Polonium's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dot Dot Dot - Animated]

good job 2,628 newgrounds users

one of the highest initial ratings in the portal's history for tweened text synced to a a humorless readout of a humorless review; bravo, bravo

RicePirate responds:

I could understand ragging on the flash, I could even understand thinking the review was ridiculous, but "humorless readout"..? That surprises me. Humor is subjective, I suppose.

[the Last of the Dashkin]

two somewhat significant gripes

1. if I view this toon with Opera then the movie assumes the .swf is an illegal copy and a watermark obscures the movie; don't force me to use Firefox like that...!

2. your usage of Flash filters like blur and glow was rather vulgar and very processor-unfriendly; I always admired your ability to make things look stunning through traditional-ish methods and not lame digital effects, and you've let me down there

minus a point for each of those annoyances, but otherwise a predictably and consistently amazing job from you yet again

$

chluaid responds:

There's no watermark now. Apologies for the filters deal if it slowed things down for you. I'm making my shorts with video formats in mind these days but this one was pretty much solely for the NG audience. I'll be good from now on ;)

[L'autobus - The bus]

why

does everyone have red pupils? that's vaguely disturbing.

atomicenergy responds:

This is the style! ;)

[It's My Birthday Today]

you

are meant to have other people do this for you, ideally

happy 82nd birthday

Joey-Kazaam responds:

None of my friends have flash, they all just voice act, perhaps they should make an audio portal submission.

[Jumper Stick]

oh wonderful

another movie when stickmen fight on some poorly drawn backgrounds while spouting bytes of 'snappy' dialogue

final scene: two powerful stickmen beat eachother up

I swear, the stick community is the least inspired flash scene since the madness community. There is not a single thing in a single frame of this turd that hasn't been replicated 10, 25, 50 times by other stick animators.

Are you just the same person working at varying degrees of mediocrity? None of you can seem to think of any original ideas. It's just another chunk of passably animated violence with shitty jokes and cardboard characters.

I don't care what your inspirations are, they still don't include anything that makes this toon watchable.

I don't believe that all stick movies are unoriginal, but I do believe that everything should bring something interesting or new to the table at some point.

KorboDuo responds:

fuck off turd of the week

[SW GangstaRap: Chronicles]

you should've

-just PMed tom and asked him for some extra file-size allowance, there's no way he'd turn it down for a classic toon like SWGR. If you had posted all of this at once, you would've got a pretty amazing score and earned yourself massive exposure.

pyropymp responds:

I updated my author's comments. Read for my answers. Sorry if I missed anything before.

[Yoyo vs FLLFFL]

oh whoopee

Sticks, fighting, with no real backstory, playing with eachother in a coy manner. Boy, deja-vu!

Okay, you're VERY good at animating shorts involving sticks fighting with supercharged weapons and powers. But then, so is a gigantic community who submit pretty much the exact same thing, day after day, in a slightly different scenario with slightly different characters and slightly different weapons. The sticks all talk the same, act the same, play out every step of their miserable placeholder lives the same. The only thing that gets this on the frontpage is raw skill, but that's a very small saving grace in this case.

It's high-quality batter in a very old mould and people wouldn't mind seeing some different and exciting templates.

Hyun responds:

Stick figures have feelings too ._.
all you gotta do it beliEEeEEeeeve!!!