VividSimon Simply Perfect

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

roystephen-81252 One of my greatest cinematic experiences. For me, cinema has always been about imagination, and I just love movies that send you a positive message about how imagination can set you free.Seeing the world through a child's eyes, turning even the darkest, most depressive of worlds into a world of wonder through the sheer power of dreams and unbridled imagination - that's pure magic.From a certain point of view, most of Jeunet's movies are about that, and with their wonderfully bizarre characters and environments, beautifully choreographed clockwork-action sequences, dreamlike colour palettes and unique camera angles, they are true successors to Terry Gilliam's best films (Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen).Totally unique and heart-warming, maybe even more so than Jeunet's other two great movies, Amélie and A Very Long Engagement.

mahsa a I am surprised by how this movie has received this rating! To me it was a very disappointing movie, sad, disturbing and meaningless! I like surreal movies as they can take imaginations and take it one step further. This movie though was not successful at all. As another review mentioned: Have you ever been disappointed by a book by a favourite author. I really admire John Wyndham's works and would include "Day Of The Triffids", "The Chrysalids" and "The Midwich Cuckoos" among SciFi classics, so I once read "Stowaway To Mars" (one of his earliest stories). After a few pages, I thought "This is rubbish, but it's by John Wyndham, so it's bound to improve" and kept on reading - it didn't get any better (if anything it got worse) and I eventually finished the book with an acute sense of disappointment.

SnoopyStyle The evil Krank (Daniel Emilfork), his dwarf wife and his clone minions children (Dominique Pinon) have a machine to steal the dreams of young children because Krank can't have dreams himself. One (Ron Perlman) is a strong man performer whose little brother Denree is kidnapped by Krank's underlings, the Cyclops. Miette (Judith Vittet) is a young street kid who ends up helping him.This has a lot of weird concepts on display. I can only describe this a outlandish mix of Dickensian poverty and a french grimy Jules Verne sci-fi with a good helping of weird surrealism. The visual is a good unique grim fairy tale but the story drags a little too much. It meanders and is confused. It is in love with its visual surrealism more than trying to make sense with the story. It should be a lot more simpler than what it is. It spends a lot of time luxuriating in the weirdness of the world and the villain.

writers_reign This makes Delicatassen - from the same writing-directing team - seem like Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm. It's been heavily reviewed on IMDb, well over one hundred posts and all those I read were favorable in the extreme. Alas, it didn't do anything for me but then grotesque fantasy isn't my thing and Jeunet and Caro clearly 'speak' to a lot of people. If you're prepared to put the hours in there's probably a plot of sorts to be unravelled but you need to suspend disbelief on Industrial strength. There is no suggestion from beginning to end of anything remotely resembling life as we know it and/or a recognizable landscape. The main setting appears to be something akin to a North Sea oil rig peopled by fugitives from the Weimar Republic crossed with the Stasi from post-war East Germany crossed with Cyborgs from Star Trek. Apparently the Head honcho is unable to dream for himself so his solution is to kidnap children and snatch their dreams. One muscle-bound circus strong man takes objection when his brother is a victim and goes in pursuit, picking up along the way a street-wise girl lately in the employ of a couple of Siamese Twin Fagins. Dominic Pinon, who is a regular in Jeunet movies, is on hand again. Weird? Check. Wacky? Check. Wonderful? Ah, there you have me.