joeartguy's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pumpkin Stop Motion]

Amazing work, and an amazing amount of work. This is a tremendously clever idea, and props to you for following it through to the end. Solidly -- or hollowly -- great!

[Plungerdog - 02: Janitor]

Awesome psychedelia! This is really top-notch animation, evocative and bizarre. The sound is clean and the designs are original and interesting. I'm very much enjoying this series!

[Hyper Halloween]

Great design work, great animation! A terrific Halloween video.

[Daniel Garcia WaterMelon]

I get it. And it's still not funny. Posted as a YouTube response, maybe amusing; here, no. Pick a meme from here next time.

[Please Send Tell: 0.1]

Better than expected! The animation is very lazy, but the voices and sound quality are good and the writing is sharp. I look forward to seeing more.

Adam-Beilgard responds:

I look forward to making more!

[Batman Hates Bronies]

Great work. You turned left at the end joke; I thought for sure it'd be a Super Best Friends Forever ref. Nicely done.

[Romney Killed My Family]

Great sound work, and nice technique on the drifting camera -- a political ad staple nowadays. You got the feel just right!

[Polly Otter]

Very stupid, and I mean that in the best possible way. I applaud your dedication to warming up, and cooling down. And honestly, if she went to high school with the sun, she's probably too old for him. Great work!

[Pencilmation #26]

As these shorts get further and further away from storylines that makes logical linear sense, they get more and more fantastic in every sense. This particular thematic experimentation is filled with hilarity.

This reminds me of cartoons from the 1920s, when animators were far more willing to use the drawn media to mess with viewers' perceptions for a joke. Great work!

[Three Skins Without Men]

Warped and abstract, I'm impressed that in this often random work your narratives are always far from abstracted. This is finely crafted work, artful and thoughtful, a dreamscape that stops just sort of demanding contemplation -- if only because its facets reflect so much nonsense and obvious illogic as to make it more of a stern but polite request.

That these dreams are often horrors gives them a gritty tension throughout, no matter what is actually happening. These are descents with thinly veiled threats of terror and vague intimations of beauty that may never appear, with no Virgil to direct or explain to us. In every place we are bewildered in the literal sense: cast to wandering in an unknown land, which in this case still seems at times terrifyingly familiar.

Fascinating work. Art in every sense.