Reviews for Throwback the Duck Ep. 1B

[Othello]

Slow

I really wanted to like this one. The concept is pretty good, the music is good, the art is top notch. There are a lot of major problems though, not the least of which is the writing. The whole thing is very slow, the dialog doesn't feel natural, much of the voice acting is bad, and there's an absurd amount of filler.

You need to pick up the pace. We don't need a robot bird giving a 30 minute speech, if you must have the character trim his part down and use a faster (and intelligible) voice. We don't need such a completely uneventful traveling scene. The people reading the lines really should practice them much more (Bubsy and the woman were pretty well done), so the delivery is snappier and doesn't feel so strained. If this is supposed to be a comedy (I really can't tell), your writer needs better material.

You have something with potential on your hands, and with some (admittedly large) improvements we could see something genuinely masterful.

David-Gornoski responds:

From the beginning, I've said that this is an adventure series. You are watching a journalist on the trail of mascots. It's tongue-in-cheek adventure. Think of Scream. That was tongue-in-cheek thriller. Most people dont realize it was a great comedy, because they think comedy must make you laugh nonstop.

But that's not the goal with that movie. And it's not the goal with my series. Im telling a story...which also happens to poke fun at saturday morning toons of the 80's. That includes cheesy dialog and what appears to be "bad acting." It's part of the package, my friend.

[Sirschmoopy]

I don't understand this.

The animation is amazing, but besides that this cartoon is awful. I don't understand the slow pace storyline that lags on and on followed by scenes of poor humour and plot.

If this cartoons goal is to show off the ability of your animating skills it is a complete success, but if it's suppous to be well written/funnny/entertaining or simply have a point it fails over and over again. Stop wasting your talent.

[DjMidnight00]

too bad

nicely animated, unique idea, poor execution. although the crazy asian guy was kindof funny I have to admit, but no explanation whatsoever? cmon, i'm sure you can try harder than that.

[RSQViper]

*sigh*

Great graphics, but more poor story. That whole beginning was really, REALLY annoying with the kid attacking everything then pulling an Ace Ventura and going to sleep on the telephone.

Th evoice acting from the duck was bad still, but whoever did the cat BUBSY is a good actor and does the character well so that's good to see. But, he didn't actually seem panicked with the whole assassination attempt which was odd.

Anyway, I am still hoping this series picks up in the writing department so it can become more than just mildly funny (which is being nice) and hand out some good laughs.

Also, new upload limit is 10Megs. Both Aand B should have been able ot fit into one upload, so that's something to think about next time. Plus, a popular series or artist is just an email away to Wade to allow a full upload larger than the allowed limit.

Best of luck!

[shluvenz]

BadAss Animation.

...But, i must admit i got bored... But that isn't a bad thing because you may have been making a serious animation, where as I am into Humor.