MrShoeShine7's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[EOFS - Super Trouble]

I am new to this series so I can't speak for the past episodes just yet, but I will admit there are a lot of things I like about it and a lot I have to infer.

First the writing and animation is actually good, surprisingly good. This episodes simple plot is the girls are hanging out and the small one accidentally kicked her ball at a car, the nurse kills the woman from said car and then dragons show up, a shootout ensues and one of them retreats safely. The animation is great, the lip sync is well done and the deaths are entertaining too. The style is an entirely different story, I can tell the eyes are anime inspired, and all the characters have pretty massive breast sizes, which is fine but a lot of the characters look way too similar. For example at 2:02 when the scene changes the two characters look identical except for the slight difference in voice and hair style/color. I gravitated more towards the simple circle-pupil single-colored eyes the characters sometimes have. Gelly Ann is my favorite character, because she has the thick eyeliner you can tell which girl she is, and her voice is quieter than most of the others. I'm hoping you flesh the characters out more with slightly differing designs and shape language to make them stand apart.

Speaking of the voices, all the characters are voiced by guys, and if that's part of the charm I hope you up the quality of the mics eventually. The volume of the lines are sometimes too low, and the music is about the same volume as the lines so native speakers won't be able to hear them. Another thing I wasn't a fan of was the random images that popped up during some of the explanations, I can see what you're going for, the contrast of the girls with something gross or "disgusting" looking is funny, but because they are live action (the roaches the rooster in the grocery store etc.) it takes me out of the cartoon a bit. Same thing for the guns, the flat photos of the guns looked like crap, whereas the scenes where they are loading them and they are drawn at an angle looked great. I wasn't sure why you didn't keep the guns drawn the whole way through unless it was to save on time. I noticed you animated the guns very accurately and I appreciate that, most animators would not show the hammer being pulled back from a pistol.

One thing I did like was the explanations for the text lingo the characters used in Brazilian culture, it was interesting and provided the context I needed to understand it. The english subtitles were on point for the most part, with some occasional grammar issues here and there. The sound effects were good, I think some of the gunshots sound like cap guns. Even if these recordings are real firearms they don't sound real or impactful enough in the animation. I can't complain about the backgrounds either they fit the style of the characters.

I didn't like the other shortcut I noticed the whole way through which was when the characters appeared in the scene (like at 3:02) they spring up instead of actually being animated, whether they are standing, crouching or entering the scene. The ending was bombarded with the memes popping up which was unnecessary, until I noticed the "Biggest EOFS fan" meme which was funny because it had to do with the show. I think those would be best to put on a different platform like twitter or something.
I know this review is a bit of a roller coaster so for the footnotes version,

-I loved the writing, jokes, detail, backgrounds and animation.
-The characters need more diversity.
-The voice acting needs improving.
-The mics are poor quality (and surrounding area might need padding)
-I love Gelly Ann...
-Imagery needs to match the style. (no irl pics)
-Edit the audio a bit so the voices are heard clearly.
-Needs better gun sound effects.
-It could do without the 'spring up' shortcut.
-No more piles of memes. (pls)

TheMiamiDeSantos responds:

wow great review! thank you a lot! hehe, i voice every character. I repeat a lot of stuff like characters and gun sprites in order to save time as i do everything myself. I did gave some special attention to the gun parts detail cuz i love guns. The gunshots sounds are all real, on the youtube description there is proper credit for everything, including the source of the gunshots, being the 32 long, 25acp and 22 long rifle closer to real life recordings, people are used to those hollywood/videogame gun sounds and i tried to make small calibers (25acp, 22lr) sounds quieter than the bigger calibers (38spl, 32long), but that's a good suggestion indeed i think i will try to edit those small calibers sounds to make them sound cooler. Hehe, the meme things is cuz i'm getting some popularity on some facebook underground shitposting scene, i didn't know what to put at the ending so i put that outro with those memes i had saved on my memes folder as a little tribute to my shitposting buddies lol. I'm really glad you did love gelly ann, she is one my best characters indeed, once again thank you a lot for your review!

[FUNKY TOONS: THE 13 LITTLE PIGS 🐷]

This reminds me of MAD the cartoon network version for some reason. It was creative but the style of the images moving around isn't my favorite. However I love the sound effects + some of the voice over was just nutty and stupid haha. Why is the wolf coughing part so funny? It was getting faster and faster and dumber and dumber, in a silly way. I think its funny, but I can imagine other people might think its childish, but the imagery is very, contradicting? I'm not sure how else to describe it.

Mattiyeu responds:

Thanks for your review !
Believe it or not, the coughing is mine lol I caught a bad cold during that period and I thought "might as well use my REAL coughing for that part !" glad you found it funny !


Maybe you'd like the previous cartoon I made "BOOM BAM BOOM", it has the same sense of humor, SFX, etc.. but it's animated with DRAWINGS instead of photos !!
Here's a NG link: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/847287
Or a YouTube link if you'd prefer: https://youtu.be/-jylFFky-bk

[Refrigerator]

I liked this one more than your coffee animation, It had more character and variety in the song. (and best of all no live action) -w-

[Poltergust X-000]

This was worth the wait! You killed it with the detail you wanted to include, there's so much replay value in this. I appreciate you including a track list as well in the desc.

If luigi isn't careful he may rip the very fabric of our reality!

[PLUG & SOCKET [pixelday 2023]]

This is so cute! I love the characters designs, they look so good and the animation is really nice to watch. I really enjoyed this short, I'm glad I saw this and I hope you make more with these lil doods ^^

[Ol 2 Tha Nu]

I liked seeing the rushdown rivals on the tv. It was okay, the pacing is a little bit slow but the voices were good. The art looks awesome.

[Soggy Wet Mattress]

Great song, the video is really simple, I think the style is nice but the animation is pretty minimal. Good job, I know its short but it was not bad!

[Persona 4 Gameboy Demake]

What an awesome turnout. Coming from a non-persona fan, this is so cool to see. The musics great too!

[Day in the Life of a Costco Worker Ep. 1-8]

You make a lot of customer service animations, the comedies great.

[Helm Splitter]

I'm loving the sound effects, but the animation was a little choppy in the quick motions the characters did. I'm not sure if its a stylistic choice for the knights helmet to move? It looks good but felt like a test animation.