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DIRECTOR Bob Bergeron VOICES Bob Balaban, Adam Goldberg, Danny Huston, Sean Lennon In this animated film set in 1910, a shy projectionist and a colourful inventor accidentally unleash a monster on the city of Paris. With the city in panic, it takes a kindly singer to show the monster is not as terrifying as they feared. Beautiful animation, lovely music and a charming array of characters. (2011 France 90 minutes 2D) Paris,1910. Emile, a shy film projectionist, and Raoul, a colourful inventor, accidentally create a monster which terrorises the city. They join forces with Lucille, a big-hearted cabaret star, and an irascible monkey to save the monster, who turns out to be oversized but harmless, from the city's ruthlessly ambitious police chief. BBFC advice: Contains mild violence Further Parental Advice "This french-made CG toon has to get over a first-reel hump, coping with a couple of not-that-funny fin-de-siècle Parisian slacker buddies, but improves considerably when the monster shows up. Francoeur (Sean Lennon), a mutated giant flea, is credibly fearsome in terrorising-the-city scenes until he gets a makeover from a cabaret singer (Vanessa Paradis) into a phantom-masked guitar hero. Following Hugo and Adèle Blanc-Sec, this evokes the fantastical Paris of Georges Méliès and Gaston Leroux, with strong period detail and visual invention — though the knockabout comedy is a bit sub-Aardman and only one song (a hymn to the Seine) lets Paradis show off her pipes. Verdict - fun for all the family with impressive visuals and some catchy tunes." UK RELEASE 27 January 2012 RUNNING TIME 90 minutes COUNTRY France LANGUAGE English |
