Reviews for The Pretenders

[Neophyte-Ronin]

A Pleasant Surprise

There were people who got miffed into thinking this is a serious production, but this is exactly how my brothers and I used to play around in the house, if we weren't playing (and endlessly analyzing) video games.

With the exception of jumping around for the advent of delicious grub (we devoured most everything and didn't care as long as it wasn't poisoned), it was dead-on in its portrayal of young kids who take on different roles. To have grown idiots perform the leads makes it funnier, although you could have had someone who knew how to play a father/elder sibling figure for the third character. That was the weakest link, and instead of poor production value, it was a sour actor.

I don't get why ads had to be placed onto the final product, but so be it.

This was actually pretty fun, and it surprised me. I almost overlooked it (mostly due to a few sour reviews before me), but I'm glad to have viewed it. Maybe if I peruse my old entries and reviews, I'll remember the other locale and view it there as well for the best effect.

Fro responds:

Wow, thanks a lot.

I do agree about the father figure, but we had to work with what we had. So instead we used the angry brother.

As for the ads, they are put there because.. we make money from them lol. Why wouldn't you want ads put on a submission?

I'm happy that you enjoyed it and thank you for the well thought out review.

[XwaynecoltX]

I liked it

~~REVIEW~~
very good movie, i thought it had some decent acting looks like you guys did homework with other real movies and such, but corey you are killing me with the size hehe, but regardless i still enjoyed the flash and had a really good story, i thought it might use some "SUBTITLES" the voices were not bad, but it might just make it that much better. anyways great movie even if it was 18.9 mb's hehe

~~THINGS TO IMPROVE ON~~
Add some subtitles just an opinion though

~~OVERALL~~
Awsome movie great story, cant wait for more

~X~

Fro responds:

Sorry about the size. It's much better than it's original 80 MB size though!

Ha, I'm happy that you enjoyed it and perhaps we'll find a programmer to make it so you can turn subtitles on and off in the future.

Thanks for the review.

[sisoriboy19]

lol

mine wouldnt load

Fro responds:

Lol so you reviewed it without watching it? Sucks to have a slow computer huh.

[Kokujin72]

not bad

This was a pretty decent film overall. i laughed during the gun fight scene and the pissed off big brother scene. and the file size wasnt an issue for me personally. But to tell u the truth, i just dont think this was meant to be submitted here. am pretty sure most of the people on this site (including myself) view newgrounds as a flash animation/any other animation site. i just dont think that a film with ALL live action shots fits in well on this site. i think your better off just submitting this kind of film on break.com. But am not going to knock you points for that. I still thought it was funny, not the most original plot, but it works, and i thought the actors were good too. And the quality wasnt the best, but not too bad. And i believe u Accomplished wat u set out to do, which was to be comedy (for the ppl who thought this was suppose to be a serious film, your morons). anyways, not bad, hopefully u wont take ill-will to my opinion. peace man.

Fro responds:

It was already submitted on break.com before this website.

Good review though. Thanks a lot!

[someguy49]

Overly elaborate

This didnt really need to be such a huge file/production. Im not sure if it was supposed to be a comedy, or if it was a real attempt at a movie that just turned out that way. It could have been better if you had kept it as a serious story throughout.

Fro responds:

It was suppose to be a comedy. And yes it had to be a huge file. That's it's size. You're punishing my score just because the file size is large?

And it was comedy all along. You can obviously tell from joke after joke even during the serious parts. If you thought this was supposed to be a serious submission in anyway then you sir are completely ignorant.