TharosTheDragon's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Killgar's Kode - HOW TO SURVIVE ANYTHING]

The tough guy facade reminds me of Lego Batman

[Pokemon Colosseum: A New Adventure in the Shadows]

I definitely thought the guy at 1:07 was making out with his pokemon

[Order of Operation: No Evil 048]

I admire you so much for keeping the series going after all these years. I can't think of any of other Newgrounds series that has lasted this long

[Clone High Reanimated: A ROPE OF SAND]

Heyyy nice German keyboard at 5:44

[There's a Fire in The Building]

Chairman Mao approves

[PIKMIN BITS: Auto-Lock Assault]

It's good stuff by why upload in portrait orientation when the animation looks like it's intended to be landscape?

[Valentine's Day Bear]

Nice to see the "lesbians" tag used in something other than porn

Artcompany responds:

Yeah it sucks that any associated with lesbians is basically gonna get overrun by porn. Not that there's anything wrong with porn but sometimes you want SFW ya know.

[SPEEDMAN]

The animation quality is 10/10 amazing. The characters emote and gesticulate so naturally. I'm just pretty confused about the story. During the propaganda segment at the beginning, I thought you were setting up some kind of Starship Troopers-style satire where we later see that they were wrong about the octopus people, but then all we ever see of the octopus people is that they're a bunch of jerks after all. Then we get a setup where Speedman is an old cripple before he gets his powers, but there's no payoff for that because his feelings as a superhero are never examined. And that makes it all the more confusing when he goes berserk and attacks the scientists.

Bowz responds:

Great call out! I think unfortunately the Starship Trooper style intro and the Super Hero genre can preload expectations on how the story will play out.
The goal of the intro was to show the world is at war with an invading force, and there's a call to arms. This is why Speedman was created.
Speedman was meant to be a super hero to save the planet, but he was never actually heroic. All his actions where self indulgent, serving his ego and desires. In the end he lost control and went berserk with no reason to stop. He fully indulged in the intoxicating high of power. They never really knew who they were giving all this power to. Turns out it was a crippled maniac.

As a main character he does leave a lot to be desired. We never really get to know him and I can see how that's unsatisfying. We should have someone to connect with more.

This is going to be a series, so Speedman's story isn't over. It's more of a prelude to the series, and I agree it's not perfect as a stand a lone short.

Thanks for your comment!! I appreciate the more critical reviews.

[Punk Ass Pirate Donkey]

Punk ass = punk jackass = punk donkey
Bad ass = bad jackass = bad donkey

[Ace Soda | FULL Indie Animated series]

Why no voice credits?

lpart responds:

The voices were all done by me, with the acceptation of my wife who voiced Emma