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[Carl's Junior]

LOL

I've never been to a Carl's, or seen one of their commercials, but what you have here is the closest thing to comedy genius I have seen this week. Make more. =]

[Bart's new board (clay)]

Gimme a break.

nearly 4 Megs for this? SHEESH. This is a steaming turd of a movie, and while it isn't entirely blam-worthy, I could think of a million ways it could be better.

But I'm only going to list a few.

1) Get rid of the HIGH QUALITY on the background music. That is half the reason why this file's size is so HUGE. You can reduce the audio quality to get a smaller file. Now, you might argue that the high-quality audio lends to the overall value of the movie, but let's just be honest. The movie is bad. The music isn't yours. And I would have given you at least a two if you had compressed the audio. As it stands, I gave you a zero.

2) The rough soundbytes of bart speaking don't fit with the action (with the exception of 'aye carumba!'), and their low quality sounds even worse when played over the high quality BG music I just went on a rant about. And the voice acting for who/whatever that other thing was didn't fit at all, and was completely indecepherable.

3) You have a long way to go if you want to make any claymation movies worth watching. For example, in this movie, it looks like bart zips around on his board, then takes some pac-man ghosts to a rastafarian before skating off again. Why not try sticking to original characters?

[The Truth About NG]

Interesting...

But also a little to easily misunderstood. I wonder how many people thought this was a serious flash?

In any event, it was well done, so you get props for that.

OGM CONSPIRACIE!!!!1

[Join the Service!]

LOL

Thanks! That made my day. =]

[CSI: Sheridan]

Not bad....

The girl with the red hair... what? You say? That's a GUY?
The style is interesting, and you get points for that, but all of the characters look extremely androgynous.

Extremely androgynous. Ok? I can suggest a million ways to remedy that (smaller eyes, bigger arms, a different hair style...), but you're the artist, so I leave it to you to find something that you'd be satisfied with.

The sound is alright, but I kept thinking a little more background noise (music?) would be nice. Also, the 'secret button' doesn't work for me. Even after reloading, it didn't work.

Having said all that, Please... FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.... OR CHEETOHS, IF YOU'RE AN ATHIEST... DON'T DISABLE THE FLASH MENU! Seriously. It's annoying to have to watch a flash over again because you were distracted by someone or something in the middle of the movie. If you're going to disable the menu, at least give the user an out. Provide a set of play, pause, rewind buttons or something.

[Dad's Home]

HAHAHAH

This is the funniest thing I have seen in weeks!

Kudos!

[Dig that .44]

Here's a handy lil tip for you:

On that last frame, the one with the morals...
Add this action to the layer:
stop();