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[Adolf Hitler: ATWI80D 80]

The end.

The series has come to a close, but who could have possibly predicted that this flash would cause some much contrevery and hate, as well as receiving plenty of compliments from die hard fans of this "series."

I honestly thought nothing of the series, knowing that since all the episodes followed the same template, that viewers would most likely ignore the submission, or vote low and move on. Obviously, I was wrong. I think the haters were the driving force that kept the series alive. With no one hating it or bringing to public view through various hate threads or PMs, making 80 of these flash movies would become even more repetitve and boring.

Therefore, <3 to all the haters, Star Syndicate especially, as well as the lovers, whose comments are always hilarious to read.

Moving on to this submission, it's really quite entertaining, and being a grand finale of a series of 80, something special just HAD to be done. The most suprising part of the submission is that after the intro, it doesn't just go right to a victory scene. That's right, flash animation at its finest is jam-packed into this submission.

The movement of Hitler as he bobs towards the goal line is nothing but pure hilarity, and this scene turns out to be one of the most amusing in the flash.

Once Hitler crosses the goal, there's yet ANOTHER suprise laying in wait for the viewer. An EGB scene is then presented, after a great transitional sequence. What the suprise is, is combination of both Afro_Stud's and my own efforts to bring you an image so orgasmic, that you can't help but admire the beauty of it.

That's right, amazing drawings of Phantom, Dream-Of-Duke, and Hot-And-Charming, coupled with voice acting that will, to put it simply, BLOW YOUR MIND. Those who know not of the EGB may not find this scene as hilarious as intended, but should instead immediatly go out and do research on what the EGB is, in order to understand the deep complexities of the joke.

And this submission would not be complete without the ending scene of course. The final image of Hitler is then shown, as Hitler has made it back to Germany after suffering such hardships along the way. The music, instead of a light hearted "Sex on the Beach" is "We are the Champions," which gives the end a much more dramatic tone and mood.

The song fits the end of the series perfectly, because Hitler kept on fighting. He kept on fighting to the end, my friend. And he is the champion today. Thank you.

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

An Oscar winner is you.

[Bahamut N' koreaman 01]

What not again.

The system never fails does it? Same intro, same thing that passes every time. Amazing, really. The easily recognizable gang of authors and intro cause seasoned b/pers to cast an eyeroll and a vote of 2 or more for an easy point. And then the people who find the image unbelievably hilarious and creative go ahead and vote 5.

Funny.

This was one of your first photoshops I believe; what with the picture from june of last year and the outdated stats of bahamut. Plus it features that sig I made a while ago.

Amazingly this was pretty good photoshop work on your part, what with the matching of text and color, and overall it's pretty convincing looking. Most people have tough times making the text look good.

So I gave you a 5 for graphics because it was decent work but nothing special in terms of effort. Photoshopping text is always simple.

Your style is repetitive - one frame and a re-used intro. It's not original and it's getting stale, so you get a 2. Come up with something new, maybe after the hitler around the world series finishes.

The sound is like the style. It's reused everytime. Get a new themesong. Treat your viewers to something new. Even flashes made to spam the portal could still be interesting to listen to at least. 2/10

And a point for humor because the picture is probably funny. Probably.

That adds up to ten so there you go. A review of ten. HOW EXCITING.

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

It wasn't a photoshop. It was a screenshot taken by Tom Fulp.

[Adolf N' Woodrow 01]

Review: Adolf N' Woodrow 01

Ahem.

This submission, although lacking in length and substance, comes through as something quite wholesome in the end.

From the very start, the main idea is made clear through pictures of the two characters who were mentioned in the title. The font on the title screen also fits nicely, giving the animation a very needed touch of class.

I loved the way the play button increased in size when the mouse was hovered over it, which, again, shows important attention to detail in the flash creation. The background, while not detailed, is a nice shade of green and the gradient gives the background an extra something, which is not noramlly seen in many mass produced flash animations today. Truely excellent to behold, the soft background combined with the rest of the intro screen, already show the flash is nothing less of a masterpiece.

Pressing the play button allows the viewer to watch the pinnacle of flash animation. Different backgrounds are introduced through clever blur and fade effects, which are masterfully done. This part of the flash is the real eye candy, and it in no way dissapoints.

The fonts used for "Adolf" and "Woodrow" were amazing picks to fit the flash animation, and the way the pictures zoomed in according to the background song was great.

Moving on from the amazing introduction animation, we get to the actual flash, which, while short, is still amazing at the least. Many people say great things come in small packages. These people are most certainly correct.

The humorous picture is presented with a just as funny song as background music to enhace the hilarity of the scene. The picture is also cleverly photoshopped, but to the naked eye, no connections to photo manipulation could possibly be made.

Overall, the flash is amazing, and deserves much more recognition. Even one million views would not be enough to appease the greatness which is Adolf N' Woodrow 01.

I can't WAIT for the next episode, I'm sure it will be just as great, even if this is nearly impossible to top. Seriously, great work to all the authors, they all played their part in the creation of this masterpiece.

AfroUnderscoreStud responds:

Thanks for the incredibly in-depth review :O

"The picture is also cleverly photoshopped, but to the naked eye, no connections to photo manipulation could possibly be made."

WAY TO BIG YOURSELF UP! :P

"Overall, the flash is amazing, and deserves much more recognition. Even one million views would not be enough to appease the greatness which is Adolf N' Woodrow 01."

You got that right.

"Seriously, great work to all the authors, they all played their part in the creation of this masterpiece."

What about Major_punk?

lawl the only one

Thanks again for the review

<3

[-MASS-]

Very nice work.

I really enjoyed it, for both it's more obvious and deeper meanings, not to mention the great art styles and animation.

