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[Happy InDOOMpendence Day]

= You do know England doesn't have a kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool....pfft makes sence to me i guess..

So after finding out that holding the X button playstation controller dosen't skip the cut scene of this animation, we find ourselfs in a room, to what i can only describe is the batchelers room of a half baked nostalgic nerd, i only say that because i think someone forgot to upgrade their games console like about 11 years ago, i mean seriously who keeps 2 balls on the floor? do i really have to go there with the heath ledgers dark knight quote, no i mean seriously what happened? did your tennis balls drop off hmmm?

But i digress, the feature starts off showing a guy with a Michael J fox mullet, styled for some hard core action, in what i could only describe are the tactics taken from some Green army guy from toy story, yeah! The scale fits!
His intentions are remarkably simple, Kill anything that's not American! oh that sweet american dream, it never dares to disappoint me.........Seriously this guy needs to get laid.
And i mean exactly that!!! he pretty much kills the British and even the freaking Natives!
Jeese this guys a douch.. oh and eh he aslo kills the camera guy, ......i guess he just learnt that the camera guy was on a expiring Visa? i dunno..

The Verdict:
I have no idea what i just saw, nor could i describe the visuals apart from it being photographed and merged with animation, this kind of style is not only underrated but is also incredibly clever if you know how to do it, The Animation is interesting with motion and set perception with the camera the presentation was more involved with camera work, in my opinion the characters were just icing on the cake to make a quick driven feature, the direction was well done and obviously is black comedy driven, the sound quality was top notch, and i laughed hard when i heard one of the familiar death screams which i remember from playing Command and conquer, the voice acting is hardcore and is well synched with the character too, if this is only just the beginning of something big, then watch out! because it's time to kick ass.

teaandcheese responds:

Wow. That's the most amount of words written in reponse to anything we've ever made... ever! Thanks for taking the time :D Glad you liked it! (Sorry for all the balls)

[Drop the Bass]

= Wow i think someone just relized that he wasn't getting anything better than a desk job in the place he just destroyed.

I guess i've always said it, Violence speaks louder than Action...I mean Action Speaks louder than Steaming off your anger at those evil guys, that said i'm calling them evil its mainly because i don't like the colour green, Leprechauns included dammit!
I mean jesus, this guy comes out from no where and starts killing everyone, i guess this is for world peace.... *Nods*
Either way despite not making any sence, my impression of this was as if i had just tuned into a movie 50 minutes in and ends with no epilogue.

The Verdict:
The animation is sprite based, however i have to question weather these sprites are even yours to begin with, you haven't even wrote it in the description.
The quality at times, is notably rushed and not rechecked since i could see certain sprites had bad Jpeg quality printed all over them.
The direction was WICKED SICK! K.O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With anything that is battle based i am a big fan of it period, so yes this caught my attention!
The sound was wasn't too bad either!
I look forward to seeing more of this fabulous work.

LoneVeritas responds:

1. They said that he was fired. In response, he set fire to the entire building.
2. The owner of the materials used in this animation is listed in the credits.
3. Yes, it was rushed. I hate to pull the noob card, but upon importing the png sprites into Flash, some of them morphed into jpegs. I'll be sure to be more aware of that if it ever occurs again the moment I start animating.
4. Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the review.

[Shao Kahn Party 2]

= It's official the 3 stooges have just been given Kung-Fu BALLS of fury!! * Applause *

Right off the bat you know something is going to be a blast when you just had the entire cast including justin Bieber in what i could only say is the most EXPENSIVE blockbuster of retired Mortal Kombat sprites you'll ever get to see in this day of 3D age.
The Episode starts off with a BOOGIE NIGHTS blast out! the whole scene made me want to grow an Afro thrust my pelvis and do the night fever dance!
The show was so awesome, HELL even Cyrax managed to grow a mouth out of his Breathing mask,
Pfft! come on if Micheal bay had to give Optimus prime a mouth out of his mask, THEN SO THE HELL CAN THIS GUY! ANYWAY MORE MUSIC FROM CYRAX!!

