Animation Critique (2)

Hello everyone,
My name is John Bresky. I am from Toronto, Canada. I have been hovering around here for a couple of months now, but this is my first post. I have just competed a 5 week course in Maya (although I do have other 3d experience), and have two pieces of animation I would like those that have time to critique

Animation #1 (approx 250k)
(copy and paste this address into your web browser and save the animation to your computer, this is the only way I could get it to work)
http://muss.cis.mcmaster.ca/~breskyjp/PrimitivesWeb.mov
- In this first animation we were to use only primitives and basics like rotation, scale and translate to tell a story

Animation #2 (approx 500k)
(copy and paste the address again)
http://muss.cis.mcmaster.ca/~breskyjp/ToysWeb.mov
- In this project we were alowed to use more copmlex animation and modelling techniques in our endevours. The focus was still on story telling though

Thank you for all those that have time to look at and critique my work