Cyberdevil's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[NATA2014: Heart-To-Heart]

Hmm, the plot's a real mystery in this one! From the start I assume the guy in the space shuttle's going to help that girl on the transmission, so he boots up and gets out the gun and shoots... the rope of someone about to hang himself? His son? A completely unrelated character (did he miss what he was actually aiming for? was that the point; pun?)? When he's spinning around in space from the recoil, it's impossible to see his expression, so if he did what he set out to do is impossible to know. Is there a message here that family's closest, or a pun on extreme precision, or something I'm not getting at all?? Animation was nice though, smooth and colorful, simple and stylish.

-cd-

Whirlguy responds:

I decided against having any voice acting in the movie, because I wanted to keep everything a mystery until the very end. Your review tells me I succeeded :)

Having no voice actors has its downsides though. The woman on screen for example. She got desperate about her son's state and sneaked into the headquarters to tell her husband that he's become suicidal. The mix of mystery and urgency didn't work out too well.

I hope everyone understood it would be something along those lines.

[Toons To Wear Pants To]

An impressive mixture of animations! Was expecting more songs to wear pants to songs, probably because: title, but it's a masterful mesh, all types of styles and themes and sounds in the background. The instrumental music seems to give a much bigger freedom in animating than the ones with lyrics, but it seems like the ones with lyrics are the funner ones to listen to, where you need to actively engage both senses (I mean, to interpret sound rather than let the visuals carry it forward). Animation's incredibly fluid and creative, and the amount of these make it seem like I'd an expect an entire collab would be - would be a fun idea for a collab too, animating shorts for certain music. Great work with this!

-cd-

AcidX responds:

It would have been nice to do more. I think the plan was originally to release a few of these and do more Songs to Wear Pants to... However, as it got left so long, it just became a big mass of shitty clips and little skits. I like the stark contrast of opinions about this lol.

[Bryan Singer]

lol, unexpected encounter. Animation; narration is great, and a well-carried-out surprise effect! Not sure if there's a point to it all, but fun it was. Nice work!

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[Stall Scroll Mission]

lmao, I guess the best way to avoid random alien probing is to do quit wiping. A peaceful end when the aliens realize the value of toilet paper for pre-human encounters and hurriedly leave the planet. Simple, slightly random fun. Nice work!

-cd-

[OTTTD - Kill 'em all]

Awesome visuals and narrative, a crazy collection of characters and a sinister scenario! Sounds brutally entertaining, though I do wonder, will there be cutscenes, or is this type of visually animated mastery exclusive to the trailer variant? Nice work anyhow!

-cd-

[Staven Universe]

Well that was random. O_o Never seen the real thing, but whatever's going on here it was kinda entertaining, unexpected and plotlessly kinda... pointless. Nice animation though.

-cd-

[The Shin-Chan Dance]

Haha, catchy tune; hilarious sprite animation! :D That dog walking into the picture too, lmao. Nice work!

-cd-

[Dreamer]

With the initial jumps, this rabbit seems to defy gravity, he kinda hovers in the air a bit before sinking back down again. The fuzzy texture looks soft and perceptyable, but the eyes... they look a bit flat, maybe because they don't move, or because they lack detail? The detail in the sprouting plant of spiring inspiring spires is awesome though, and when the rabbit is pushed back, falls down and wakes up... well it's a nice ending. I feel like the fall could've been intensified a bit though, it's like he wakes up before he reaches the ground, or sinks into it, before he reaches the point where he should wake. Nice work though!

-cd-

[The Noob Adventures Episode 22]

Woo, the king is back! :D It's another crazy episode of epic hacks and slaugher and... it seems something big's going to happen real soon. Looking forward to the next one!

-cd-

[Good Boy!]

Hah, was expecting something, but not that! Thhe eyeballing expressions are a bit over the top, but overall I like the expressive style, the simple plot... I thought that squirrel would have some more significance though, that it'd be the main enemy, that it'd fly up into the tree thanks to his bark rather than away from it, but anyway, nice work!

-cd-