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Sadly Over-hyped

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I found this very very boring especially for a kids film! Like I think kids would and wouldn't understand this film! They probably would understand a little detail on who the characters are but I don't think they would understand what it's really about.As an adult, I just think it wasn't that great or enjoyable to watch.Like any person would do if they watch a boring film, skip the rest and onto the ending which was also bad too!It really has been a disappointing movie night for me and I just think this is the worst movies I have ever in my life came across! I really with I could give this a zero instead of a one!

I have seen quite a few European animated features over the years and most of which, have been just about watchable.So when A Monster In Paris arrived, I was a pretty much in the same boat even before viewing... Regardless, I took our 2 kids along and was pleasantly surprised!Yes a few jokes fall flat, but hey - the attention to detail and musical numbers quickly take that away and leave you with a huge smile on your face. That noted, we watched it again last night and the kids are still singing the songs this morning...A Monster In Paris is a delightful family film, void of the over powering Disney Pixar and even Dreamworks moral crap that is thrust in our faces. This is just genuine fun and beautiful to watch!Enjoy!!

I pretty much fell in love with the storyline of this movie. The whole idea of a small bug showing the world that he was more human then some humans even… it might be cliché but the way they did this was a bit of a Frankenstein meets Phantom of the Opera meets comedy. I was only surprised that I never heard about it before I looked through my friends Netflicks the other day. I guess part of it is because it came out in France first but we have some rather good voice actors from around here and this is one of the reasons I wanted to review this as soon as possible.The story sort of follows four characters in Paris of 1910 and there sort of romance that happens. We have Maud (a troubled young cinema worker) his friend Raoul (a delivery boy), and a rather beautiful singer named Lucille. With those only being three, you could ask me who the fourth is. The strange thing is that it is a small flea that suddenly becomes big because of a strange super fertilizer a scientist created. Because of the mixture of the fertilizer and a 'Atomize-a-Tune' mixture, the flea is able to sing rather beautifully and all he wants to do is sing. Lucille gives him the beautiful name Francoeur meaning 'honest heart' and that is when the story really takes off. With the whole city against Francoeur, the only friends who actually take it upon themselves to save him are these three humans. It's rather heartwarming to see the characters trying to help and the rather comedic personality's of them play off rather well. Not only do we have a creature feared by the city, we have a flea trying to understand the world around him and why everyone seems to hate him.Raoul I think is where most of the comedy comes from since he tries to be more then he is. In a little bit of comparison, he is much like Francoeur in that aspect, just trying to get by and be what he isn't. And their reasons aren't that different either where one is love of music and the other seems to be love of another character.The animation is pretty fluid but the proportions of the characters are a little cartoony. I guess it works pretty well but Maud reminds me a lot of a leprechaun. He is dressed all in green and has slightly bright brownish orange hair with large side burns. Added to how short he is to any of the other characters, I'm slightly surprised they didn't try to give him a Scottish accent. The design of Francoeur is pretty nice because he does look very Frankenstein-ish even in his clothing. He has rather broad shoulders, almost no neck, and thin legs and arms. Added to the 4 arms and bright yellow eyes, it's pretty understandable why everyone thinks of him as a monster. Side characters are commendably stereotypical of this kind of animation. Textures are pretty nice and make me remember clay animations with how nice they look. If you like Tim Burton's stuff, you will definitely like the designs of this movie.The music and voice acting is really good to me even though it was translated from the French version. They did a rather good job making the songs sound rather pretty and fluid even though you don't really understand what the song is about. I think it might have been a little easier to understand if I knew French but still. The voice actors really made the story fun since they had so much emotion to almost everything they said. For both Francoeur and Lucille were voiced by famous singers in the French version; when they brought it over to the English version, they did exactly the same. Vanessa Paradis is amazing in the fact that she did both the French and English version of Lucille and for Francoeur, his singing voice was done by none other then John Lennon and Yoko Ono's only son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon. He has the perfect voice for a singing flea. Other voice actors include Adam Goldberg and Catherine O'Hara to make it a rather fun comedic movie.

When I started watching this movie with my kids, the first thing I notice was how simply the rendering really was, comparing this with Kung Fu Panda 2 is like comparing a 3D movie with a 2D movie. When the movie started developing it's characters and story it completely transformed my view of the movie.Just in the first 30 minutes, this movie completely surpassed Hollywood craps like Kung Fu panda 2 that only relies on spectacular FX to get away with not presenting creative ideas.This movie is simply stunning, so much detailed and heart was put into developing it's characters and their relations to their way of life. This movie is more about our human nature than it is about monsters, truly remarkable accomplishment.When you think you're watching a simply kid's movie you're actually watching a multi-layered work of art and art is what truly excels at this one!The movie truly shines in the art and visual styles, as much as it shines in the music department.If there is something worth mentioning about it's negative side is that there's not enough music in the movie, the "monster" which is a music artist really was asking for a lot more presence on scene showing his talents, rather than running away from people but, this is the way movie is developed and it is for a reason.A monster in Paris reflects our inner fears with what we perceived as "different" and how each one behaves in the presence of something different, some people will try to take advantage of the situation for personal gain and some will put their prejudices aside and show their unconditional love.Ultimately, this movie is adorable, the only thing I would change is the last pursuit scene, it's too long for my taste but it's not easily predictable and that accounts for the superb tension that it's created, hopefully the movie ends in a right note.This nice animated movie will surely touch your heart and is a remarkable work of art with a sense of justice and a lot of courage to show exactly how humans behave and what kind of traits we have in our hearts. A movie about values, friendship, music, art and with much heart in it.Once again, the rest of the world shows Hollywood that movies CAN be made with a nice script and characters we care for instead of bombarding our senses with FX, FX and more FX.A sure bet to all the family, 8 out of 10.