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[Knoxs "The Matrix" 6]

Yes! It's finally come!

I was waiting for the next installment of your Matrix spoofs! This has got to be the funniest so far! Your lip-syncing is almost flawless! I especially give you praise on this because I know it's REALLY difficult to do off the top of your head, which I doubt was off the top of your head, but rather having a bunch of funny ideas that you can see if you can put into the words of something with it muted. I do it occasionally with Anime's because they're the easiest to lip-sync with...hahaha. I ought to do that one day and make it into a flash... I like the new Pre-loader! TOXICBOMB did a really good job on it! Will it be used in the rest of your flashes? Anywho, the humor content in this was just rolling on the floor side-stitching laughter, I love it! I can't really put any one flash of yours as a favorite on my list because you always come out with better ones! One thing that I noticed about this flash, though, is for some reason the recording is really quiet; I had my volume turned up to 23 instead of 13-15 to normally hear it. Other than that, Excellent job Knox! Another 10! Peace Out!

Phobos Technology, Phobotech.

PS. In your last response to my question of which character I have your permission to use in my flash, you replied "Newspaper Monster." What flash is that from? I don't recall. If I can't use it, may I just pull a "Battle of the Portal" and use Blue Clay figuires and call them "Knox's?" Please Respond, and take care!

Knox responds:

newspaper monster is from dont take the newspaper.
you can use my blue dudes if you want though

[Fritz the Fox]

Grah! Stupid Farmer!

Dude! This flash kicked ass! Especially given that I'm currently in Civil Air Patrol and have high hopes in becoming a Navy or Air Force Fighter Pilot! The dogs, or rather American Fighter Pilots, (heh, it seems you're all for the Germans arn't ya? That's okay, they had awesome machinery) ...were they flying P-51 Mustangs? And what was Fritz flying? I know I'll recognize the name when I hear it, but I just can't think it right now... but all in all, your artwork was amazingly accurate! I loved this non-vocal, nice WW II style dogfight! You kick ass my friend, and I'd like to see more stuff like this from you!

Phobos Technology, Phobotech.

PS. If you were intending on giving Fritz a voice, please don't. He's just one of those characters that are better off without a voice... for example, Tom & Jerry. I dunno, do what you want to, it's your character...but if you want to keep that WWII feel, you might get better results by keeping a mute character.

cherokee158 responds:

Actually, the dogs were British pilots flying RAF Spifires. Fritz flies a Messerschmitt Bf109, one of the most produced aircraft in the world. It takes backseat only to the Russion IL-2 Sturmovik and PO-2, and the American Cessna 172 (which I'm sure you are familiar with!) in terms of numbers produced.
I'm not really a big fan of the German military, but Fritz is part of a series of cartoons set in WWII, and putting him in the Luftwaffe enabled me to 1) let him fly a wide variety of interesting planes on every front and 2) name him Fritz.

Good luck with the CAP! Happy Landings!

[A Fight for Life]

Hmm...

I havn't seen any of your previous flashes, but the animation looks fluid enough to me. So I think your goal has been achieved if it makes you happy. One thing that bothered me though, was why did the Blue guy have his "Instant Nun-chucks" and then just stuff it in his belt again! (or what looked like he was stuffing into his crotch.) I can understand the guy being overconfidently powerful and all, but that just makes him pulling out his "Instant Nun-chucks" completely unnecessary and makes him look really stupid. Another thing, were the sunglasses at the very end all that necessary? And couldn't you have a scenery in the background, and have a side view for the character that way it's easier for the viewer to identify that "The main character is running away from the compound before it explodes" All in all this is an "okay" flash, and I think your goal has been achieved with the fluid motion, so good job on that. I give you a 6, and Peace Out.

Phobos Technology, Phobotech.

FubarPro responds:

Well I guess I made him put the nun-chucks away so that they would be avaliable later. But good point anyways.

[Sonic's Quest For Power]

Holy Shit dude! That was fuckin' awesome!

I loved this sprite movie! It even beats Megaman Re-Vengance in the choreography department! Now, you say you had trouble with Font colors because of them blending in with backgrounds? Just use a speech bubble or a box to put the text in. Also, try and give a specific character a specific color, that way the viewer will never get confused. The sound was also supremely awesome by the way. Which, if it's not insanely too much to ask, can you hook me up with most of your Sound Effects please? That would be awesome! One other thing that you kind-of need to work on is your special effects, (example: Blasts, The Portal, Explosions, etc...) All in all this is an awesome page, and will more than likely make it to the Top 50. Outstanding Job!

Phobos Technology, Phobotech.

LgdVegetto responds:

Yeh the subtitles sound like a good idea..thx for the pointer! :) But Alot of people seem to hate this movie though... :( ...I just wanted to try to save Sonic...that's all :S .... It's just a Tribute...not a perfect movie...

[(2003)Jacob II]

Reminds me of Army of Darkness.

Yeah, this one is better than the first by degrees! I like it alot. My favorite part is when the Green shirt guy (who appears to be as immortal as Jacob if he can survive a shot in the head from the last flash...)and the Red shirt guy were charging at each other going "AABBLBbBLBLBBLBALBBLBBLBLB!!!!" Hahaha, greatness...

