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[Ducktales Loose Change 2]

Blatherin' Blatherskite!

Like part one, I found this cartoon disregarded and lost in the back alleys of newgrounds. It seems like it never had a chance for exposure. Very sad because it's well-made, funny, and just good stuff.

This part of the series was even funnier than the first part. Again I really liked all the obscure Ducktales references. Fenton's mother and girlfriend were great, but my favorite was the beagle boys. Again, you surprised me at the end with that actual Carl Barks comic panel showing that the Beagle Boys were actually on welfare. Hilarious and somehow disturbing.

I really liked the evil nephews from that future Ducktales episode. And I was horrified when they became the "hip" Quackpack versions. That's not even an exaggeration. Disney actually did that to their classic characters! Some viewers may not be aware but this cartoon is actually a biting commentary on what actually goes on in the cartoon industry as it tries to be trendy and whore its treasures out for a dollar. The Marvel comics Ultimate line has similarities to this, in my opinion. So do most movie versions of anything.

I agree with others that the volume seemed to shift and was a bit hard to hear sometimes. However, I like the sound effects from the Ducktales video game. And the voice acting is so spot on. It's hard to be believe only two people did so many great voices. Very talented and rare.

The story was interesting as well. Towards the end I found myself honestly interested in that weird blinking reality shift that was happening. I do kind of wish it was longer. I guess I wanted more. I this would be a good monthly or bimonthly series. It's much more intelligent than stuff like "Ackbar" but I think it's a quantity vs. quality issue.

Well, I hope you make more. It's good entertainment.

Dekathos responds:

Yes everyone is complaining about the volume and I don't really hear it like that on my computer for some reason so it's really frustrating but well next time I do something I'll check the audio on other computers and I'll see what I can do.

I'm really not sure what to think of my feedback overall for this, comments being few and far between. Although it is also the first movies I've ever made that no one has put in their favorites. O well, at least I had fun making it although it took a little too long to make.

The funny thing is one of my biggest regrets was not animating one of the evil business men nephews smoke a cigar.

Of course I had a lot more ideas if I made more of these, but I wouldn't want to go overboard because I was thinking I would have had to put Darkwing Duck in it, especially since I wanted to bring Launchpad back for a couple of gags.

I think that would open up too many areas and I don't think it would work for just one more flash which is about as much time as I would consider putting into this series. There was plenty of missed opportunities with Donald as well.

But who knows, Vito helped a lot by editing the script. Gandra's rant would of been like 8 hours long if he hadn't cut it out. I was even going to put Daisy in it!

I feel like I'm doing stand up comedy rather then a flash animation sometimes.

Yeah and I added Quack Pack jokes because I saw a part of an episode on Youtube one day and it really is way more horrible then I remembered. It's an abortion and unfortunately you are right and they don't act much different here then they do in the cartoon.

The beginning credits even has Donald trying to watch a classic Disney short and they waltz in an knock the tv out of the way to show clips from Quack Pack. That's a pretty straight forward message there of the point of the show if I ever saw one.

I hope all the late 90's kids here who watch this can relate cause despite how obviously stupid Quack Pack was, I know they eat shit like that up, just like they'll eat up Bayformers when it comes out in a couple of days and it will make hundreds of millions of dollars.

I also hope they gag on their popcorn with laughter at all the hilarious piss and fart jokes it will contain and when Prime says "My bad." O well.....

[Ducktales Loose Change]

Burst me Appendix!

Where did this come from? If I had not done a search for Ducktales on newgrounds I never would have found it or known about it. That doesn't seem fair.

Anyway, I think this cartoon is excellent and very funny. It was clever, well-researched, and well written parody, and I honestly think it was well-animated as well. I liked the sort of 3-D effect that was going on in some points, like with the signs as the money bin was being zoomed in on. The voice acting was also spot on. Two voice actors doing a dozen or more voice is pure talent along the lines of Frank Welker or Chris Latta.

I enjoyed the endless references to the Ducktales series. It's worth it to note that if a viewer is not closely familar with the Ducktales cartoon series most of these jokes and references will be lost. Bubba and the genie from Ducktales the movie deserved that death. I would have liked to see that other fat, obnoxious genie who made an appearance in an episode, too.

I love the Beagle Boys song at the end. I want that mp3! I also thought that original, unedited, Carl Barks comic panel at the end referring to Scrooge's oil fields in Iraq was chillingly appropriate!

Great work! I hope you make many more!

Dekathos responds:

Yeah sorry about that, I haven't really been on aim in a while. I was surprised that Loose Change only had 3 reviews for the first two days it was submitted and only four now. I feel like my flash is invisible sometimes so I'm not surprised that you didn't notice.

I know there are an awful lot of in jokes in this. Probably more then usual. I was sorta expecting questions about what was going on. It's like people would rather review to bitch about something instead, though.

Ironically, if this was spam with a provocative title everyone would watch.

Also, the original script I wrote mentioned that evil gay fat genie from the show. Burger said something like, " Ducktales already has a stupid Genie why did Disney make a movie with one?" But Vito was too busy Ad libbing his Mcdonalds speech to deliver that line.

I was going to have Admiral Grimmitz mention Scrooge's oil but I didn't feel like adding more talking at the end. That was a great comic book I took that panel from. I think my favorite part was how Scrooge can speak Arabic in it.

But then again, Scrooge can speak almost every language in those due to all the traveling he's done making it square devouring all the world's resources...

[Barbequebeefburger II]

Mr. T approves.

I suddenly feel like eating a big mac.

[Batman Dreams]

>_>

Damn, that's the evillest looking Robin I've ever seen.
Make more!

[The Family Circus Sense]

Can we have psgetti?

An absolute classic.

[Bignose Kills a Baby]

>_>

It made me laugh out loud.

[The Zero Dragon ep.2]

HILARIOUS!

Just like watching a badly-dubbed kung-fu movie! I can't wait to see more!

[Egypt Rulez!]

Cool Animation

I love all of the frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation. It animates very smoothly, I thought. This cartoon must have taken a long time to complete! I also thought the story was funny and clever.

[Whitmore: H'ween Special]

Awesome Toad Pirate Halloween-ness!

It's was great to see Whitemore back from the dead in unholy zombie pirate ghost form! When he died the first time I cried for seven months straight! Well... six and a half... And now that Whitmore's gone again I feel another good bawl coming on...

EdibleCastle responds:

i hope at least this time the pain you feel isnt as intense

[TF Megs And Unicron 2]

"Such Heroic Nonsense!"

That was hilarious! I loved every second! It must have taken you ages to complete! It deserves front page and daily first place! "Excellent, Laserbeak! Unlike some of my OTHER warriors, you never fail me!"