A grotesque and dark adult fairy tale featuring nightmarish freaks preying on children of the streets!

A stunning visual feast for the eyes! Creativity and imagination are above and beyond my wildest dreams!

Jaws drop! Hearts skip a beat!

As this magnificent masterpiece reveals its fascinating and intricate attention to details that will leave you wide eyed and reveling in the rediscovery of your sense of wonder and unbridled imagination!

Naughty Approved!

Birth Year Challenge 12/22

“Who has stolen the child’s dream? The mad genius Krank in his evil scheme. To what vicious depths will he not descend? Will the tale turn to tragedy... or have a happy end?”

A beautifully unsettling fairy tale brought to life before your very eyes. Childlike in its simplicity and masterful in its subtlety. Eerily sepia and rusted landscapes filled with wildly memorable characters with names like “The Octopus” “The Cult of Cyclops” “One” and “The Diver”. A visual treat of matte paintings, marvelous set design, practical machines, early cgi, fisheye lens, all within a unique and frightening world.

The perfect dark fairytale for burgeoning young fantasy/sci-fi fans.

Avant-Garde Expressionism through a child’s eyes.

A very imaginative and dark steam-punk fantasy tale. Loses a little focus from time to time and has some dated CGI moments but a great experience overall.

Truly beautiful looking film with such imagination, however the plot is a rather intangible thing.

so narratively and structurally this is a mess by all accounts. it's a bit too ambitious for its 108 minute runtime, so lots of elements feel rushed or underdeveloped. and the way the film moves is a bit herky-jerky and scene transitions generally feel abrupt. I really don't think it's the grand ensemble piece that it wants to be.

that being said, from a production design standpoint this is really a gold standard which is absolutely unsurprising from a Jeunet/Caro collaboration. it also features Jean-Louis Trintignant in perhaps his greatest role as a brain in a jar on wheels. highly recommended for the visual aspects alone.

I will not rest until Ron Perlman plays Archie Andrews

A bizarre dark fantasy movie featuring The Man himself, Ron Pearlman.

Ehh, heavily disappointed with this, Jeunet went from the near masterpiece that is Delicatessen to this, while only keeping the great visuals from his first movie, everything else was a downgrade here. Borderline boring, I just wasn’t invested in the plot and some side characters (mainly the evil twin sisters); also has those butterfly effect-like moments which he basically uses in all of his movies, to much lesser success on here since it all seems so forced and random. And how this movie made Ron Perlman look like a bad actor, seriously he didn’t even have to do/say much but you could tell he was acting, and that is always a bad thing. I’ll give it a bit of praise for its delicate and warm looks in what is now a known classic Jeunet style.

I love a good film that's both pitched to a child-like mindset, but also ridiculously inappropriate for said children, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet has spent a good chunk of his career doing that.

I do wish I had watched this over Christmas, but at least I've got another alternative film for next December.

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