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[Ordinary Girl: And It Continues (Ep #2)]

The concept is okay, but the animation is, for the most part, annoyingly choppy. The voice acting for the main character is pretty good, but the teacher, dad, and friend voice was so quiet and disinterested it was hard to understand. Also that bully girl is very cliche and her voice is so over-the-top and (I believe) unintentionally silly. There's also a problem with the characters being see-through and the main character's boobs looking like they're on her sides. Maybe you could find a way to make them stick out forward more. It's a weird criticism, but still. The line of "When did I turn into Superman!?" was pretty funny, mainly because of the voice actress' delivery. The ending was also pretty funny, though I'm not sure what exactly they would have seen, most likely just a blur running into the room, though maybe they could have overheard her.
Overall not very funny or original, but there is some potential in it and the main character's voice actress was pretty good. Try making the animation a bit smoother, too.

[TheBruvs - Getting The Hump]

I really like the animation style(s). All the different assets are pretty cool and create a fun atmosphere when they come together. Did you make all of them? Anyways, I like the characters, and how they're robbing a bank and then they just decide to help the community by removing the speed bumps. Though I guess they were probably doing it for themselves, but it was a funny exchange when they were being civilized and discussing intelligently how speed bumps are pointless. Just one thing-why did one of them call the other Bruv? Isn't that their last name?
Overall a fun little short with an interesting style.

TheBruvs responds:

Thanks for your thoughts... We make all the assets. The Bruvs thing is that they are brothers, with the surname Bruv and they call each other Bruv.. It's a thing to enforce the title and their brotherly relationship. We have other films up here - and on our website TheBruvs.com - .. we're also doing short sketch comedy podcasts with the same characters .. links are at the website too. Thanks again for all your feedback. Much appreciated.

[Beauty and the Buzz-Kill]

I liked the concept, though it has been done before, and the various Misses were pretty entertaining. I especially remembered Pike, because I got the cameo and she was funny. All the definitions of world piece were pretty funny, too. I wasn't that into the fly story, though,it's been done a lot. I did think it was pretty entertaining how it hit him with his own flyswatter and the bat so quickly. The ending was kinda predictable, but I still found it pretty funny. A complaint I have is that it was a bit hard to hear what the girlfriend was saying sometimes. That stock wound effect you used for her being hypnotized was so familiar, I loved it. So cheesy and fun. That music in the intro was nice too. I liked both of the character designs and Sammy's voice was pretty entertaining too.
Overall, this had some nice humor, though a lot of it was predictable and has been done before and the voice acting was a bit hard to understand sometimes.

[Basement Buddies]

Pretty cool cinematography and animation. The music was fitting and cool, but the whole thing felt a bit...unsatisfying. Like, who is this weird couch guy? What's the point of him being there? Why isn't he being fed? I did find the monsters pretty cool, as well as couch guy, I just would have liked him to be incorporated more meaningfully. Maybe you could have removed the first shot and had him be the owner of the basement. I really liked that table towards the start with all the stuff. The shot of it in a black void looked really cool because it was so colorful in a cold way.
Overall a near jam entry in terms of style, and has a good atmosphere and setup, but it lacks a punchline of any sort. Even a fade to black or the flick of a light switch or a zoom-out shot of the table would have been better for the ending than a straight-up cut to nothing.
Also, if you didn't make the music, credit the person who did. If that person is you, good job.

jellyeyes responds:

Hey thanks, made it quickly for the Basement Jam competition so the narrative suffered, and music is mine.

[How Much Is Windows?]

I really liked that. It was very energetic and fit the narration well. I liked the ending with "except in Nebraska" and the guy spray-painting Nebraska. Like I said, it was very energetic and I really liked all the old Windows references, especially the one with the guy's face in the old art style. You really did the guy well too with his crying and everything. Terminal prince boar ram driver was majestic btw.
Great job on this, it was very fun and you perfectly captured the silliness.

[Rifle League]

I liked the end part about how badly you shot, with the Kevlar vests and things. The story was pretty interesting in this one. I really liked the "near-sighted storm trooper" joke. So good. "You're gonna f**kin' kill somebody, you maniac!" was also funny to me, it works so well with your delivery. Like always, I find your jokes are very hit or miss, so the last part was a lot of hits but the first part had some misses. I did like the C button thing and the antique gun.
Overall, entertaining as usual, especially towards the end.

[I won't wear a Jacket - Gus Johnson Animated]

I like the song, and the style of the animation is pretty cool. The visual presentation could have been a bit more crazy, but you did design the character to fit the song. I did like him pulling out the baby (though though a five year old doesn't look like that). The animation wasn't very good, and the ending was just awkward, and not in the right way. The mouth and eye animations weren't fluid at all and there was pretty much no other movement so it was not very good-looking or satisfying. The mouth itself looked really awkward. Still, you say you made this a while ago so you've probably gotten better. You just need to put a little more interesting stuff into the visual presentation and a bit more effort into things like that ending.

Stratini responds:

Thanks for the feedback I'll keep that in mind for sure. The reason the ending was long was just because on YT you can leave end card links to other videos but, I didn't even remember to cut it for the NG version.

[Pike and the Horseshoe Crab]

This was better than the last one. Less of the voice acting that I didn't like much. In this one, I actually like the main character, and the horseshoe crab is also pretty funny. Of course the character who can only say one thing has been done before, but it was still pretty funny in the end, when Pike said "And I wouldn't have it any other way". I liked the sea pumpkin's attempts to eat and disregard of the signs. It was very satisfying when the horseshoe crab stopped him in the end while smiling the whole time. Also another thing I forgot to mention in the last one is that you do some good comedic sound effects.
Keep it up, I liked this one! Short and simple.

[Breakfast]

That was really weird. I like the artstyle a lot and the premise is pretty weird and cool. I liked the forced laugh track and the weirdness of the characters and situation. When the mom started asking for breakfast as well that was funny. The ending was really weird though. I feel like you could have worked it in better to fit in with where the joke was going. Like maybe a laugh track just keeps playing or something. His final over-the-top yet underplayed reaction of "Oh my God!" was pretty weird and funny. I liked the character designs too.
Overall, I liked the style of the humor (and the artstyle), but the ending could be better.

[Pike and the Sea Pumpkin Problem]

I like the style. I'm not a huge fan of the comedy though. The sound quality and voice acting wasn't that great, so maybe that's why. That outburst started a bit too abruptly. It should have been her trying to get angry, then the guy ignores her and starts eating her plants again, THEN she explodes like that. The anger wasn't accentuated enough at the start and some music might've helped with that. Like some metal or something in the background. I do like the savage way she killed the guy and he was a pretty funny character, with the pacmanning and nonchalant eating of plants. The orange guy was a bit hard to understand because of the voice. I also liked the joke about it being dry, since it predicted my line of thinking about the Spongebob logic of watering plants underwater.
Overall, you've got a couple of funny jokes, but the story and characters aren't very original and some stuff needs to be accentuated better.