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[Star Wars: DD Episode II]

Pretty dull if you ask me

Alright, according to the author of this flash film it takes place 500 years after the destruction of Death Star II. Amazingly, this doesn't seem to prevent Darth Vader from still being very much alive and evil, despite the fact that he died after his life-sustaining suit stopped working because of the damage he took from Emperor Sidious' lethal Sith lightning. Was this story written by an 8 year old?

And then we come to the poor excuse of animation, which is pretty much just a bunch of gradient-filled motion tweens moving at a painfully choppy framerate (nice hyperspace effect, by the way). In a desperate attempt to find a positive thing about the graphics, I'll say that you drew the characters and ships pretty well.

Nice try, but no cigar.

dragon-fist responds:

I'll just try to see the bright side of your review and thank your for saying my hyper space effect looks nice. Ow that Darth Vader guy it's just someone who just wants to be like Darth Vader.

By the way this is part 2 so you'll see the pre-history in part one, it's not submitted but it'll come soon enough I think!

Thanks for the review anyway!:D

[Gary Colman for Governor]

Um...

First of all, and this is for DroopyA; sure, it was wrong for Dedwrench to behave so stupidly. But that's no reason to start spewing out lame gay jokes. Tears For Fears just so happens to be one of the coolest groups/duos of the 80's, I wonder if you've even heared one of their songs. By the way, "Spirited Away" is not a Disney movie, that's "SPIRIT".

On to the flash itself. I thought the dutch speaking was hilarious, but can't really appreciate the Coleman humour in your way cause I've never really watched much of his stuff. But hey, I laughed plently and that's gotta be worth a few points.

Voxton responds:

I’m confused (and that’s apart from the off-topic Tears for Fears and Spirited Away debate) – you thought some part of this movie was actually hilarious, and you also laughed plenty, and then you only gave it a 3?

There are plenty of Flash animators here, who are way better than me, so I can understand that my stuff might not impress everyone. But if someone is critical, I sometimes look at their profile, to see if they’ve made Flash movies of their own. Because I figure maybe they gave me a low vote because they’re that much better than me – an I like to check out their movies, to see if I can learn something. Because I figure, it’s a good thing, to try to improve ourselves. It’s not that I think only people who make Flash movies themselves, should comment on other movies. But I DO think that animators sometimes understand it better, because they know first-hand, how hard and time-consuming it is.

Well I looked at yours, and I think it’s very cool that you’re making Flash movies – congrats on learning Flash, and keep at it, dude. And I’d hate to be critical here, but considering the quality of your own stuff, I’m puzzled you’d award this one a 3, especially it gave you plenty to laugh at, you know…?

[Cold Fusion]

Hehe

Pretty crappy, but for some reason I laughed at how cheesy it was.

AlanMidas responds:

that was the whole point
i'll consider my mission accomplished

[horton hears a fuck you]

You rule!

HAHA! That's so funny... and you're swedish, just like me!

Freeemelker responds:

NOOOO! im funnish! sutti pluttilainen ´MOTHER FUCKER!!!!

[DOE]

Wow

That's some pretty impressive frame-by-frame animation. I reckon it would fit well in a music video :)

smokeshow responds:

hehe thanks... I'd like to make a music video but it would end up being just to damned big for newgrounds :( as you can see the file size is 1443k with just 2 minutes of play with frame-by-frame... :(

[Brutality]

Holy shit!

Now THAT's what I call flash animation! It runs really smooth too! Have you ever thought about teaming up with OrtizAnimations for some project? You two seem to be the perfect mix for a kick ass move. Anyway, this stuff is great!

McFretN responds:

You must be a prophet or something!