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[Mario Brothers - Part V]

Overrated. Yeah I went there

This review is to the series as a whole.

Well... what can I say? From the dramatic death of Luigi in the beginning which wooed us all (especially me) all the way to the suicide of Mario at the end. It leaves me speechless. Wait, no that's a big fat lie. It was terrible, poorly executed, cliched, and overall not very satisfying.

And yes I am well aware of the fact that not ALL movies and series' have happy endings. I should know, I've watched "Children of Earth". But this was not at all the great (or satisfying at the VERY least) conclusion I was expecting it to be.

Now I'd say something about the acting, but that's another thing since it's a sprite movie. VGDC's "Rise Of The Mushroom Kingdom" was (and still is) one of my favorite Mario series', and it was also clever in the aspect that it did not require voice acting for one second(excluding the occasional remarks from the brothers).

Reading text off of the screen for an 8-bit movie is not a very good idea. For the first 2 episodes, maybe. Even some mouth movement in sync with the text (if that makes any logical sense) would've been acceptable, and I wouldn't have ranted on like this.

Now CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT was mixed. As I said before, Luigi's death was heartbreaking (for a sprite movie at least), but then after that everything went sort of...naff.

...as you can probably tell that's NOT the word I was looking for, but nevertheless my point still stands. It was one emo speech after another. YES we're aware that Bowser is gonna attack the Kingdom (not the most ORIGINAL idea, but you still made it work well for most of the time). YES we know that lives are at stake, but you don't need to emphasize it so much!
We're also reminded of Luigi's death too many times it becomes an excuse for Mario to act all depressed and sad, and I didn't mind that. I can closely relate, I've lost relatives when I was a child but I don't spend the rest of my fucking life moaning about it.

We then have this action packed battle that we get to see (AT LAST!!!!!!!!) and I have to say, it was fan-fucking-tastic. Sprite animations were some of the best I've ever seen! But we are reminded that they ARE sprites and no animation or emotion on their faces, and that keeps making me feel unsympathetic towards the Toads. But then, when everything seems bleek, WOO! Peach is finally saved...

...and then she dies. Score 1-0 to "FUCK'S SAKE!". With all the emo atmosphere of the previous episodes though, who COULDN'T see her death coming? Well, I'll give you some credit since I didn't fully expect that the lava would be the way to go, and the clip of her death WAS pretty hardcore and executed quite well.

So the fans have their sad death. And what are we left with in the final 60 seconds? The final emo rant from Mario about loss and other emo crap (again from text which was almost a chore instead of entertainment and had no emotional impact whatsoever), and then...yeah. A suicide. Probably the most unimaginative way to go at the end of a series. And I didn't feel remotely sorry for him. Luigi's death was as far as I could go for sympathy, but this IS a sprite film, so Mario's goofy and pixel-led face made it more humorous and stupid, instead of depressing.

OK before I get too critical of this, I'll just fully round this off.

The Good
-Character Development (Episodes 1/2, and 3 to a certain extent)
-Extra points for Character Development considering it was a sprite film, and not many people can do that well.
-FANTASTIC animations and tweening. Your work with flash&sprites is amazing!
-The entire plot itself was one of the more original we've had, but...

The Bad
-...as a sprite movie, you can only do so much, and the plot didn't tie-in together all too well.
-Too many emotional rants that it eventually became stupid and tiresome.
-One of the more unimaginative endings I've seen in a series (and not just sprite series')
-Payoff from all the hype from previous installments just wasn't there...

The Ugly
-Ha! just kidding lolz (would ya believe it?!)

Overall Score (Episode/Series): 5.6/6.2

Phantasmagoria-crow responds:

I like your review and I don't think it is useless as people have voted. Consider not assuming Mario's death a suicide. Instead think of it as a surrender to the greater forces working against him. Mario didn't jump into the lava, he let it take him over. Also, there's a reason why it says "Game Over" at the end instead of "The End." Who's to say the 'player' doesn't just try again and win the next time. Late response, sorry...

