jthrash's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Bowser Brings Back Toad]

I'm just surprised how much this animation messed with my expectations. First, I was caught off-guard that the initial conversation was about Toad getting rehab instead of getting captured by Bowser or something you would expect from the family-friendly universe of Super Mario. Then I was shocked to see it turn into an impromptu parody of one of my favorite moments of the recent Smiling Friends season, complete with a perfect recreation of the scene's odd animation movement style in 3D. I wasn't expecting the tragic ending for these characters, and the surprisingly genuine and heartfelt message of peace in the New Year (You OK, bro? Seasonal depression getting to you right now?).

I guess imitating Smiling Friend's animation style exposed the limits of your Bowser 3D rig in particular, but otherwise, 12/10 animation to start the New Year! Kept me guessing and made me laugh every single time the writing messed with my expectations!

[Koishi Project]

For some reason, all these amazing indie animators across Newgrounds and YouTube decided to release all of their best animations of the year in the final weeks of 2024, and I'm all here for the quality overload!

[the Quest of Ms. Pac-Man]

This was completely worth the long wait!

...But I hope you remember to THINK next time before you set off to make a massive, potentially-soul-destroying solo animation, bakka! This was fantastic, but you shouldn't have to hurt yourself just to put out these longer animations! At least hire one other person to do the inks for you and share the workload next time!

Also, Clyde was always my favorite of the ghosts, you did him justice, here!

HOwLiNG-MAdFoxHatter responds:

Am happy to hear! : D and yeah Clyde is best ghost~

If I could I would love to bring in other animators onto my projects, alas unless major things change that option will be forever out of my reach, for sure am planning to embrace more limited animation tricks

[Bridge Kids: One Man's Trash]

These kids are proof that evolution and "natural selection" might be a hoax. They're probably going to survive all this and grow up to spread their weak, brain-dead genes to the next generation of humanity, regardless of whatever Charles Darwin had to say about it.

[Monkey Wrench Ep4 - Plague Walker]

Just watch the damn episode so that Monkey Wrench, the only thing my 30-year-old, stone-cold heart still "fanboys" about, finally gets the attention it deserves and will continue to get new episodes until the day Zeurel dies...maybe a little bit after, too.

Seriously, this is BY FAR my single favorite indie cartoon ever and it MUST continue!

[The Early Worm]

These are the best types of cartoons, Tom and Jerry-style! Great, mindless fun.

I guess my only feedback is that, perhaps in a future animation or assignment with a less strict deadline, you could REALLY push the funny faces and snappy pose-to-pose cartoon animation more. Basically, exaggerate quite a bit more to make everything look more ridiculous!

[HIDDEN SWITCH FEATURE | SCIENCE ZONE!]

Dr. Wetfoot...

Wish I could be...

Part of Your WOOOOOOOORRRRRRLLLLD...

[EPISODE 3 | SCIENCE ZONE!]

The thumbnail reminds me of the box art for Sonic 3, but uglier.

[Advil | Science Zone EP 2]

Why didn't he have Advil in the first episode, then his brain wouldn't have hurt as much and we could have heard his cool science fact he had planned then!

[Head Hurt | Science Zone EP 1]

The dialogue reminds me of Smiling Friends while the character design looks like one of the monsters in the Silent Hill 2 remake I'm playing these days. Let me know if Konami and/or Bloober Team hit you up for new monster designs...