Gustavos's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pokemon PoopBrown Version]

"I came when I heard you beat the elite four"

There's something about pokemon that makes it feel fresh every installment. The games, not the show. Each generation gets slightly better writing, and thus, less material to make fun of, so it only makes sense for people to write parodies based off their first experiences, the first generation. And after at least a decade since those games, the evil Team Rocket and their subsequent replacements are still lame, and Professor Oak is still creepy. Pokemon parodies have been done a lot, especially in Flash animation, so the main concern with writing them is not how to make them funny, but how to keep them fresh, the way each pokemon game is supposed to feel fresh.

This parody was a bit different. Instead of a "Pokemon Abridged"-esque tale, we were given a plot as well as a comedy. Albeit one that differs from standard Pokemon shenanigans. I don't think the music and pop culture references helped the theme here, but they were entertaining. I really liked how you made use of sprites from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It seems like that would be a given for a pokemon sprite movie, but I've yet to see somebody use them until now. The voice acting wasn't stellar, in my opinion. In that none of them could compare to skitty's voice actor. Overall, this movie isn't totally different from previous Pokemon parodies, but I think it stands out among them. Nice work, Esty.

Eastbeast responds:

I can relate to that alot to what you wrote, thank you :) I wanted to make something different based on old ideas my friends used to throw around. I kind of wanted it to be a comedy that people could see the same humor with their friends, and experiences, playing a pokemon game for the first time. The humor here was also fun and expiremental, just to see how rediculous I could make things while maintaining an interesting plot. I'm more interested in actual drawing animation now, so if I did come back to this series, it might be in that type of style. Thank you for your review, I am looking forward to working with you on the Pikmin Collab. :) p.s I AM skitty. haha (voice changer) as well as all the pokemon, I don't know why I didn't put that in the credits? haha slipped my mind.

[Wilhelm Park]

Good lord

My mind must really be fucked up if I actually predicted what would happen at the end.

Regardless, this animation is on par with only Newgrounds' finest. A great play on horror stories and incredible soundwork. I'm glad you took your time on it after all.

[The Christmas Journey]

Where is JEJ and WW?

How ghey, you didn't even get everybody in. :|

lolololololololool

[The Crissmiss Collab]

it be christmas ok

Jesus...this was absolutely, positively spectacular. The music choice, the animation, the visuals. Is it too late to be picking out nominations for NG Tank awards. This couldn't have been done better in any way. Inception has nothing on this. I can tell you that.

[7 Deadly Mega Mans]

Clever

A nice take on the Seven Deadly Sins.

[Crooktooth EPS1]

This takes me back

Not just because it's like those old kiddy cartoons with those piano soundbytes and soundtrack and G rating, but because I remember when this movie was just a lonely script.

...*sniff* They grow up so fast...

Joeylicious responds:

Yuppir