Strange and kind of meandering.
Arthur and the Invisibles
Adventure awaits in your own backyard.
2006 · 1h 34m · PG
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Luc Besson
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Arthur and the Invisibles
Overview
Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, tiny people living in harmony with nature.
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Top critics, in their words
A lazy fairy-tale pastiche reveling in mite-size cherubs, which cribs from gnomic mythology, elvish lore, Harry Potter, Arthurian legend and can't-pay-the-rent melodrama.
Luc Besson's half-baked live-action/animated fantasy looks like it was invented on the hoof: it's erratically plotted, poorly animated, overly derivative and too insufferably cute to interest anyone above undemanding toddler age.
Luc Besson has made a fair share of artfully bad movies. Arthur and the Invisibles -- half-live-action, half-CG kid's adventure -- is (by a hair) more bad-bad, like The Fifth Element, than good-bad, like The Big Blue.
While technically polished and adequately executed Arthur, like most of Besson's movies, is a strangely soulless experience.
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