Hah
I got an Army Ad with mine too - irony, eh? Anyways, that was pretty cool with the interactivity. Tack on an ending to that and you're good to go ;)
Reviews for "Join The Army!"
not great
pretty decent animation and the sound wasn't bad, but it kinda went nowhere after the humorous beginning. perhaps you were trying to contrast the serious violence of war with the obvious parody that can be made of american-style recruitment tactics, but it was all a little weak and uneven. a good first effort, but you need to work on your storytelling and come up with better endings.
Cute Monkeys
You built your story from high school to enlistment, so that was nice and reasonable, but you allowed your star to be killed off! I guess I kinda wanted to see him become a hero or something. Give him an opportunity to become a hero and a survivor and make it longer. It didn't matter that your characters were monkeys, I thought they were cute.
Meh
The animation and artwork style was pretty stale... nothing too pleasing to the eye. Sound(especially voices) lacked enthusiasm and turned out cheesy. I'm not against the use of monkeys, but I'm guessing you got lazy and pretty much used the same monkey but in different colors as most of the characters(especially the enemies). Overall, this is really nothing fresh or new, and I would like to say that your understanding of the military is VERY NAIVE. You picked quite a controversial topic, and you also got some negative feedback, but that shouldn't be a surprise for you. Work on breathing more life into your animations, and giving them a little more length before ending things in such vague terms... people tend to misunderstand.
Best wishes for your future~
Is that supposed to be against the Iraqi War?
Personally, I think the protagonist fared very well, even if he probably had his head cut off in the end. A single American life for loads of enemies, and that's with a basically untrained troop. Imagine what it's like when he's well-trained, and equipped with high quality, expensive weaponry. The American forces cut through Middle Easterners like knife through butter.
I wish the army was like that in this country, comparatively small, well-equipped, and efficient. The only problem of American Armed Forces is that the targets are chosen unwisely, as in the case of Serbia, for instance. But not in the case of Iraq.
At any rate, a good way to bring up the topic.