The production quality on this entire thing is absolutely amazing all around.
Except the writing. It's shit. Whoever wrote this has a critical misunderstanding of how to write comedy and characters. There's pretty much only two jokes I can even identify as such, the dice thing at the beginning and the bit where the goblin captive poses after having a potion used on him.
There are COUNTLESS missed opportunities for visual gags and silly moments, and absolutely none of them are used. First was the initial invasion of the goblin village, which had some references to hack-and-slash arcade games, but uhh...wait, this is classified as a comedy? All of these vague references are not jokes. The senseless violence in itself is not funny, and it's not satisfying to watch because what you're seeing are fleeing citizens and not attacking minions. The people aren't defeated in any amusing or interesting ways like with nearby objects or goofy movements, and the two adventurers suffer no meaningful consequences for their heinous actions, making it infinitely more frustrating because seeing them get punished could have been, guess what, another source of comedy.
If you want great examples of a marriage between action and comedy, you'll find a well of it in old kung fu movies. Check out Jackie Chan and take note of the progression in the action scenes. It's pretty natural to root for the underdog, and the environment is a character and a tool of its own, these are two of the most important points.
Reviews for "Elvis & Dimmi"
I love the animation, but it lacks resolution. A joke needs a punchline.
Great animation, too mean-spirited to be fun.
you can animate really nicely, you have great adventuring ideas, but your characters are fucking stale , i fucking hated all the black humor in it, because it's NOT BLACK HUMOR OMG, its just the characters being cunts, the lil slave they had just made it worse, maybe just tweak it in a way that they dont come off as malicious pieces of shit, or else all the jokes flop, great imagery,but the lack of punchline even had me triggered at some point, i mean just look at the ending, im rating this as it is, animation against everything else i just pointed out, great animation, bad jokes
good animation
hard to watch story with ending making me feel worst then going in