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(rating: 1.08 stars / 6 reviews)
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Reviews for The Evil Strawberry
posted: Mar 14, 2008
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Mad Scribbler
Why is this even here...?

I have to wonder how the audio for this thing came into existence. I imagine that somewhere, that strawberry hoarder is still out there, terrorizing little kids. How sad.

Oh yeah, and the animation sucks, too.

posted: Dec 03, 2007
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Some of the Flash animation out there that I’ve seen is beneath contempt, this is perhaps one of the lowest of even them. An indescribable piece of filth that would take more than a mere bottle of industrial strength cleaner to shift.

The animation lacks any merits or anything, looking like something barely above kindergarten level, but without the level of insane confidence in their drawing ability that a child has (or at least can get away with). Of course if the maker of his film thinks that their art constitutes anything good then I pity him. The animation follows the art style, in a “I can’t be bothered to put any effort in because I sure to get praise regardless” kind of way that this whole thing reeks off.

It also seems that the creator turned on a microphone without knowing anything about the use of sound balancing for recording purposes. The results of this, of course, mean that the entire dialogue of the baby is over-peaked and filled with so much static distortion that it becomes immensely painful to listen to.

Nothing else bares mentioning.

It is more than a waste of time, it’s a ear-splitting abysmal waste of time, effort - to sit through - and data. Albinoblacksheep should be ashamed of hosting it. If some of the flash animation out there is garbage, then this garbage is some sort of glowing green toxic waste that has been left to putrefy and mutant into something unimaginable.

Horrifyingly bad.

posted: Dec 02, 2007
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Animated Enthusiast
The previous reviewers pretty much summed up everything. The Evil Strawberry makes direct-to-video animation seem like a masterpiece.

The animation is, for the lack of better wording, crap. I don't usually look for artistic concepts in Flash animations but this is just ridiculous. It's basically a strawberry taunting a helpless baby/toddler/shrunken chimpanzee. Sheesh, I could pull a better cartoon out of my...ear.

I still recommend you watch it however, because it's so bad it's funny. Just make sure you have a few spare brain cells.

posted: Dec 01, 2007
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World-Class Animation Critic
Does this even classify as ANIMATION? Jeez. What a horrible "cartoon". It's loud, mean, obnoxious and the "animation" could have been done better by a 5 year old.

Don't waste your time. You could be doing something much more productive... like posting spam on internet forums.

posted: Nov 28, 2007
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World-Class Animation Critic
Well, every now and then I guess it's good to point out an example of the lowest of the low. Imagine a young man named Keaton sitting at his computer, watching the most shallow, obnoxious, amateur flash cartoons on albinoblacksheep.com and deciding that this is a medium he wants to contribute to. So he calls in his little 3-year-old brother Karson, turns on a microphone, and starts calling his baby brother "stupid" while taunting him with a strawberry. Naturally the kid starts to cry, saying things like "I don't like those words," and after his fine example of a big brother continues to aggravate him, the kid throws a tantrum.

Having finished his masterpiece recording, Keaton listens to some classical music for the first time in his life, comes across a version of Pachelbel's Canon, and slaps it onto a background track. Then he opens his pirated copy of a rudimentary Flash cartoon program and uses his mouse to draw / animate a single shot containing all of a flat blue background, a table, and two stick-figure characters that could have been drawn better by his little brother, who by this time is crying in his room and contemplating his future development into a juvenile delinquent.

Finally, Keaton renders the whole thing into a flash cartoon, puts his instant messaging name on the top in anticipation of praise from fans and horny women, and submits it to Albino Black Sheep. Albinoblacksheep.com then proudly adds "The Evil Strawberry" to their collection, thereby successfully knocking the already-suffering medium down another notch. Then, apparently it becomes popular enough to earn a profile on keyframe, which at least is good because it allows me to write this review in which I tell you to avoid destroying your perception of the animation medium by watching this stupid waste of time.

(P.S. If I'm incorrect about my assumptions on the creator and creation of this cartoon - which, somehow I doubt - I apologize for sounding insulting.)

posted: Aug 03, 2007
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This is just plain stupid. The animation couldn't have been worse if they were blindfolded. There was no shape to anything. The movements were annoying and unnatural, and the outlines were way too thick.

There is no plot to discuss - just a strawberry making fun of a baby.

The voices - I liked the strawberry's voice, but the baby was so...ugh! It hurt my ears to listen. The overall sound quality is scratchy and awful.

I wouldn't waste my time on this 'toon.