The story is simplistic at face value, but you really tell it well, providing a nice look into how the people who aren't as deserving, but come up with a single good idea, overshadow the other artists who try hard but never get noticed. I liked the cameos to newgrounds such as the scoring for the artwork, and the administrator's name. It seems you were comparing the artist who made all the money to illwillpress, with providing a few specific details along the way, including the scene when the artist hears about a hurricane, and then goes to make a drawing about it. Other things include how the character the artist created always rants about hating things, and his fanboys attack anyone who insults his work.

The drawing style was really unique, and the way you use very light/happy colors for the one artist, while using an oppisite color style for the other, more negative artist. It shows your attention to detail when creating the movie.

Your drawings for the characters for the most part were pretty simple, and not to detailed, but they are still well done nonetheless. The t-shirt company person really freaked me out the first time I saw it though. Some of the flashes between scenes with the subliminal words were kind of annoying though. I liked most of your backgrounds, as many of them seemed to have a nice pastel look to them, which was interesting to watch.

The music wasn't something that I would listen to, because it's not really my taste, oh well.

Overall it's a very well made movie that pays a lot of attention to detail when setting the mood, and has a very good message to those artists or animators who get left in the dust.

ZekeySpaceyLizard responds:

Thank you very much!

[Tails and his GBA 2]

Wow, nice job with the sprites!

This series is turning out very well, I enjoy it very much :) By the way, this is a review for both sonic and his gba one and two combined.

The graphics in the series are all sprites for the most part, and although it's always hard to make good looking movies using sprites, this series is done very well, and everything is smooth and flows well. I'm also pretty sure that you made some of the sprites you used in this series, and that must take a lot of effort. At some parts of the movies, like in front of tails house, near the end of the zelda scene, etc, you zoom in on the chatacters, causing them to become very pixelated, which makes it hard to see the movie. The idea for the movies is indeed interesting, but watching these movies, it seems that you came up with a good idea, and then use different video game sitituations to come up with gags. Overall, it makes the movies thus far predictable, and full of random humor thrown in all over the place. Scene "???" anyone??? ;) I don't know if you're planning on doing anything to actually form a real plot through these, but it could be nice if you tie the movies in the series together through an underlying plot, instead of just random humor.

The scene selection screen and the right click bar were great additions to the movie that allowed you to navigate it with ease. The two ending parts of the movies are also pretty cool, but you must realize that everyone that even remotely enjoys this movie is going to be watching them both. Maybe you could add a button that reads "both" so you can watch both endings in a row, instead of doing all that work of going to the scene selection screen and picking the next ending :p

The movies are also pretty funny overall. Video game humor might not be the most exciting or deep, but it always works for quite a few jokes, as tails and his comrade for the day explore different video games, causing trouble for the respective characters in the games.

Overall, I thought it was a fun movie to watch, and although it's not the most memerable or unpredictable series, you'll still be able to enjoy yourself while watching.

RupeeClock responds:

Just one thing, when you do series you should review individual submissions.

Usually the humor is just made to be humor with a small plot, no plot is really there until they are there.

I'd like to do a "both" thing but well, I don't have the actionscript knowledge, lol.

Thanks for the review, it was REALLY helpful!

[feather]

Very strange.

It started out quite peaceful and then all of a sudden a bird dies, kills a mouse and then a plane falls out of the sky too. What the heck was that all about? The shading on the trees was good but I didn't like the drawing of the plane that much. I wasn't sure of the meassage you were trying to get across in this, if any, but it wasn't that bad of a movie nonetheless. The music overlaps it's self if you replay, so you might want to fix that.

Mr-dude-2nd responds:

Yea thx for the review, but im lazy and never plan on fixing it lol. No one ever get around to this flash anyway.

[a short about pandas]

That was...strange but good.

Hmm, that was interesting. I liked the graphics and the sound effects, yet confused about this flash. You say panda's are going to rule the war because they can fly? Well, I'm not going to worry about the plot of this short because it's made just for fun and not to be taken seriously. Or is it? By the way, the replay button didn't work for me, it goes to the start, but there's no play button. I also saw your subliminal message: Panda's are gay bears. Do you hate panda's or not...

pistoldisco responds:

You kidding me? Pandas are frickin' awesome and if they could fly, no doubt they'd rule the world.

[Goldencatilium]

Three letters sums this up, lol

This was very amusing. It made me laugh pretty hard during the end with the fail picture and your rap. It's too bad there wasn't any voice acting for the rap, it might of made it funnier, but since you're doing a parody of something without voices, not much you can do about that. The drawings weren't that good, but it didn't matter because the rap made up for it...in a way. The ending was pretty egotistical with the goldencat wins picture, but that's how most rap artists are, they just love rapping about themselves. Not the best flash, but it sure was funny.

Protocol2319 responds:

thank you.

[Introducing RupeeClock]

Yep, another clock movie

Yay, another clock to add to the infinite amounts of clocks out there. However, this movie was quite good and I liked it a lot. The animation was fine, and I liked the music too. This isn't exactly original because there are a lot of clock movies out there, but I still hope to see more. I really didn't find themovie that funny, but after finding the easter egg, I was hysterical. Maybe you could make that a game, that would be awesome.

RupeeClock responds:

It would make a pretty good game actually, but I don't know any action script. :'(

Thanks for the review!

[Man]

Looks like something good

This looks good, the walking looked ok too. What kind of movie is this going to be? A music video? It kinda seems that way but you could always change it. If you're going to keep the black and white color sceme, you might want to outline the man with a different color so he doesn't look like he gets combined with the background.

kikkimikki responds:

Thanks for the advice
Maybe I should do that