An average movie

Since Nick, my step-son, really wanted to see this movie, we even watched it in the movie theater when it was released. Basically, after many years without directing and instead producing a whole bunch of fairly successful but also really dumb action flicks, Luc Besson was finally back in the directing chair and he decided to direct an animation feature which was quite ambitious. To be honest, even though Luc Besson is definitely a talented director, I also think he is terribly pretentious and not only he wrote some children books but he decided to adapt them as well. The end-result was ‘Arthur et les Minimoys’ and I have to admit that it really looked amazing and, at the time, it was probably one of the most gorgeous CGI animated features I had ever seen. However, the story, as usual with Besson, was terribly weak and pedestrian and prevented the whole thing from being really amazing. Eventually, since the story was so weak, I was really amazed that he would come up with some sequels. As a result, once again, it looked quite gorgeous but the story was really not captivating. Still, if you are interested in animated movies, you may be interested otherwise you may pass on this one.

6/10