Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Franp Franp Bécassine is one of the earliest French comic character ever published. Adapting it to the Cinema in the 21st century may not have been that easy. I found that the director, Philippe Vidal, succeeded in refreshing the figure. Bécassine is rendered as the naive, clumsy, good-hearted girl she had always been. Animation is classic but well done and pleasant. It's a movie for kids, with a simple plot, a linear story easy to understand, clear voices and a good moral. For children's 7 to 12. One detail : the original comic Bécassine did not had any mouth. Also, the original comic was mainly black, red and green on white strips. This animation is done with an overall orange and blue tone (which, however, fits well with Bécassine's dress). Two minor flows which only prove that there is room for an even better adaptation.

astnerk As some posters tell the story is cliché, the characters are stereotypes, the story is predictable etc.But, it's a really funny kid's film. Mine (8 and 11 years old) loved it. The foreign scenery, the French feeling of the figures, the sound and songs, the clumsy but lovely nanny, everything was fine for them. And for me.They laughed about her ride on a donkey, the repeating appearance of the driver, the stupid crooks. They felt with the little girl. I believe you have to see the film like a kid does, staying in present time. Don't think about the future, the next scene, just enjoy.

Alexander Barrios This is my first review, so i begin. I watched this "comic" animation on a bus travel, and i felt it was awful! The french have been known for many things, including food, wine and brainy, profound and dialog-ridden films, boring almost all the time. It seems that someone told the producers of this waste of time: "Hey, let's make an animation Disney-style, with songs, lot's of adventure, plot twists, and even some comic relief. It will be the bomb". Well, it bombed big time. What to begin with? Well, the main character, the "lovable" Becassine, it's a nanny that can't even take care of herself, falls down all the time, accidentally drops stuff but, oh surprise, she has acrobatic agility at the moments of peril. We've seen and suffered this kind of main characters for a long, long time. It's time to move on to something a little more challenging. Then, she is supposed to take care of a little girl whose father is a renowned archaeologist and is in an expedition in Norway, and somehow is betrayed by a nasty black market art trafficker. Clichés are scattered all through the movie, for example, you know immediately who is the villain because he has a goatee and somber eyes; you know the map to the treasure will somehow be mistakenly confused with a map to someones house because the papers are the exact same size and shape; that if the gardener spots the nanny at and unusual place while on vacation doing something weird, it will happen all the other times we spot the gardener on vacation anywhere else; two buffoons working for the trafficker mess everything all the time... Besides, all the characters lack charisma and have brains the size of a pea, the plot is so paper thin you can predict the next move almost all the time, and the ending, of course, is predictable. In short words, if you can avoid this foul smelling piece of french cheese, do it. It seems that those french guys thought it was going to be really easy to make a wholesome nobrainer that would make everybody laugh, yet they ended with a tasteless, uninvolved story better suited for a twenty-minute episode of Tin Tin. Leave it to the pros!. Does it seem that i hate french cinema? You're right, except if it includes Jean Reno and/or Gerard Depardieu, but not even they could've saved this time waster.