ChrisMckiernan's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Black Crystal - Episode Prologue: "Lighting the Spark"]

The effort and time spent on this really shows.
Excellent animations, camera angles, quick cuts, long shots, and beautiful backgrounds.
The story is well made....

But its cliche.

The story resembles every trending anime series that has ever came out in the past 10 years.

Some young apprentice who's full of himself and learning that he has new powers and there's more to himself than he originally thought.
(blue exorcist, bleach, naruto, etc.)

"Kuro" (Which translates to black in japanese) (So his name is black, that's really original)

Then there's the older authority figure that acts like he doesn't give a fuck and has ulterior motives, but you won't know them yet.
(samurai x, neon genesis evangelion, full metal alchemist, etc.)

"Fire punches"
Energy balls, lazer beams, blasts coming from fists.
Its all been done before.

I'm not sure if the video game 8 bit or 16 bit graphic effect was intentional but it did not match well with the realistic style animation you had in your video.

Don't get me wrong,
the animation especially during the fight scenes was top-notch professional quality.
Though that "old video game-esque" video or graphic quality really subtracted from the great animation you had in this.

Overall,
This is incredible professional expert level animation and camera work.
The story made sense but wasn't very original.

[Catra From HR | Kitty Koupons]

This was great, reminded me of "Archer" or something I'd see on adult swim.

I like the humor in this.
Really nice video quality and good animation.

My only gripe are "the hands" on Catra and Jeff.
They look really weird and unrealistic.

WORK ON DEM HANDZ!

Really nice otherwise:)

[Fernando and the Disk of Chaos]

I was wondering when I'd see another "sexual lobster" video again.

Original and funny just like all the others.
A beagle named "Shaniqua".. simply amazing.

Really nice animation, video quality, etc.

Sexual-Lobster responds:

thanks!

[LADIES AND GENTLEMEN]

I don't know what the hell is going on, but I like it.

"Illiterates using a ouija board"... genius

[The Sergio Show Episode #56]

Animation, backgrounds, and lip sync need a lot of work.

Three minutes talking about Empanadas, wheres the humor in that?
Why is it interesting and why does it even matter?

[The Sergio Show Episode #55]

Voice acting is good.

I thought the 2 minutes of that that technical difficulties image was incredibly lazy.
When there was actual animation going on in this, it wasn't very good.

[Spark Ball Episode 4 (Part 1)]

The voice acting and audio was good.

The backgrounds were more detailed than the characters themselves.
The characters were just moving black blobs, no different really from stick figure animations.

[Scavenging Dog]

i can see the effort that went into this and it really shows.
The whole "dark and brooding" vibe is interesting.

The animation in this looked simple, flat, and had no sense of depth or complexity.

This is the slowest paced video I've ever seen on newgrounds.

[Jaycartoons: The Last of the Jaycartoons]

Not a fan fan of stick figure animations.

Lip sync was good.

I wish the drawings were animated and not just the stick figure characters.