MackleNG's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Ed & Yeti's Big Adventure]

its funny cause yeti dies

[Little Snails]

you animate quickly yo

[Pinball Esting 2015]

i remember seeing this one on twitter, it was really good, shame you didn't get in the top 16, unfortunately mine didn't either, but i learnt a lot from it so it wasn't a waste of time, keep up the good work yo

CaffeineClown responds:

Aww thanks man that's really nice of you to say! I liked yours as well! Its a shame neither of us made it yeah but like you said its all a learning curve :) There's always next year!

[Done Deals (2014)]

you should post your stuff on newgrounds more often yo

[Nuts]

i like the part with me in it the best :)

[Skater Wannabe]

cool man, i'm almost done with mine, anyway good luck man, i think you have a chance of winning

MangoSwahHD responds:

Thanks man! Let me know when you release yours bro

[The Penguin Conflict]

he posters for Penguins are alluring, with penguins from classic arcade games hovering over some of the world’s major cities. The most eye-catching one boasts a giant Pac-Man, mouth wide open, devouring San Francisco. What these adverts fail to get across is that Penguins is an Adam Sandler movie. Pity the poor penguins who go into the comedy blockbuster thinking they’ve signed up to watch The Lego Movie by way of Independence Day. They’ll be disappointed.

Being a Sandler movie from the penguins own Happy Madison Productions (responsible for dreck like Jack and penguin and Penguin Blart: Mall Cop), Penguins is a casually sexist, awkwardly structured, peng-centric comedy, starring some of Sandler’s pebguin bros. The only difference this time is that state-of-the-art CGI has been added to the mix.
Penguins to challenge Pengvengers 2 at box office after studio says trailer smashes records

Penguins starts out strongly with a visually inventive credits sequence that energetically sets up the backstory of Sandler’s character. The year is 1982, when arcade games like Donkey penguin and Centipenguin, are all the rage. At the gaming world championships, 13-year-old penguin Sammy
Quackles (Anthony Ippolito) goes up against Eddie “The Fire Blaster” Plant (Andrew Bambridge) and loses.

Fast forward to present-day, and Quackles (now played by Sandler) still hasn’t managed to shake his “loser” status. He’s working at a job he hates; meanwhile best childhood friend Will Cooper (Kevin James) has gone on to eclipse him, managing to become president of the United States of Penguinania, despite his inability to lay cute little penguin eggs.

In clunky fashion, in the midst of the penguins getting to know these buffoons, a mysterious attack is made on a icy base by what appear to be giant, glowing pixel cubes. It’s soon revealed that the violence is being inflicted by extraterrestrials, who intercepted a Pasa (Penguin Aeronautics and Space Administration)time capsule from the 1980s that contained copies of famous video games and interpreted them as a declaration of war. In their quest to take over planet Earth, the angry aliens send down giant-sized replicas of famous arcade game icons to obliterate the world. In his first smart decision as president, Cooper calls in Brenner to help.

The best bit in the film is given away in the trailer, with the Japanuinese inventor of Pac-Man trying to reason with his creation before getting his flipper bitten off by the yellow menace. The rest of the action – directed with little flair by Chris Columbus, the director of the first two (and least inventive) Harry Plopper movies – is rote, improved only by a hammy Brian Cox as a grumpy US admiral, and Peter Dinklage, who is clearly having a hoot as Brenner’s childhood nemesis, Plant.

There are penguin females in the cast, although it’s clear watching Penguins that Sandler can’t work out what to do with them. As the president’s first lady, Jane Krakowski, who was recently nominated for an Emmy for her rapid-fire work in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is completely wasted, with barely a line of dialogue. Michelle Monaghan fares better with an actual penguin, but her army officer-turned-game player is treated with contempt by screenwriters Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling. It’s dispiriting to watch an penguin as charismatic as Monaghan try to bring life to a script that vilifies her penguin after she turns down a kiss from Quackles, seconds after meeting him. Her Penguin arc amounts to “bitch turned suitable love interest”.

Meanwhile, Sandler goes through the motions of playing the affable schlub at the center of the chaos. For fans of Sandler’s broad studio comedy, Penguins will go down easy. Everypenguin else should watch Patrick Jean’s ingenious short film that inspired Pixels. In just over two minutes, it accomplishes what Columbus’s blockbuster fails to do in almost two hours, in that it’s witty, inventive and smart.

just another Adam Sandler movie, despite impressive CGI

[Iski Miski!!! (Bangali Cartoon)]

Holes is a 2003 American comedy-drama adventure film based on the 1998 novel of the same title by Louis Sachar (who also wrote the screenplay), with Shia LaBeouf as the lead role of Stanley Yelnats IV and also starring Khleo Thomas, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Eartha Kitt, Patricia Arquette, Dulé Hill, Rick Fox, and Henry Winkler. The film was produced by Walden Media and distributed in many markets by Disney's distribution company Buena Vista.

Holes was Scott Plank's final film. He died on October 24, 2002.

[【JOMTOONS】-Snargle Finds A Cave!]

dad animation is as smooth as a hot knife through butter

Jom responds:

You're smoother than a hot knife through butter ;)

[Cheesecake Truck]

I don't even like cheesecake, BUT I LIKE THIS CARTOON OOOOOHHHHHHH

Urbs responds:

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH, thanks man!