You did a really good job with this flash! Those 2-3 weeks paid off! The characters look great, and as difficult it is to display emotions through skull-masks, you pulled it off very well. The body-language was animated beautifully to carry the story along...it was some really nice work!

I lol'd that their chainsaw was right there by the door with the umbrellas and I lol'd at the ending as well! The rest, I genuinely felt pathos for the kid...his sulked over depression with the bag of coal and his murderously upset face extracted an "Awwww" out of me....same as the final embrace.

Because even homicidal internet maniacs can have touching family moments...

Dialogue was proportioned out perfectly in my opinion. Though Santa only had one line, it was necessary to the plot, and any additional dialogue wasn't needed. Sound effects were great! Especially the start-up of the chainsaw as Dad's approaching.

My ONLY complaint......ONLY single solitary complaint:

That preloader screen is really boring and bland....this one complaint is set back, however, by it's quick load-time! Still, I can't give it a ten because the preloader was weakly executed, but I most certainly can vote a five.

That I have no problem with at all. :D

Great job! Keep up the good work, and gratz on Daily 1st!

But this made me lol. :D

Great job! Funny premise...ultimately what saved the flash for me was the character's unique body-language...they moved well for a stick animation, and you can tell they were all hand drawn. You displayed a great amount of effort into this, so I'm doing my best to save it by voting five. More-over, you showed conscious effort in syncing the action with the music...a point that seems to be lost for most people, and I feel like it deserves recognition......even if (most of) the Matrix soundtrack is rapidly approaching the "decade old" age. (Just fuckin' with ya :P)

The facial expressions, the visual comedy is what stands this flash out from other millions of xiao xiao wannabe's throughout Newgrounds' history. In the future, I'd like to see what you can do with amped up creativity....from here on out, strive to constantly out-do your last animation.

Your second flash will be better than your first, third better than the rest, and so on and so forth. In other words, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Very awesome for the holiday spirit, and NG fanboys throughout the world. The cameo's were well done, although there seemed to be more emphasis on Swain's Blockhead and Mastermind than anything else...almost making it disproportionate with other cameo's. It's like, "We got Tom Fulp, Swain, JohnnyUtah, Swain, Egoraptor, Swain, this guy, and Swain!" y'know?

(Don't get me wrong...I love Mastermind. :P)

That, and Egoraptor's humor seemed....strained. The Kenstar reference was weakly plopped onto stage, as if to say, "Here." and walk off. That whole bit where Egoraptor was all over the place about that arm-wrestling match tried SO hard, I felt embarrassed FOR him.

In-all, I think what would've helped the flash tremendously is if it had a plot; The Grinch wanted to silence the citizens of Whoville, Polar Express challenged faith on a mystical journey to the North Pole. Present a conflict, a story structure...stuff like that. Y'know, WRITE something....this would normally be the point in the review where adding content like that would help the score, but my opinion can't beat over the feverish preteens that five it the moment they see the turtle from Toss the Turtle convulse in a puddle of it's own juices.

References seem to take precedence over creative material in the eyes of the average user.

*sigh* ....Oh well.

Voted five. Merry X-Mas!

When my friends and I smoke, this is one of the stops I make. When I'm working on something in flash, or Photoshop, this is on my playlist. Today isn't the first time, I woke up, took my computer off of sleep mode, and played this while I got ready for the day.

It really, truly is a good song. I'll be driving and I'll be mumbling, "There is pain...there is paaaaaiiin." The whole song is catchy as hell, and really well-done. I five every time I listen, so keep up the good work!

I think it could've done without the Flava Flav sample, but all-in-all, this is a great jam. Voted 5!

The guitar tone sounds great. There are moments in the song's structure reminding me of stages from Blaz Blue/Guilty Gear, but the slower parts would fit better to a montage sequence in a flash or a movie...something being built, or someone training, y'know?

It's still really badass...I'm a huge fan of Dream Theater, so there's really no way for me to hate this. I guess you could add vocals to make it even better, but everything came together greatly as a song. Voted 5!