Ehirerapp Waste of time

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

kmt-88132 My Life as a Zucchini or Ma vie de Courgette is a 2016 Swiss-French production directed by Claude Barras. It is an adult stop motion animation that was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 89th academy awards, but lost to Zootopia. It is an adaptation of Gilles Paris' 2002 novel Autobiographie d'une Courgette. On rotten tomatoes my life as a zucchini has a rating of 98%. The site's critical consensus reads, "My Life as a Zucchini's silly title and adorable characters belie a sober story whose colorful visuals delight the senses even as it braves dark emotional depths."plot SPOILERS : Icare, the main character, lives with his mother who has become a irritable and sometimes violent alcoholic since her husband (Icare's father) left dissapeared. Icare is seen flying a kite decorated with a crayon drawing of his father in a stormy sky- making believe that his absent father is a super hero. Later his mother apporaches him in a druken rage when he accidentally knocks some emty beer can down the stairs. Icare accidentally closes the stair hatch in fear on his mother and loud crash, implying his mother's death is heard. Icare is then pictured in a police station ansering the gentle questions of a police officer named Raymond. He tells officer Raymond he wants to go by his mother's nickname for him: Courgette (translates to zucchini). Raymond takes courgette to a orphanage that is neither miserable nor joyous. One of orphans, a ginger named Simon bullies Courgette. Courgette comes to learn the various situations of each of his fellow orphans and eventually reveals his own situation. A new girl named Camille arrives at the orpahnage shortly there after and Courgette is immediately infatuated with her and they grow to become close friends quickly. However Camille's spitful aunt repeated tries to for Camille to come live with her so she can collect government benifits. However, when court day to review the custody case arrives, Simon redeems himself by playing a recording of how Camille's aunt talks to her, causing her aunt to have an outburst in court and lose the case. ect. ect.You should watch My life as a zucchini not only because it one of the few highquality stop motion animations made every year and its careful visual design, but for its simple and quiet, yet well developed and excellently excuted story. It's a welcome change in pace from the flambouyant action, flat charcter trophes, meaningless slap-stick dialogue, and massive, world-changing narrative archs that make up the majority of animated films. There is plenty of comedy, but it never detracts from or contradicts the scenes mood or distracts from the ongoing story. The focused and contemplative quietness of this film and the intense attention to the nuanced emotions its characters experience build both starkly sad and tenderly uplifiting moments with out betraying reality. It is only 66 minutes long and makes full use of every second. Also the ending credits song is fire - Le Vent nous portera, covery by Sophie Hunger. The (French) voice actors, particularly Gaspard Schlatter and Sixtine Murat who play the two main leads Courgette and Camille did an excellent job of bring to life a child's perspective. I haven't watched the English dubbed version, but I've heard it doesn't measure up to the orginal voice acting in French, so I'd reccomend watching the French version if you can.One review called "My Life as a Zucchini" undercooked? Its main complaint was that the "emotional heft of the film is unexpected and the problems some of characters face are nothing that a child should have to deal with" and they "don't know who'd I recommend this (film) to". While their observation that the cast of characters face disproportionately heavy problems despite their young age is true, it doesn't detract from the overall movie because the film's target audience was not necissarily elementary age children even though its main characters are. In fact, I don't think this movie is well suited to a very young audience (I think some parts are proabably too mature for kids under 12or13-ish). I think the main aim of the movie was not to provide high-energy entertainment aimed at children, but to explore the emotional complexities the characters face as result of their situation. These themes are presented in layered and often nuanced ways that only an adult or adolescent would be likely to pick up on or find interesting. Another criticism of My Life as a Zucchini is that its story, which starts as a tragic orphanage situation is too cliche. While this criticism is fair in that the story does have a cliche set up, the way in which the characters navigate and cope with their situation and their emotional complexities is thoroughly explored, well executed, and ultimately very heartfelt.

kimd-38939 I randomly stumbled across this movie while surfing Netflix, and I'm so glad I watched it!First off, the plot is quite simple. It's essentially about a young orphaned boy, Courgette (Zucchini), who finds love and friendship during his time at an orphanage. Having watched many films with complex plots, I found the simplicity of "My Life as a Courgette" to be very refreshing. In terms of the characters, I found all of them to be very believable/realistic. Additionally, I was able to empathize with every character (except for the evil ones, haha). In this regard, I must give a lot of credit to the voice actors as they brought so much life and emotion to these characters!I also want to add that the animation is relatively low-key, which I believe actually enhances the simplistic nature of this film. I must, however, warn you that the animation is a bit choppy. I personally didn't mind this, but it may not be everyone's cup of tea. Overall, this movie is short and sweet. With a runtime of only 66 minutes, it's great to watch if you're not in the mood for a long movie. Many important themes - such as child abuse and love - are explored, and the movie does a beautiful job following a young boy's journey. I highly recommend you give this movie a try!

Pjtaylor-96-138044 'My Life As A Courgette' is an emotionally mature and charming little stop-motion picture that tells its positive and uplifting small-scale story in a breezy 67- minutes without wasting a single beautiful frame; it's refreshing to see a piece of family entertainment that deals with some pretty heavy themes and tackles them fairly head on without ever letting them weigh it down, and it's this that sets it apart from the others in the genre as it allows the picture to feel truly genuine and for it be truly touching too, providing a proper connection to the central children with whom we both laugh and cry. 7/10

marianajb The way they made this film was very original, and good originality is very valuable and worth watching. I love stop-motion, in this is an excellent stop-motion, because of everything in the film impressed me. The characters are very original, even the name that the main character has is amazing. The screenplay embraces so many genuine topics, as love and the different ways it can be shown; it has humor but it also wants to make you cry and fall in love with each character. The production is incredible, amazing, out of this world; and I couldn't ask for more, it made me want to cry because of this simple but outstanding production! This motion picture is really worth watching, is very touching; and if I could only watch one movie for the rest of my life it will be this one.