Mmm... I don't think this quite lived up to my expectations based off of your other films. It seems rather like a project in which you have over exerted yourself trying to complete this longer-than-usual film in a one-week time frame whilst spending too much time chatting with other brickfilmers about all kinds of random nonsense. xD
This, however, is understandable, as moving to longer projects can be harder to do, especially in a short amount of time.
Though, whilst it doesn't live up to my expectations, it did live up to about 96% of it, which still pretty great.
Hehe
The best thing in this movie is your set design, which just blows all of your other set designs away. I especially liked the path to the house, how it used varying colors, and you put it on the same level as the grass instead of being lazy and putting it in top of it, very, very clever. I'll probably use that some day. The house was also very nicely done, and I liked many of the little details very much such as the silver cup, the book shelf, and other things.
Your animation also has improved nicely.
And the whole idea of the story was very great, just some guy applies for a job, then that other guy is like "HEY DUDE WANNA BE A SPY" And then he's a spy. xD That's comic genius. Along with the whole coffee thing.
As for voice acting, I love crazy over-the-top screaming a whole lot. xD It's awesome. But what I don't like is when it just messes up because of the microphone and it just hurts your ears. Particularly when Just Kidden yelled and such, his mic isn't the best, he can't help it, I guess, but this had me messing with the volume trying to adjust it so I could hear everything without hurting my ears. Properly, when watching a film, you should be able to find just the right volume and be able to leave it there throughout the movie without any need to change it. I think you could've altered the levels of a few voices, sounds, and music to make them better. But it's understandable for a BRAWL film. I was completely unable to understand the guy with the red beard.
Just Kidden please, read this. (or anyone who voice acts and screams)
When you record screaming, or rather loud yelling, you should keep your face far enough from your mic as so the scream can be recorded properly without that bothersome loud fuzziness which happens when microphones are overloaded with loud noises. When I record, I usually keep myself about a foot away, more or less depending on the line, then I'll probably edit it in post production to make sure the volume is just right and flows with the rest of the film. Sometimes I'll shout and move to three or two feet away, and then there are some especially extreme circumstances. A good example would be a line in "MAILBOX OF DOOM!" where that one guy (Wilson the Window Man) ran into town screaming at the top of his lungs then announced that a giant mailbox was coming to eat them all. Remember that? If not, go watch it again, enjoy the awesomeness of my movies (haha sorry xD), anyway, whilst recording that line, I got out of my chair, and walked somewhere around seven feet away from my mic, then screamed as loud as I could. Thus recording a good scream without causing that annoying fuzzy noise.
