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[Fairly OddFortress]

Gotta start off by saying that I actually really liked the concept of this animation. I liked Fairly Odd Parents as a kid, and like Team Fortress 2 now, so its a good sort of mixture of childhood nostalgia and jokes that I find funny now. You captured the art style of the cartoon and applied to the TF2 theme very well. There where nice little touches thrown in (like the teleporters, the pipe bombs) that made parody that much better. And I actually liked the "Hats" bit near the end. This was an idea that had a lot of potential, and for the most part, you used it. (Unlike a lot of parodies that get throw together these days) And that I commend you for.

Now to the negatives. The lyrics for the song just kinda fall apart in the middle, and never really find their way back to being that good. The first half is great, with lots of TF2 references that actually rhyme with each other. Then the "chorus" kicks in and things just stop working. The the "Red team and not the blue team" bit just feels really forced in there and breaks the flow of the song. It just sounds so weird. I know parodies are at there best when they reference the source (hehe) material but don't relay on it to make the supply the jokes, but really, it just seems like an unnecessary change that damages the final product as a whole. What was wrong with just saying putting something like "Odd Fortress, Fairly Odd Fortress" or even just "Team Fortress" there like the original theme song? You even did that thing where you stretched a word out or shrunk a word down so you could have enough syllables (A personal pet peeve of mine)

While I'm on the subject of out of place lyrics, I gotta say, the sound bites from the game don't do it for me either. The medic saying "I'm fully charged" sounds once, again, forced and out of place when put up against the original song. Even the spy at the end just seems like just throwing in a random sound clip. (Why it was the spy anyway, is another question, since at the beginning you established the blue solider as the Vicki character. [Sorry, I'm a continuity Nazi]) It just seems like you only put those in because there is some kind of internet law that you need a TF2 sound bite in a TF2 parody. I can understand not wanting to using a impersonator, and trying to keep the voices as close to the game as possible, I get that. But there are like hour long videos on YouTube of all the dialog of each class, and I'm sure you could find some quotes that would fit better than the one you chose. And even if you couldn't, you could take the Zeurel route and make your own sound bite with audio you have. Yes, it would take a lot longer and be a more difficult. But it would just be make the song that much better.

Which brings me to my last complaint. The voice. Good god the voice. I'm sure the actual recording itself was fine, but the filter you put over it just made it difficult to understand and horrible to listen to. If you didn't put the lyrics in the description, I would not have been able to understand a lick of it. I assume you put it in to try and make it sound like the original, multi-layered sound of the original, but in the end it just sounded like a really bad auto-tune job. Really took out a lot of enjoyment out of the cartoon.

That was a lot longer than I thought it was going to be. Whoops. Anyway, yeah this was a good idea for a parody, but there where just a few things holding it back from how great it could have been. When its good , its great. When its bad, its horrible. That being said, it is one of the better parodies that I've seen in a while, for the most part at least. If you do anymore parody cartoons in the future, just keep in mind somethings I mentioned and I'm they'll be even better.

MisterChris responds:

Whoa, thanks for the review man! I completely agree with what you said. As far as the lyrics go, I had only really put a lot of detail into the beginning and kinda of shafted the rest of the song, since at first, this was only a little joke with a single drawing. Never really thought about animating it, but finally did.
I was tempted to get other voice actors for Medic and Pyro, but I thought it was funny for them to say their lines from the game, but maybe we just have different tastes on that matter. I did voice Soldier and Scout though.
The musical part of the song... is bad, yeah, I know. It originally sounded much better, but there were syncing issues, so I sent it off to get mixed... and it got worse, but the syncing issues were fixed. It was either bad sync or bad autotune, so really put a hole in my boat for that one.
Thanks for the great feedback! I'll make sure that my future videos have SOLID sound, I don't want a repeat of what happened here, haha!

[-Scene Of The Crime-]

Not bad, infact I like it!

This was pretty good. The syncing was good, the dialog combined with the background action was amusing and I think the whole thing was pretty funny. My only complaints would be the lack of movement from the main characters themselves and the length. But since your sort of still new to animating, I can understand that. I'd like to see a sequel sometime.

