It was okay.
Did anyone else see the creeper pony on the shelf of the pony store?
Reviews for "Spend It Wisely"
TommyVF responds:
Nope
-.- sigh..
i will be honest. it was well made good animation and qualtiy sound. but it seriously feelt like someone smashed together chowder the marvelous misadventures of flapjack and adventure time with finn and jake. into one animation. im not saying its unoriginal but it really FELT unoriginal is similar animation styles similar humor similar ideas (though you cannot deny the masterful style of lazymuffins voice acting). i really wanted to give it more than i did. i come to expect a lot from those names i see on the side of the site. and you delivered a good animation... just not a great one. sorry guys not being mean just speaking from the heart.
Chowder
It makes me think you were going for a chowder look.
Flavorless, not all that original.
It always warms my heart to see somebody put lots of time and effort into making a long, fully-developed flash toon. The graphics were solid enough and everything was nice and clean. Also, I enjoyed the music. To it's credit, I wouldn't be surprised to see it on TV. But....not everything on TV is interesting. This cartoon was completely over-saturated with super-indie cartoon hipsterism, which ironically is just lazier, re-hashed versions of cartoon conventions from the late 80's and early 90's. For it to be so random, it somehow still managed to be incredibly bland.
So... the premise, a couple of fruit people decide to find money for their little sister's birthday present. Along the way, they eat a pony, meet an exploding fairy and deliver a time machine. I could see that being hilarious at a party of drunk suburban 8th graders, but I kind of realized that I didn't crack a smile even once throughout the whole flick, and I have a pretty wide threshold for immature comedy. It could have been made funny I suppose, but the art was so conservative, it didn't really enhance the humor at all.
It's never really all that creative when one of the main characters is so annoyingly dumb that he keeps screwing up the smarter characters' exploits, it just seems... lazy... (Like an excuse to keep the cartoon going longer) and it's not all that funny. We've seen it a million times. When Ren & Stimpy did it, it was hilarious. When Rocko and Heffer did it, it was still hilarious. When Spongebob and Patrick did it, it was amusing. When Mung Dahl and Chowder did it, it was getting kind of old. By the time your generic fruit brothers did it, it was a pain in the ass. Contrary to popular belief, badly done foreign accents are not exactly the peak of fresh, clever humor. Also, Ren & Stimpy style uber-detailed paintings accompanied by silly noises is incredibly overdone.
But... People are loving it, and you went the (fairly) original route by not making it about Mario or Halo, so it isn't [bad] by any stretch of the imagination. I imagine some of my complaints are due to my own taste, but what I can't be objective about is the fact that it's chock full of unoriginal gags that have been done to death in the cartoon realm. Still, good effort as far as production.
Wha the shit