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I love this movie so much

To me, this movie is perfection.

Beautiful, moving film.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Segundo de Chomón really outdoes himself in this later fantasy effort for Pathé. After hearing the title, you'd probably be thinking, "uh-oh, there goes Chomón again, ripping off Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon." Indeed, only a year before this, the brilliant Spanish filmmaker had succeeded in making (pretty much) an exact copy of "A Trip to the Moon" which, to Méliès fans, is simply an outrage. "A Trip to Jupiter" is something entirely different and even more innovative.The story, while simple, sets up some very interesting effects. It follows a king who is greatly intrigued by the visions his royal astronomer shows him of the heavens (one of them being this lifelike moon face, probably inspired by the moon face in "A Trip to the Moon", which makes weird faces). Going to bed a moment later, the king begins dreaming he can climb a ladder into space and talk to the stars and planets! He jumps onto Jupiter, is captured by aliens (similar to what happens in "A Trip to the Moon") and meets their leader. The rest is history.While the films's color makes it look good, the effects are simply marvelous. One of the sequences near the beginning where the astronomer opens a large book and shows the king a view of the rope ladder going into space, I found amazing because I actually couldn't figure out how they did it. There was also a brief, though pointless, use of pixelation on Jupiter in which the king ran around like a maniac at inhuman speed (for whatever reason). More important though, these effects tell a story! Fans of Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon" will want to see this. Chomón's work needs to become more well-known.

This movie may be the most elaborate variation on the sort of film that Georges Melies made famous: his TRIP TO THE MOON. Segundo De Chomon pulls out all the stops with dozens of cuts, iris shots, drawn scenery, cycloramas, stop motion, acrobats, fireworks.... you name it, it's there.It was all about to be swept away. Melies had borrowed from every previous method of shows, from stage and magicians and magic lanterns. He had added in more tricks made possible by a motion picture camera. It was all going under in its elaboration. It had grown too unwieldy as a story-telling technique and it would all be replaced by something just as complicated but much more subtle: modern film grammar. It would use every one of these techniques to a greater or lesser extent. It would, however, look entirely different.