After some Sprite dope awesomeness, we get what i can only assume are the main protagonist of the story, Sub Zero, Liu Kang and the so called trolling Kung Lao, (You know i think he's actually like that in the game too),Explain about the adventure they just had, and how fun it is working together. The scene that did it for me was the matrix scene beautiful , just beautiful, Not to mention of how impressive the length of this movie was.

The Verdict:
The presentation is how i would do it, it was excellent! always start off with a bang.
The animation, well... it's obvious that these aren't your sprites, these belong to Midway, with the exception of Michael Jackson from the Segas moonwalker, and the sprite sheet can only give you so much in choices, having said that, there was alot of involvement in harnessing certain environments and objects to Re-emulated the scenes,however such additions like Justin and Barney, are nothing more than images. The voice acting was well chosen from many people who i am familiar with Such as Rina.

This was without the best Animated feature i've seen this week.

Alucard responds:

Dude, your review was great! Thanks!

[Damn It, Sarge]

= They're Fighting for American Dream of Mc Donalds!? gawd bless Americans!

You make a good speech and what do you get? TOASTY!
And seriously where the hell are they fighting, christ it looks like they are fighting in hell, since we don't know who the frigging enemies, i'm going to assume it's those Indian Slavers from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Anyway the presentation would of been better if the sound quality didn't sound like it was coming from a VHS, the animation was lazy, the design is horrible, the only person that seems alive is the guy who made that powerful speech then becomes burnt toast.
The direction is black comedy i guess, but seriously what the hell happen to the last guy at the end of the line is grabbing his crutch, what the hell is he doing?
Thats probably why the patriotic leader stepped on that mine in the first place.

[Super Wrestle Night Xviii]

= And i would of got away with it too if it wasn't for that dog and his chair.

You gotta ask yourself what the hell was the referee thinking?
Considering these are Luchas Libresm we'll take it that anything is possible, with the addition of foul play, and the fact that i didn't "hear" the bell go either.

The presentation was very well done, but as for animation, this is certainly proving why i wouldn't go and watch wrestling for real, since they didn't even move...
The quality on the characters was excellent and facial expressions was capital top notch,
The sound quality was excellent, the voice acting was nothing special, the direction was inspiring, it would good to see more moving next time.

[Jurassic Stick]

= They wouldn't of got much of a meal out of him anyway, he would taste like a red stick with no meat.

With the another stickman story, it would be fair to say this is a "part time" scientist who forgot to put on his white coat, i would question if they get one in his size for a skinny guy, this scene begins on a not so nice rainy day, don't they always?
What's wierd is that the dinosaurs look like dinosaurs, i guess that's mainly because sticksaurs
just wouldn't cut for the final feature look.

For an Action animation this was pretty well done, capturing the feel of the pursuit as much as it interest the conditions the character is put in, the animation had some very good moments with good looking effects and compelling atmospheres, the sound quality was brilliant, however the stickman hasn't got a mouth, even a Mime can make more sounds than this character can.
the animation, well yeah.....it's a stickman, so it's simplified but still alot of good effort in the motion was endured in making it effective, such as the top perspective shots, this all adds up for an experienced outcome for the animation.

[ECA: Stop Vagita]

= Omg my testicles just exploded from the awesomenes of that movie *Pop* Pop*

Jesus....Where do i begin? first of all this is exactly how to make entertainment!
This had everything in it, like holy cow, you had everyone in this movie, pretty much.
It's very rare to see a marathon of allstars, on here but the one thing that killed me laughing was pretty much everything!

The animation isn't great, the direction is a roller-coaster of insanity! The plot? lol
the Dora scene was VERY AWKWARD, other than that it was pretty well done, with the allstars of everyone we pretty much know.

The easter egg i'm going to assume is BraveHeart doing the Barrel roll.

NewRandom responds:

The easter egg is not the Barrel roll.
I will give a hint, for those that are interested in it.

It's a kinda hidden episode, content locked up which can be activated by clicking on an certain event.

[DnB Sheep]

= I hate you because i didn't like the video but i Digged the WICKED SICK tune!

That's all i got, but the stuff on your website looks sweet.
As for what was done on this video, it was simply a collaboration of synchronized timing with cut out animals, not really much on the animation, just a fun treat to hear.

BadBoyMcCoy responds:

You can download the track for free, use the link in the author comments.