ratchili's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[CYBERGIRLZ]

Not sure how I feel about this. Visually and aesthetically this just oozes early 2000s internet insanity in a way that so many other people have failed to capture. You really nailed that blend of anime and MS Paint style that lends itself to that era. However, it seems as though a consistent theme of this cartoon is to take shots at trans women and claim "total woman victory" partially by calling them men. Maybe that wasn't the goal and there's some references here I'm not aware of, but I'd be careful of that since myself and others have noticed this (some actually praising it for being "TERF"). You can make the most visually appealing thing in the world but if it's there to shit on the marginalized and persecuted, then I can't support it. So I'm hoping that wasn't the intention and that we can all expect to see more stuff in this fun style of yours in the future!

EDIT: yeah no after watching this again closely after seeing all the negative reactions to my comment, I can say without a doubt this is some transphobic bullshit. You have a lot of skill and talent that I would recommend using to make stuff that doesn’t punch down (and create a hateful community that harasses me in my DMs because I had a minor criticism of this cartoon). I honestly wasn’t aware of how hateful this cartoon was until your audience was so hateful to me that I decided to rewatch and see why they were so defensive towards it. Your grotesque depiction of trans women and gay men as nothing but misogynistic degenerates is so misinformed and bigoted that I am appalled this ever got front paged. I really hope you grow and learn.

[Punk Ass Pirate Donkey]

The action scenes are so well boarded, paced, and choreographed my lord this goes hard

JazLyte responds:

Thankya! Action choreo's what I love most, glad it's hittin <3

[Get That Cheddar]

Amazing rat content thank you

[An interesting shopping encounter]

MORE RAT CONTENT YES !!!

[Troyal of the Century]

Major props to the voice actors, godDAMN they sold the characters. The art and animation were a fun take on the Simpsons style too. Cool stuff yo

Edit: WOW ok completely missed the description where one man did all the voice acting. You’re one talented dude Jayden !

TmsT responds:

No voice actorS -- we're allowed ONE!

That's right, all the voices were performed by just one person (Jayden Libran)!

[Gym Rat]

You and me should see if we can conquer the entire frontpage of NG with quality rat content

[A Nightmare in Subcon]

SMB2 as a whole was like a weird fever dream man that mask that would fly at you used to scare the piss out of me as a child

cool animation btw

[Failing Upward: All My Friends]

This has got a lot of potential. I enjoy how human the characters are with the way they are written and they way they act. That sincerity kept me interested, but I'd definitely try and take further advantage of the visual medium you're working with. Jaime-R kinda carried with his surreal portions, but not even just because it was so technically well done. What was being animated was just very visually interesting and I think you could incorporate that more into the rest of the animation.

Like even during scenes where they're just talking on the phone, I think you could show more angles of the characters' respective environments and maybe play more with color palettes. The best aspect of the phone conversation was how real the dialogue felt, so why not compliment that by showing the audience relevant visual information? Maybe while they talk about nerd stuff, you can show the dude's posters or maybe he's wearing nerdy socks as he takes a seat in his star wars beanbag or something. Doesn't need to be anything fancy, but if you give us a better physical glimpse into their environments then we'll begin to feel more attached and interested in what's happening. Hell, maybe even do some mild camera movements to keep the audience's eyes from glazing over while they talk.

Pretty lengthy comment sorry but there's so much good stuff here that I'd love to see y'all flesh this out even further! Hope to see more in the near future & best of luck with this project :D

WaeBakStudios responds:

I totally agree. We have a bit more fun in the second episode, specifically in JC's opening. It'll be posted here soon, but it is on Youtube. I'm glad you dug this though!

[Salad Fingers 13]

The funniest thing is that this isn’t even the first time Salad Fingers has eaten himself as a meal. But hey, he cooked himself this time which is an improvement? I guess? I love this concept of growing a growth on your back instead of crops in a field for dinner. Your stuff is always worth the wait, excellent stuff my guy.

[Everything Must Go]

Pretty cool stuff, I’m especially fascinated by the way that crazy character Mark Pimento was animated. I think you could’ve benefitted from using more varied and dynamic shots throughout the film because some of my favorite parts are ones like the ending with the weird car exterior perspectives. So I hope to see y’all double down on that surrealist goodness you’ve been cooking up in your next film. Good stuff keep it up !