

[Hey Dad]

Short, simple and funny

A straight out simple cartoon, which just happens to be well drawn and very funny. It's on the short side but there's not much more that could have been done with this really. Nice bit of violence.

[JC on Britney]

Average

It is what you say, a short snippet. I wouldn't call it very funny though. It was OK, the graphical style was good if lacking in much animation, and the sounds were nice and clear. Nothing special, but not poor, and maybe worth watching.

[My Ear Hurts!]

Random lame crap

This is the sort of crap that gives clock movies a bad name - there's no plot, the flash is crap technically, it's not funny and it's just random. Not worth watching at all.

[Secret Admirer : Foamy The Squirrel]

Stalking based humour

Another fine Foamy based flash, not one of the greatest but still funny nonetheless. The simple formula never seems to get tired. Foamy is the funny one, so that's probably why I don't like it as much as others. Foamy lovers will naturally like it. Other people may not be as impressed.

[Battle for the Portal Pt3]

Best of the bunch so far

Better than the second one by a small margin, lots of good violence and the music (same as in Rockman Neo) added a lot to it. I thought the graphic quality was a bit lower in this one than in episode 2 (particularly in the Strawberry Clock fight scene) but it was still viewable. The final installment should be a cracking view.

[Battle for the Portal Pt2]

Much better than the first one

Ran a hell of a lot quicker than the first episode on my computer - which is good, as it allowed the quality to shine through a lot more. Good selection of violence and comedy, and sets up the third episode very nicely. A big improvement.

[Battle for the Portal Pt1]

I don't have that bad a computer, surely?

OK, there's no question that a lot of work went into this. The 3D graphics look very good, people clearly love it and the idea of a NG battle as it were is an excellent one. But I couldn't really enjoy it as for me it was only moving at about a frame per second. On low quality. I don't exactly have an awful computer (it's about a 1.3ghz), but surely it would have been better to sacrifice some quality to improve the framerate. I really couldn't enjoy it very much considering that on my machine it ran worse than a dodgy movie downloaded of Kazaa. If it's my computer it's my computer, I can only rate what I see.

SecretAgentBob responds:

Hmm... very odd. Did you have any other windows opened in front of the movie (not actually overlapping, just active, like a pop-up ad)? Sometimes that can slow things down.

Anyway, sorry it didn’t play right for you.