Renegade-Hamster's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Numa Numa: The Debate]

Terrible!

This is complete crap.

Tips:

1, Lose the robot voice. It is the most annoying voice in the entire world, excepting the voice of Mary Hart from Entertainment Tonight.

2, Make the voice talk FASTER. It was so freaking slow I felt like shooting someone.

3, The author's comments has most of the text from the cartoon, so what's the point? It is clear that you could have said what you wanted to with a post on the BBS. A flash movie was not needed.

4, Try to occupy the viewer's gaze. Staring at txt that is being read out very slowly is boring. You should have included more graphics to make things visually interesting.

5, Make sure the movie is actually good before you upload it onto Newgrounds. Try showing it to friends or family, or even other NG users you know.

6, Pick a topic that is interesting. Nobody cares about how NG received New Numa.

Hoogiman responds:

Yeah, I know the idea is absolutely stupid. In fact, I have absolutely no idea why I did this. I have made some movies with a story and stuff. See: 'Monkey Removal Man'.

But I'm just a bored kid with a computer. And I also think I'm an attention whore.

[StarCraft: The Hunt 2/2]

Heng on a munute!

I think you should have named this

NEW ZEALANDERS...

IN...

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!

Voice-acting could have been better, but the audio quality was nice and clear, and I love how you retained your real accents instead of "americanising" yourselves.

Some good action sequences and graphics. Great job on another quality submission.

4/5 (almost a 5)

LogFish responds:

Heh yea dog, you should check out the reviews of the first episode, I was getting SLAMMED about the accent, but hardly anyone gives a crap anymore and some people like it! I'm glad I didn't, I don't feel like I've sold out at all like I would have. I knew people would get over it! Now I just have to somehow inform people that it isn't a british accent, sigh...

[(2006) Sneaky Sneaky]

Close to being completely lame

I think there is a difference between making fun of lame things, and actually being lame. This simple claymation walks the line, leaning perilously close to actually being lame.

I assume all the pauses between sentences were when I was meant to be in hysterics. Dude, you should have put in canned laughter. I mean, how the HELL are we supposed to know when something's funny?

The animation is okay, but very simplistic, and so are the clay models. The script, as I said, is kinda lame, but not in complete need of a wheel chair.

I mean, it usually gets around in crutches, and can sometimes go un-aided for several seconds, but it's still kinda lame. It looks like it would like to work, but feels defeated by its disability and just sits at home playing video games and waiting for the pizza that comes directly out of its compensation payout.

You get 2 points for the animation, and 1 for the humour, which was almost funny. I mean, I almost laughed at the policeman who was looking at his shoe, but it lacked comedic timing. Is this because you completely ad-lib your toons and hope they turn out good?

3/5

Knox responds:

"I assume all the pauses between sentences were when I was meant to be in hysterics. Dude, you should have put in canned laughter. I mean, how the HELL are we supposed to know when something's funny?"

If you need to be told when somethings funny, then i guess youre not as smart as youre trying to act

[Fap to NG acts: Hamy_Jamy]

Disgusting and unfunny

This flash shows nothing more than the fruits of a childish and idiotic sense of humour.

Oh, hahahahahaha. Jokes to do with sexual behaviour are SOOOOO funny. Hahahaha. You are quite the cultured wit! Intelligent and subtle.

0/5

QwertyBoi responds:

:::looks at profile:::

"Message from Renegade_Hamster:
<< I have a black hand! AWESOME!!!."

Yeah, pulling out the race card, which has been done to death, is really really really really really really funny my friend.

[God?]

It's okay

Graphics aren't amazing, animation is minimal. Jokes are kinda funny.

Looking at your author's comments, I should probably point out that the Bible tells us why the world is horrible. (Genesis, chapters 1-3) God created the world perfect, and humanity screwed it up by rebelling against Him.

Why is the world horrible? Because we sinned. God judged the sin by giving us exactly what we wanted: to live by our own rules. But He also loves us, which is why we can be right with God if we admit we have sinned, humbly ask for forgiveness, and believe we are forgiven through the death of Jesus on the cross. If you do this, you will have sure hope of eternal life because of Jesus' resurrection. I hope you will find forgiveness for your sin, as I have.

Anyway, back to the toon. You get a 2/5 from me. Almost a 3. But your graphics and animation let you down.

Murasameblade responds:

Whoa dude, you took that too seriously man, this isn't bible study hour also. But i agree with the animation.. i'm not that good at it... i prefer directing.

[Banana Republic]

I liked this

It was silly and childish, and so am I.

You could improve this by making your voices clearer and louder.

Good job on the graphics, animation and flow of the story.

3/5

P.S. I was about to be a snob and point out to you guys that tomatoes are fruit, but then you did so in the toon anyway.

