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Reviews for "Meet Larry"

interesting

Really nice music and Sound FX they really helped the films story. Good animation as well. The only thing that I didn't like was that the dialogue was a tad unoriginal in places 'they say life flashes before your eyes... well it doesn't' etc.
But sti;ll nice piece.

Glad I met Larry

Wonderful voice work, great music.
A stylish animation, with a great story.
I loved it ;)

MonkFlash responds:

thanks alot

really good effort

dude PLEEEAAASSSEEE fix the voice acting...the over dramatized (batmanesk) voice ruins what could have been an awesome flash... everything else is great

It was ok

The concept was better than the animation. If its the message your working towards making more powerful do that , and worry less about the animation. The animation was good not great, but the message at the very least makes up for it. 7/10 4/5

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Ok, first I get this croaky batman voice with this insulting tone that would just make me walk away if this was a normal person. But I stayed because aparantly there was this message that you wanted to portray.

The story is that Larry is a criminal defense lawyer, and he is dying, and he regrets what he hasn't done in his life. This is portrayed by cheesy and half-baked metaphors that he groans out whilist not driving out onto a bridge, which pretty much exists for symbolism alone, and this is not a good idea in writing, honestly. Then he randomly shoots up into space and I guess he wanted to be an astronaut or something...look this was just not thought out. You're trying to make something meaningful but that's just it: You're just trying to make something meaningful.

How many times have I heard the phrase "Live everyday of your life as if it was your last"? This moral is so overused and understood that it's almost dead as a story or literary moral, and believe me, I understand what it's like to want to make something incredible, but first you have to ask yourself what IS incredible? What do I want to do in this story that I think is the most important thing? Really, I give you a seven for effort but this thing is half-baked. My overall impression is a cheesy, cheesy, cheesetastic, cheesarific cheesefest.

"Sold my soul to the devil" No. Unwarranted poetry.

"Isolated...like there's only a bridge between me and the world" Oh, so I have to be a bum-ass criminal defense lawyer to feel lonely? I'm a teenager still, and I've felt worse crap than that.

"Better choices...dream who I could've been....blah" Who the hell hasn't? Look, I'm pretty sure 90% percent of the populace understands that if they knew then what they knew now, they wouldn't have made that choice back then.

"I could've been an astronaut" I literally lol'd at this. This was just the apitome of artistic ineptitude. Was this intended as a sort of reaching out to all men who are in thier mid-life crisis, or was this intended as some sort of backstory?

I'm sorry man, this just doesn't work.

"(Any example of random irony)"