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It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

A wonderful little film that works on many levels: 1. A mix of live action and animation which instantly puts it in rarified space. Very few films like this have ever been attempted.2. A Python-esque story coming from ... France? The Brits would be horrified. And it works well.3. Has the intense dialog and blown-up social comedy that Euro films are known for. That works too.4. Story is clever, the protagonist has trouble distinguishing between reality and sleep -- a condition, his mother says, he has had since a child. Also works well.5. Casting is fascinating. The guy played by Gael García Bernal is an Alain Delon look-a-like and everyone in the story knows it. Looking great (in film and I think real life) gives him the right to do outrageous things and get forgiven. But the love interest in this quirky (and fun) rom-com arc is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg who is appealing and simpatico but not conventionally beautiful. Again, this works well.6. Of course -- you knew this! -- the writer and director are one and the same, Highly creative films like this always are the work of a single creative mind.A lost gem.

This film was not your typical drama movie, It had very unusual scenes as the main character Stèphane was intensely entranced by his very own dreams and his unique imagination. He also happens to be in love with a French woman who he feels he can show his personal dream and reality world to. The women he falls in love with happens to have the name Stèphanie. Its fate for them to get married! Stèphane meets this women at his job which he works for a calendar- making firm. After multiple times of Stèphanie telling Stèphane how much she loves him, he still does not trust her and every time he sees her with another man he will go "crazy". After time goes by both of them slowly become less attracted to one another. Stèphane still loved her but Stèphanie found it was to hard to deal with him and his crazy dreams. This fantasy drama film had me confused at times but it overall was a great movie that had me entertained the whole time! Im glad I was able to watch this film in my class at school!

A wildly original film tells you all the plot you need to really know in the early minutes. Our protagonist is a immature underachiever who finds himself amongst those of the same ilk. they are a society of people who accept mediocrity as a passing phase where our young man/boy has his fulfillment and adventure in his dreams. His apartment is transformed into a late night TV set where his confidence and communication skills are highlighted where in real life he can be equally creepy and charming. The language changes are abundant and often cause an audience reaction to wonder if this is a dream or reality. This fantasy is short on Hollywood satisfaction but endless in dreaming non-sense. IFinding this as interesting without being clearly meaningful is difficult but peeked my interest none the less and I'm glad I finally got my hands on the DVD

Tried watching this last night and gave up after forty minutes, which I don't do often. Although Gondry has done some beautiful work here with stop-motion animation thats a feast for the eye, the story plays like an exhausted hallucination, disjointed and frustrating, much of it owing to the lack of chemistry between the characters and the sheer confusion of the dialogue.It's hard to put into words the train wreck this film is. It was all too much. Too much scenery, too much thought, too much into every scene to try and get what was going on.Not for me.