Score: 6

"Overdone jokes that work."

submission: Ask Taco-Man

date: May 7, 2009

None of the jokes were anything new, with the vast majority of them having been done time and time again. However, due to your style you managed to pull it off without turning the flash into a groan-fest. That being said, this definitely wasn't one of your best works though.

I didn't like the fart sound made as a censor noise at the beginning. Fart jokes are just far too childish for my liking and there are a large number of noises you could have used which would have worked so much better. While the opening song may have been irritating, there were a few funny lines included.

I felt that the disclaimer went on for far too long. You'd made the point well before it ended, so a lot of it was unnecessary and it ended up being boring. The list of possible names for Taco-man, while also long, worked better, as with this joke you were offering a variety of different things, whereas the disclaimer was just the one joke stretched out.

It would have been nice to see Billy writing in different places on the paper instead of putting everything in the same place, which was also the incorrect place to end and start a letter. I thought that the narrator was going to make a joke about this each time he interrupted him mid-writing, but unfortunately he didn't. The closing line of this movie was a definite highlight and it seemed to be poking fun at the fact that the jokes you used in the flash have been done many a time before.

Score: 7

"Pretty good."

submission: Tobacco Man

date: May 7, 2009

Definitely a pretty good movie with a nice level of humour for the most part. Plenty of the jokes may have been predictable and cheesy, but most of them still worked. The base of the idea wasn't particularly original, but I don't recall having seen a cigarette as a bad superhero before.

It was a shame about the low quality of the video, which was particularly noticeable during camera movement. Was this due to you editing it in a program other than Flash? If so it seems a shame, since you surely could have at least used the trial version of Flash to edit it.

Some of the lines were difficult to understand due to the voices being put on being far too strong. I'd suggest subtitles or making sure that all the lines could easily be understood. The sound volume of the audio in the end credits was at a much higher volume than the rest of the flash and once the credits stopped rolling you were left with an extremely dark still from one of the scenes with black lines over it. It would have been nice if it had gone back to the preloader screen with the play button instead.

I didn't fully understand the jokes regarding the colleges. I could work out the point of the joke, but of the colleges mentioned I had only heard of Harvard. Obviously this flash was aimed more at American viewers than overseas ones. Tobacco Man's coughing fit went on for far too long, which made it become a pain to watch. You could have made this much shorter, still got the point across and would have ended up being much funnier in the process. I also felt that the scene with Cindy went on for too long, with it taking up the bulk of the movie. It would have been nice to have seen this time spent elsewhere on a wider variety of jokes.

Score: 6

"The ending made the movie."

submission: Skeleton Jack

date: May 7, 2009

I didn't find the movie to be particularly good for the most part as it just seemed to be another fight movie with an escape and little story. The movie didn't really pick up until the end, which raised a smile. The fight seemed to be over too quick, so it was fortunate that this wasn't what the movie revolved around. Despite it not being the essence of the flash, I still felt that it could have lasted longer though, being more intense.

The preloader could do with an overhaul. Not only could you have chosen better fonts, but the black background didn't fill the entire screen and a white line was visible on the edge. This created a bad first impression and led me to believe that this flash was going to be of a fairly bad quality.

I didn't like how the movie constantly switched from widescreen to 4:3. It bought far too much attention to the fact that 4:3 is far inferior to 16:9 and any other widescreen variants. The graphical inconsistency wasn't particularly good either, as one minute the graphics seemed to be fairly good on the whole and the next, not so. Some shots of the artefact and temple had been created in a different program from Flash and were pixelated, which made them look absolutely horrible.

The best aspect of this flash in my eyes, which even managed to top the ending, was your absolutely excellent choice in sound effects. The selection you made in the scene leading up to the fight was absolutely brilliant.