P.P.S. Mushrooms are fungi, not fruit OR vegies. GASP!

Nutcasenightmare responds:

Either Will forgot that, or the mushrooms were as stupid as the tomatoes.

[Teagirl]

This was okay. It has some good jokes

I like your graphics and the animation is smooth, although simple. Some things were funny, but some jokes were crap and lame. It seems like you rushed the writing.

I object to the fact that you stole that "Intense Fighting" joke from "Secret Lives of Squirrels" by Alex Thomas, submitted on June 4, 2005. (Anyone reading this, go watch "Squirrels" right now to see what I mean).

You didn't even credit the guy. In fact, you credited yourself with the joke (Intense Fighting by Wonchop), and that's just dishonest. Don't give me any "I didn't know" bull, because the joke is almost identical.

Otherwise, I liked it. Just a bit.

3/5

Wonchop responds:

I am aware that guy did the rushed thing due to his 30 day trial running out. tbf, he didn't have his own accapella to go with it. or kettles. =P

[The Chicken or the egg!]

Funny toon! I enjoyed this.

Good graphics and animation. That bit where the narrator drones on for a while got annoying, but overall I liked it.

You have some flawed information, though.

Between man and the chimpanzee (not gorillas, as you have depicted) there is 4% difference in genetic make-up (not 1%, as you have stated). But that equals 125 million DNA differences. The difference that means chimps will stay chimps, but human babies will learn language and higher thinking skills.

The figures no more say chimpanzees are 96% human, than we are 50% banana (with which we share 50% of the same DNA).

Neither is there such a convenient line-up of ape-to-human fossils in the fossil record. You find apes (Australopithecus) and humans (Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, Sapiens), but no "ape-men".

I believe what the Bible says about our creation. Genesis tell us that God created creatures to reproduce after their own "kind" (not necessarily "species" in the contemporary scientific sense).

So, I would have to say that the Chicken came before the Egg. If the Egg came first, it would reproduce after it's own kind according to God's word (creating more eggs).

It's funny how such a basic, yet enduring, question shows where our pressuppositions come from.

You believe evolution, so you say the egg came first (layed by a closely related "non-chicken"). I believe God's Word, so I say the chicken came first.

3/5

whataboffin responds:

Im glad you enjoyed my film I knew from the start that the percentage thing was really right but i never intended it to be too scientifically accurate. QI on the telly a while ago said we were 2% different so it seems there are lots of different ideas on how different we all are.

[<3 from the GG]

Ha!

MrKickyourbutt wrote:
"Your link doesn't even work."

Fafara responded thusly:
"Read the authors comments, bihotch."

CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE?!!

Granted, MrKickyourbutt is an idiot for complaining about something explained in the author's comments, but calling him a "bihotch" certainly isn't a loving thing to do.

:D

The Glock Group's new facade of being a happy group full of "nice people" that love each other has been revealed to be bull in the first couple of minutes.

PlexityMusic responds:

Personal stuff.

[-FREE WHISTLE POINTS-]

Crap

The graphics are simple, but okay. The animation is simple, but smooth. My main gripe is that this is not entertaining in the slightest.

First of all, lose the robotic voices. They are really annoying and cannot achieve the full range of human emotion, thus they are terrible substitutes for real voice actors.

Secondly, the way you present your message is so boring. You point out the rules so slowly, with no funny comments.

Thirdly, most of the "points" you make are pretty stupid. The only one you hit on the head was that people should not be abusive to authors who submit works to NG. I agree with you there completely.

The rest of your argument is on shaky ground.

"You can't criticise authors if you can't use flash yourself".

You don't need to know flash to know when something isn't funny, interesting or thrilling. You don't need to know flash when something is crappily animated. You don't need to know flash to have an opinion on a flash.

"People who can't use flash can't be helpful in their reviews".

That must be why the site only allows people who've sent in submissions to review other author's work... Wait a tic! Everyone is allowed to review a submission. Why is that? I'll tell you.

People who don't know flash will still be able to help by pointing what is wrong, even if they don't know how to fix it.

On top of that, not all who criticise are inexperienced with flash. There are plenty of flash authors who would criticise your flash, and you should take advice from them when they give it.

1/5

By the way, if you're thinking of putting my screen name up in your author's comments for people to flag this review, know this: Flagging is not automatic. It alerts admins to a problem, and if they find one, they will deal with it. If you have people flag this, admins will find no problem with my review, and everyone of the idiots who flagged it will receive negative whistle points.

Have a nice day, don't get hung up with the idiots who have nothing better to do than abuse you, and good luck with future submissions.

TruffleClock responds:

What the fuck? Does it matter if it is entertaining?

How can they help if they do not tella way to fix it?

I was going to put your name on the list just because you said not to, but eat an _