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[Bambee]

Great Animation, Great Quality, Scary Cartoon

Gracious... I observed this cartoon, and I must be frank, your skills as an animator are splendid. Of course, looking back over how the plot unraveled as a mocking outline to the original it was based off of, it was also disturbed.

I base my judgment not on how it made me feel, but more so on the quality and effort put into it. The voiceovers, I admit, were well placed for the scenes that unraveled. On the risk of sounding like many "parrots" on Newgrounds, I'll say it for the sake of entertaining myself... "BIRD!!"

*ahem* As I was saying, the quality of this cartoon is grand, truly splendid. Fluid animation, excellent lip syncing, a unique style that both mimics and taunts the original movie. I can only imagine the creators are either laughing happily at the cartoon or rolling in their sleep to the nightmare of a birthing Bambi... *shudders* O, what agony I experienced then... Yet it was so hilarious that I could not restrain myself from laughing.

Kudos to you, good man. May you create many more cartoons that mock the greater animated films of yonder!

El-Cid responds:

Verily.

[Tankmen Infinity]

A Splendid Animation, to be expected from Pikanjo

Perfect Kirby, Nin10doh, The Matrix Has You, it's no wonder this cartoon has such a high score. This is not to say that your past performance merits higher scores, but how splendid this cartoon's performance was. I was surprised not to see dear Richie (or is it John? I can't remember which one of you is the pain glutton) in this flash, as it is a bit of a trademark to see him take punishment in your flashes, despite what sort of continuity you've infringed upon. Of course, despite what appearances you make or the copyrights you destroy in your quest of histeria, it all ends up as a perfect example of what flash artists should do for comedy/action.

Plotline: VERY good use of continuity. You've stuck to the series's roots and its storyline, if you would call it that, hah... More to the point, I was actually surprised that the profanity-spitting goggled guy was still alive. When I watched Tankmen 2, I thought he was killed, but even in this case I loved his role as an annoyance... Rather, more of an annoyance than most of the other obnoxious "cock-joke" spewing characters. The female, well, I didn't know whether to like her or not at first. She seemed more intelligible thant he rest, and didn't seem to fit in with the idiotic members of the Tank Crew. Her bumbling in the end though fixed that quickly and made me laugh at her with ease. I was light hearted to watch that part.
Additionally, the idea was gold. Having Steve kidnapped was a great way to give the viewer a better look at the warfare that goes on. Sure, we've seen goggle-guy and the Australian accents get killed, as well as poor Dark Ma- Er, Bill, but they were in a more joking manner. Seeing how the Tankmen do battle like that was awesome, as it were. Of course, the lone sniper in the building threw me off a while. Certainly, he was funny, but what was his purpose? Was he there just to be scared and make us laugh? I never saw him doing anything pertaining to the mission. Still, a great cartoon despite two or three minor things.

Humor: You'd think that, by now, sexual, homosexual, spaztastic, farting, and beer jokes would be old by now. I mean, REALLY old, with how much the internet has pummeled them into the ground. But you know what? Tankmen seems to avoid the disgusting barricade of age and has brought about a great setting that brings smiles and laughter to us. I'm humbled to see such amazing talent, yet as I've stated before, it's to be expected from John and Richie.
The bondage and anal sex jokes were actually funny, though normally I'm not quite interested in such forms of humor. Still, you've taken them and made them a grand thing to behold and listen to. I have to admit, my favorite part was when one of the opposing commanders was interrogating Steve. I'll say this: MY favorite would have to be the Stick too! I can only imagine the short cartoons someone could create elaborating on that one... Errr, on second thought, I'd rather not.

Animation and Graphics Quality: I almost believed it was from the original author of Tankmen. I didn't even notice the words Pikanjo or John and Richie within the vicinity until five or six replays later. I'm a bit embarassed that I was so blind to your credit towards this magnificent work. Of course, seeing the female soldier did give me a few second thoughts. I digress, however.
Smooth animation quality and wonderful visual effects. It was kind of easy for the female soldier to slide into that enemy's head though... Talk about an empty skull, hah! More to the point, there were no flaws beyond that. You've done a great job this time, guys. A GREAT job.

Sound: The voice acting was nice, as was the lip sync, but the part where Steve starts screaming sounds a bit quiet for a scream. The second point he screamed when the dagger was removed from his genitalia was much better in quality, however.
As for the gun shots, I had to keep turning the volume up and down, up for the voices, down for the discharge of bullets as they were quite loud in comparison.

I'm running out of space, sorry. All in all, great cartoon guys.

Pikanjo responds:

Heh heh, actually, we both did make an appearance. After the bomb goes off to open the door, you see us watching TV. I'm the one with the orange soda.

As for the fart jokes, bondage and anal, and swearing, I'm glad it turned out funny. We've never done, well, any of those before in our movies. We kinda stayed in the PG realm of those jokes, except for the violence; that was always XXX.

'Tanks' for the review. Glad ya liked it.
-John

[[KK]LiveActionSquirrel#15]

Fine so far.

I look forward to the advancements in the series. :D

LiveActionSquirrel responds:

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[[KK]LiveActionSquirrel #9]

Recommendation

I recommend that you put your flash skills to good use... Rather than submitting the same thing with a different audio file, you could make an actual series about Live Action Squirrel and whatever sort of zany antics you want to put him through.
Or at least make a breakthrough and go on to making some sort of Live Action Raccoon, or rabbit, or badger even. ^^;

LiveActionSquirrel responds:

maybe;

liveactionsquirrel the game

or

liveactionsquirrel the movie

Or I could make a series out of live actioncow!