Reviews for Madness Xmas Special 2

[silent-warfare]

Been there...

...done that. A million times before. Neither is the mass slaughter in this movie halfway intelligently framed ("Boo-hoo, I didn't get my pie, let's go kill Santa"), nor is there anything at least slightly original to this Madness V.1,000,000,000.1. Talking about this being "more satisfying than stick figure violence", as the last reviewer (Mr_Gray) put it, is entirely besides the point. For sake of comparison, consider the following: ill_will_press goes using the same script/idea all over again and people eventually start complaining about the lack of renewal, freshness aso. in his submissions. But Madness is cool, no matter how stale the script, how inaptly lame the violence has become - people are like "W00t! This is so kewl.". Is it because mindless butchery is in no need of artistic development beyond the mere crudeness of killing? Dress the victims in Christmas costumes, and - kaboom - there you have it: another action-packed winner in the portal. What's going to be next: Madness killing off the Easter Bunny, the Virgin Mary and Mickey Mouse? To my mind, this movie is a brilliant example of how the destructive impulse of artistic depictions of violence ultimately goes to undermine and render itself absurd, when there is no story be told with the depiction itself. There is no progression to trace in the artwork, and to call this entertaining after having watched other Madness-episodes is an exaggeration at best. This is not TOP-50 material, but a display of faltering artistic creativity. Everybody who ranked this high, but voted low on "The Battle for the North Pole" seriously needs to check him/herself. Happy holidays to all of you.

[BoneOfChickan]

irr it was sorta good...

im sorry but it was to fast mabie you need to make it slower and the ending wasint al lthat good i likethe link to the plot of the real madness...

[NewgroundsFan8]

Lame and boring when compared to real Madness.

Here's a formula I just found out that works better then I thought it did;
Popular Series on NG (-) Actual Author of series (+) Holiday theme (+) Old music that's been used better in other submissions (-) Animation skills (-) lack of ideas to create own characters/series (+) inability of people to see how short and non-Madness this is (x) nerd factor of fanboys

= Overrated 4._ _ Flash that should be at 3.50 once reality sets in.

You have nothing of Krinkles' talents, or any of his originality. You rip of his ideas instead of making your own and your animation is bad compared to what it should have been. The concept starts out good; Hank is refused pie by Santa so he goes and kills his elves and him. Then, he slaughters about 60 elves in less then a minute only because the frame rate is sped up so freaking much that you hope that no one will realize that more then half the elves he kills are killed in lame and repetitive way. And because of the fact that if you didn't slow it down to try to get people caught up in the action, they'd hear the same sound effect for almost every gun he uses, all 3 of them. The art could have been much better and the music more creative and original. Instead, you treated this like a cheap Madness copy and decided to try and cash in on it's name, with a holiday theme no less. All to cover the fact that all your movies would never get the high scores they do if you didn't copy characters, ideas, and themes from other people first.

The final slaughter is what did it for me in terms of "what the fuck was that?". You had him kill at least 30 elves armed with automatic weapons and they don't even move at all while you sped up the frame work and had them killed.
You fail at the test of skill in EVERY possible way in EVERY possible area, in EVERY way imaginable.

I never insulted him, just his skills, read it carefully again if you don't believe me.

[I-am-Maxretarted]

Madness Repeats Itself

I can't help but wonder I have seen this many times before. And why was the quality so bad, I mean the other madness ones weren't low quality but it got really low. And the ending was sort of weak. Plus it was the same as all the other ones and it is getting really old.

[KyokiKitsune]

Lazy much?

Why was all the action not shown? Maybe I'm just insane, but I think that the shooting and blood and pain and death is a little more interesting than the air above it.

You get a 2 for an interesting concept for the holiday.