SergeantLuke's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Rayman Legends]

This is absolutely fantastic! The dialogue-free physical humor is supremely Raymanesque, and all of the art (from the characters to the backgrounds to the animation to the music) is utterly gorgeous and a perfect blend of Mickey Mouse goofiness with Studio Ghibli beauty.

Ubisoft made a damn good choice when they commissioned this from you. You truly understand what makes Rayman so fantastic.

[Legend of Link]

Ugh. Using a sexy image to artifically increase your views is one of the sleaziest tactics I can think of, especially when it's barely even in the actual animation. You already started to lose me there. But that's ultimately irrelevant, so let's move on.

On a technical level, I appreciate the art. All of the characters and scenery are accurate to the games while still looking unique and with a great color scheme (looks especially good in YouTube's HD!). The animation is uneven, sometimes looking great and sometimes looking really mediocre, though I won't hold that against you too bad since you warned us about it.

I mostly didn't like the writing. The jokes were the sort that you see in basically every Zelda parody, like the whole deadly Cuccos thing or the monsters speaking intelligently to each other (without actually saying anything interesting). The post-credits part with the Goron was pretty ironic, since it mocks overused Zelda-parody cliches even though we just saw a number of them played straight. And I know I said that the animation was good (and it was), but man, I cringed when the Moon did the Troll-Face and when Link screamed to the heavens. I got sick of those kinds of jokes years ago!

That said, I did chuckle at the blue flame burning away her own earplugs and the guy going "click-click" instead of actually cocking the gun. Those were good jokes!

This is good animation, though I'm surprised that it was a year's work, but the writing just wasn't there. Even if you had the best animation I'd ever seen on NG, it wouldn't have made up for the myriad of dull and unfunny gags.

[Pik Your Battles]

I agree, there really aren't enough Pikmin parody cartoons! Seeing as how the internet at large has a colossal boner for Mario, Zelda, and Pokémon cartoons, you have to wonder why this one Nintendo property has slipped under the radar thus far.

You've certainly done a decent job of taking up the torch, though! I really like the art, with its crisp and clean lines, bright colors, and smooth animation. You rendered the Pikmin well.

That said, I felt like a lot of the jokes would only really be funny if the viewer had played the games, especially the in-joke references to other video games I wasn't fond of the voice acting. No offense to Micah, of course, but the recording was slightly muffled and the acting was a bit stilted.

Entirely solid work!

[Superman V Goku]

Not bad. The colors were pretty flat but the drawings themselves were suitable, and they looked a lot like the real characters. Though the animation was choppy-looking, there was still a lot going on and it was visually interesting. I found it rather weird that Superman was in there even though everyone else was an anime character, but that's not really a complaint. Overall this is pretty good for being simple practice.

[Metropolis Mayhem]

Man, there's just something about Sonic, isn't there?

Good stuff! The voice acting kind of varied in quality from "good" to "meh", and most of them couldn't sing, but this song is the sort that is way funnier if it sounds lousy, so that's totally okay! The animation was really good in general, and I'm impressed with the length. Seven minutes of consistently good content is hard to pull off even with collabs.

[.:Smile:.]

"Ultra-violent ponies!" and "Pinkie is a murderer!" are both tropes that are WAAAYYYY overplayed, but I gotta admit, you've still managed to do something with it. The animation is fantastic and staggeringly on-model (sometimes I worry that parents will see these things and think they're an actual part of the show! ;D), and the visuals work really well with the remixed song (which is ALSO feckin' great!).

I'm jaded about Pony parodies since there're so many of them, but man, did you make me laugh a lot. Applejack's glee at Rarity's death was funny in the most unsettling way, as was Pinkie's on-beat punches and AJ's ludicrously mutilated face afterwards. I loved when the visuals matched up with the lyrics, too, even if it... waaaaasn't exactly how Daniel Ingram intended ("I love to see you beam, beam, beam," as Pinkie fires out a giant energy beam? Priceless!).

If I may ask, were you ever involved with the show for real? Your animation is just so spot-on that it's freaky!

[SCP-173 (Claymation Short)]

That's a very nice model of 173, good job! I wouldn't really call this a "parody" by my own definition of the word, since it doesn't make fun of 173 or the foundation in any way, but it's a pretty fitting tribute, if a little simplistic.

[SCP-682 (Claymation Short)]

This isn't great, but I gotta admit, I find it hard to dislike. The voice acting of the two guys was only decent, and the animation was very basic with haphazard-looking models, but I really love your rendition (I'm assuming you created the audio) of 682's voice, which is probably the best I've ever heard. He sounds very robotic and droning, completely inhuman, and scary as hell!

I probably wouldn't have enjoyed this as much if I wasn't an SCP fan, but damn it, I am, and I really liked this short! So good for you!

[PleaseDiePie]

I could have done without all of the "gay" insults (oh no! GAY! Being gay is the WORST thing to be! Oh god, if he was gay he'd just be EVIL!), but otherwise, this is spot-on. PewDiePie (as well as the majority of his seventh-rate imitators) is horrible.

[How a thunderstorm works]

For some reason, really dumb jokes are suddenly a lot funnier when cartoon clouds are doing it. Like, if these were people, a simple fart joke wouldn't be funny at all. But when it's a freaking cloud, that GROWS A BUTT so it can fart, it's so absurd that it's hysterical! Also: for some reason, I found it really funny that they had shadows on the sky. They're in the middle of the sky, why are they casting a shadow? Even if it was just a mistake or something, it actually turned out pretty well!