RidenerDesign responds:

I'm thinking about it. We'll see what happens.

[Halo Reach: Armor Locked]

You should have kept going woth the humor...

I don't think this should have been a serious cartoon. I know you you started it as humor and then moved on to a more artistic cartoon, but that just left me with the wrong first impression. Then that just left me waiting for the comedy to come back, which lead to disappointment when it didn't. Sure, there's nothing wrong with drama, but according to your description in the authors comments, you hate people that spam armor lock. Isn't that a reason to make fun of it, so we can see things from you perspective?

What would have been a more satisfying out-come for me, would be the note saying something like, "Dear Dad: I love you. Signed, your Son. P.S. Your a noob." Or when the kid touches him, he immediately comes back to life and (Still thinking he's in the battle) upper cuts him into space. If you kept all of the serious stuff and ended it with a joke that comes out of no-where, it would make it that much more funny.

But, this is what it is and it's you animation, so you can do what ever you like with it. I'm just telling you how I see things. This is still very good for what it is.

Good job, Timzilla.
P.S. Your a noob. (JK :3)

DoomzDayChikn responds:

i see what you mean, but I chose not to do something like that because it would have ruined the mood I tried to set up.

Trust me, this movie started off as a comedic idea, but eventually, it turned serious for the simple fact that I don't want to just make garbage (random pointless humor etc) and upload it to Newgrounds. As an artist, I strive to create something memorable and original, and thus, the reason I chose to end it the way I did.

I appreciate your ideas though

[Turing Test]

That was amazing!

This was pretty awesome. The writing was really great. It left me wanting more (Which a good thriller mystery must always do) and the music also added a nice creepy, depressing atmosphere. Can't wait to see more.

Thanks for adding one more reason for me to never get an AIM account.

Jimtopia responds:

There are plenty of reasons not to get an AIM account, glad I could add one more.

[Birrus]

Meh...

Let me start of by saying that the music choice and art style where very appropriate for the cartoon and the animation was very good at the end when he eat the bird. That being said, I didn't get it. I didn't get what the walrus was doing or why he was sneaking up on the bird. At first it looked like he was going to try and eat the bird but then he just stairs at it. Then the bear shows up out of nowhere. I don't know if that was an inside reference or what, but what ever it was, I didn't get it. And as I said, the scene where he finally eats the bird was very well done. But as you said, you got lazy with the ending, and it ended rather abruptly. It looks like you have alot of potential, so I do look forward to whatever you make next, but please try and work harder at your humor and don't rush your endings, and you'll come a long way.

Miccool responds:

Thanks, I really need to work on these things as I've said. Pedobear is a meme from 4chan.. many internet goers know of it. But I agree with the "not getting it". That was a problem I was facing as I was making it; I have difficulty with body language and expression.

[WaterLoop!]

It's SCIENTIFIC!

Nice job. It's really great that you could make something educational and fun at the same time. This seriously could be use in classrooms. You should do more on things. I'm not sure which things, but judging by this video, you'll be creative enough to come up with something on your own.

Veinom responds:

do you mean that I should do "more educational things"?

[Left4Fulp]

Really only one funny line

" You know, I should really finish Pico 2"

Really the only funny line. But I see potential for a sequel, so I would like to see that. (Maybe involving Mindchamber, Bob, and Lijam hunting down Jeff,Tom,Stamper,and April, maybe with the real voices.) Anyway, just a thought.

darthnebula responds:

Everyone seems to think I can just PM these people and be like "Oh hey im some random douche trying to make a movie can you spend some of your time to voice my none (Yeah I didnt write a script for this ok!) script ?" they would be like who the hell are you ? it would suck

That or they say yes, I dunno I didn't even try!

[Don't Sleep, Robby!]

Fun

Great movie. I love the whole sense of Deja vu (aw screw it , I tried) from the other cartoon which I'm to lazy to remember the name of at the moment. One question though. Do you dream sequences mean anything, because they seem to compelx to not mean anything.

Bobert-Rob responds:

I personally think every dream has a little meaning to it. This dream definitely had a lot of meaning to me, especially when I had it. Thanks for watching!