"This is my BOOMSTICK!" Phobotech. <---- (it's just my favorite line of the movie that this flash reminded me of...that's all...)

Knox responds:

ha ha i see,thanks for another great review.
if you liked this series,check them out in my up coming..series..ha ha..featuring ALL my clay charecters.
COMING IN DECEMBER!!!

[(2003)Jacob]

"You DON'T...SHOOT ME when I'm ON...THE... PHONE!"

This is the funniest claymation I've seen from you thus far Knox...well...I'm not sure how good the 2nd Jacob is yet, but I'll check it out as soon as I submit this review. There were a couple of things I noticed:
1 The people in your flashes can really take a hit... I mean, instead of having an arm blown off and go "OH DEAR SWEET JESUS TAP-DANCING CHRIST!!! MY ARM!!! AAAGH!!!" They rather go, "...well...damn...he just blew off my arm." It's like they're on morphine or steroids or something...
2 The guy had his arm blown off, yet, eventually it grew right back... LIZARD MAN!?!?!?
3 The people's bone structure is really REALLY weak...well...oh crap, I'm such an idiot...they're made of clay. NEVERMIND. (Heheh, that could open up an opportunity for you to advertise milk. "See what happens when this man NEVER got the proper amount of calcium needed? *rrrip* Oh dear God! His head fell off! EEEEEKK!!!)
4 That guy in the read shirt needs glasses...BADLY...he has eyes that are all over the place...lol!

Just your average observations from a casual reviewer and near future flash artist, Phobotech!

Knox responds:

1.ha ha yes..i agree :P
2.i really screwed up on this one,but his arm dosnt get blown off,just his hand,it stays that way through the rest of the clay mation i think,yet in part 2..his whole arm is gone.
3.lol
4.ha ha yes,hes a dork

good bye! :)
and thanks for the review

[Newgrounds Jam #1]

Meh...Tommy's was the best.

I liked the concept, but it just wasn't OUTSTANDING... It was okay. Next time, either have 5 artist's do different PORTIONS of a song or just do different songs for each artist because the music got downright annoying by the time it was Tommy's flash. Nice try though...

Phobos Technology, Phobotech.

T0MMY responds:

Next time will be a totally different theme for the jam.
Thanks for the review.

-T0MMY

[Suicide or BEER?]

Very good for your first!

Now for the constructive criticizing. The screams in-between the Suicidal guy's thoughts were a tad unnecessary. It took just a little too long for the devil to get up there. The music was okay. I DID enjoy that unexpected twist of the Devil pushing him off, however it spent a lot of time watching them falling. Also, don't worry about censoring crap, 1. nobodies going to get offended so don't worry about it, and 2. it brings the impression that your afraid to curse, which more likely than yes, your not. If I may also note, upon impact, the blood wouldn't consist of dots of blood. It's more like a pool of blood and very little splatter if any (watch Faces Of Death.) Plus, you should've involved more beer in the movie! Hahaha! All in all, great first flash! Hope to see more!

Phobos Technology, Phobotech.

Gusto responds:

thanks for the advice! i thought the screams were halarious.. (says a lot bout me...) the elevator was being fixed. so it was slow.. he was actually just goin up to enjoy the view, but he saw the dood.. and decided that it would be fun to free fall with him as there were a lotta ppl on the ground watching. censoring.. i didnt even think about that.. and yes im afraid to curse, this guy had very thin blood.. which resulted in it spraying out in a dot-like fashion.. more BEER! yes there should have definetly been more BEER!!! Thanks for the review! nice to see someone spend time commenting on my shiezer!

[Megaman: Vengeance]

Dude!

That has got to be the best sprite flash I've ever seen...and I don't even like sprite flashes! Anywho, everything was great! Your fight scenes were creatively done, and the graphics were absolute greatness. Now I don't want to get on your bad side or anything, because I love Megaman and this flash, but the music...the music...I don't know, in the next one you have to do somebody different. If I could recommend anything, I'd recomend downloading "Liquid Tension Expirement (or LTE) "Paradigm Shift" or "Acid Rain" It's awesome rapid fight music that'll keep the flash on the front page for weeks. That's really about everything. Awesome flash, looking forward to the next! Peace Out!

Phobos Technology Inc. Phobotech.

S-c-r-a-t-c-h responds:

Finaly a review with a suggestion! Yeah, I will totaly check that music out. Thank you so much! Really glad you enjoyed it...

-Scratch, Masked Productions

[Battle for the Portal Pt1]

Yes. I like the story...

Mostly because the odds are against the Clock Crew, but that's besides the point. Great flash, I love the concept, but what about:
Legendary Frog & Kerrigan
The Retarded Animal Babies
Animutations
PICO & THE GANG
Disorderly
Synj's characters
etc...
My point is why stop there? Why only 3 armies and one stick figuire Zombie that lunges at cars causing them to crash and burst into flames? Why not go BEYOND that? Hm? Oh well, good Preview, but I'm saving my 10 for the actual thing. Peace Out.

Phobos Technology, Phobotech.
Phobos Technology

SecretAgentBob responds:

I would have loved to have had upwards of 10 different groups fighting each other, but the time constraints that exist in a 5 MB video-flash kind of prevented that. None-the-less, I do have quite a few cameos in Part 4 - the final battle.

Thanks for the review!