StufferofLegends's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pleasure Island 4]

Pleasure Island 4 is nothing short of being stellarly epic! It is by far your best looking flash if you ask me, and I loved how Gooseman went all Spider-man on the man.walrus, dodging his attacks and shooting one snide remark after the other.

It's clearly one of your more action oriented flashes. Sure, some of your other works might have more insanely hilarious dialogue to offer, but this one had its fine share of entertainingly sick utterances as well (Gooseman's response to Manny, Fernando's text). The part that really cracked me up was how Gooseman was avoiding Vera's chaingun fire. The pose he was crawling in killed me, not to mention his head shot. Also, props to Siobhan for her bloodchillingly fierce battle cry!

I have to mention the action scenes as well. Just like in Great Destiny Man 2, you have a great way of balancing between the intensity/speed and digestablility of your fight scenes, enabling them to provide a delightful sensory overload while still being easy to follow (espcially at the scene where Gooseman's pounding the man walrus to the ground). Somehow I also get a Tarantino kind of vibe from PI. Maybe it's because Man vs Man Walrus somehow reminds me of Kill Bill, I can't exacly put my finger around it.

Overall, I'm extremely satisfied with this installment. I was kind of expecting Fernando to have a more active role in the battle, but hey, he did get to slay the foul beast, didn't he? It was a great way of returning to the greasy crew. I can't decide whether I like this or Donut Quest better. So much pure, liquified awesome... I'm quite sure the 'grounders will dig it, and, as always, I'm looking forward to your future projects. Thanks for all the juicy fun!

Sexual-Lobster responds:

thanks again, dude. not sure if i already mentioned this but siobhan was pleased because i entirely recycled her battle cries from great destiny man 2.

["The Worst"]

That was pretty intense! It was really amazing how this flash has managed to evoke such conrtoversial feelings from me: I was simultaneously admiring your great art style and animation AND (initially) shocked by the brutality of it all.

I don't know if this was supposed to be a mere tour de force of animating know how and daring gore from your side, but I thing it could be a good satyre of the primitive, lack luster ways of entertainment industry: the cheap satisfying ot the mob's hunger for shock value and primitive spectacle (maybe looking at freaks in order to distract themselves from their own deficiencies) and the indifference and non sensitiveness from the consumers' side. It also had some meta aspect if you ask me: How different am I from the fictional viewers of this abusive freak show, and how dies it reflects on my habits of entertainment?

One negative thing might be the overusage of shocking, brutal scenes, but not in the way you might first think: After the first two minutes of remorseless massacre I've just got used to the overwhelming gore and simply stopped caring. It's like when a singer tries to stress every not with fancy vibrati and gracing note, not letting the song breathe and ending up with none of the notes getting any stress at all.

Hmmmmm, comparing this senseless act of violence to singign might give people the impression of me being a psychopath, so let me give a more suitable comparison: it's like in comic book events such as Countdown to Final Crisis or Ultimatum, where so many characters die so abruptly and meaninglessly that all of a sudden you simply stop caring.

Nevertheless, it was a stimulatingly controversial peice of work, beautifully crafted yet contentially abhorring, great desing and art style, with zero compromises. It deserves attention.

Sherbalex responds:

high five

[ECLIPSE FORCE]

Really liked this one. Sure, it was a pretty standard cop buddies/superhero story, but I think it was pretty cool for what it was. There are a lot more cliché animations at newgrounds that get praise (looking at you, Alien Report!), and I liked the jokes a lot generally. The visual effects were great, problalby the strongest part of your flash. I only wish the antagonist would've got a bit more text and personality, you can't have enough witty/cheesy banter in a superhero flick now, can you? All in all, though, it was highly enjoyable.

[Opium Cop]

Apparently, crime is FUCKED! Love the animation as well as the elevated perspective from which our hero views our not so perfect world. The noir touch was great too, and I was glad to hear at least one epic moan in this flash. God knows we need more moans in our not so child-friendly cartoons. You also receive bonus points for the Milk of The Manwhore-esque music at the end

Sexual-Lobster responds:

cheers, stuffer!

[Knife Dance]

How difficult I've found masturbating to this, you ask? Well, let's just say that I never thought that I have my own organic web shooter. Better go swing around Manhattan...

Sexual-Lobster responds:

regarding the possibility of masturbating, that is something i would never doubt of you.

[Superman vs Goku]

Fantaastically hilarious flash, well done! Too bad that the resulting Goku vs Supes flame war in the review\comment section makes it feel as if I'm at ComicVine...

[Dancebreak!]

You do realize you could make craploads of money by selling the Monkey Scorpion to Nintendo as a new Pokémon breed? Hell, it could inspire its own video game: Pokémon Brown! I can already see it:

Monkey Scorpion used Sensual Face Rape... it was super effective!

By the way, who was doing the monkey's lines?

Sexual-Lobster responds:

mostly me, with some real monkey mixed in. its actually really hard on your throat, or mine anyway, to do a convincing monkey sound.

[P vs Z]

Don't trust them new penguins over there!

This was just plain too lovely to leave without a comment, such a wonderful, well paced chain of ever escalation WTF moments, and the cut-out-paper animation style was so neat! The frozen stares and motionlessness even added to the whole thing's absurdity. Highy entertaining!

[The Steven Seagal Show #2]

I just watched this with my buddies before a big Steven Seagal marathone. It really set the mood, although I really wish Seagal's movies would contain at least a fracture of the sheer crystalized amazingness of your flashes. The only bad thing I can think about is not giving any lines to Mr. Stallone. A marvelous mumbler!