[Clock Crew Collab - Light!]

Great messege at the end for that flash.

Great work from all of you guys. Emm... Nothing more to say than keep up da good work!

Sonucais responds:

sweet

[Sonic V.S SS (Clip)]

Cool

Nice animation! I would try and improve on the music a bit. I Wouldn't really use that kind of music. Still it is your movie. Are Shadow and Rouge gonna be in the actuall series? Cos if so that would be pretty cool. Well I can't wait for episode 4!

Vixin-McCloud responds:

Thanks for the review and yes I agree with you about the music. I found a better quality later on. Go figure. Rouge already is in the series. She appeared briefly in Episode 2 and Shadow will appear later on.

[IMP new year]

A great new year party after all!

Again like all your flashes, this is brilliant. But brany missed her chance to eat Icecream for teh last time in 2006. Oh well. Happy new year. I guess. How the second part of the doomed shadow show coming along? I hope to see it soon!

RogerregoRRoger responds:

we're taking a break, so im afraid it can take a month or 2 :S
Sorry.

[Kingdumb hearts 2 part 2]

I prefer the original voices

Not bad but it will never match the first one. South Park cameos. Lol. Too much dancing as well. You have to put Beavis and Butthead a cameo for everything don't ya? Not that I have a problem with it. And one strange thing With this and the prequal. When you see the XIII orginisation far away they have hoods on. But when yuo see them up close they don't. What's up with that? I haven't played the actual game but I loved this. Good work. One final thing. What's this "flash for your parents" thing all about?

RogerregoRRoger responds:

Beavis and butthead dont appear that often

Anyway, the hoods go on and off all the time, one of the XIII members i dubbed "cloakguy" is a character i specially created because often i have no idea who's who.
the parents flash is here:
http://www.deviantart.com/dev iation/38689845/?&q=by%3Aroge rregorroger+in%3Ascraps&qh=so rt%3Atime

[Super Mario bros Z ep 4 (old series)]

Good but some things wrong

For starters, Sonic's home planet is Earth not Mobius. Second. Naoto Ohshima was the one who origianaly designed Sonic. Not Yuji Naka. There was some awesome fight scenes there. I haven't seen DBZ but this was damn awesome!

Alvin-Earthworm responds:

I know about that. But I thought it would be better if I used Mobius since Mecha Sonic reduced it to a burning wasteland.

[IMP episode 26]

Finnaly!

Another IMP episode. I would have thought this would go on deviantart first. oh well awesome!

RogerregoRRoger responds:

it did go to deviantart first, about 3 hours or so even.

[The CCs humble beginnings]

Good clock day flash.

Brilliant flash. This is a definate <going on my favourites> flash. It tells how Clock Crew began,add in some Clock Crew humour and voila! You have a Rupee flash! I think I forgot how to spell rupee. I should play zelda more. But anyhoo brilliant! But now I have to wait a whole damn year for Clock Crew 07. But in the meantime, long live Clock Crew!!1 I showed this to my friend but he didn't find it funny. I don't know anyone who can't find this funny! Oh and I saw that someone did a "Tails and his GBA 4" and I found that it wasn't by you. Did you know about this? It's a boring flash. Doesn't have anything to do with Sonic. Well I didn't watch the whole thing but it was so boring so I decided to close it. Just thought you'd like to know this incase you want to take those authors to court and get some money.

RupeeClock responds:

Yes I know about it, it was designed to piss people off. -_-;;

[Mario Gets Massive!]

Good flash

I loved it. But one of the reasons of that is because it's based on New Super Mario Bros. Could of made more movies but mabye I should release my anger on Randy Solem if he said it had to be 4 movies. I love the Clock Movies aswell. Awesome movie!

JonBro responds:

No. I just couldn't come up with a fifth idea, so I ended it at 4. This isn't Randy's fault at all!

Thanks!