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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Segundo de Chomón, the director of this film, was by all means an imitator of Georges Méliès, the man of illusions and fantasies. I've seen lots of his work, and while most of it is not actually rip-offs, sometimes this guy outright copied his competitor's work. "Métempsycose" is not at all one of these, but several of Méliès's elements are borrowed. The bust at the beginning that comes to life was probably inspired by Méliès's "The Magician". The idea of babies coming from cabbages and roses wasn't new in the day as it had been used before by Alice Guy in her very first film "The Cabbage Fairy" (and reportedly that film is based on a myth about baby girls coming from roses and baby boys from cabbages).But, while indeed several ideas are borrowed from earlier films, this one is very disjointed. As the IMDb plot summary says (one I wrote myself) it's a magic act of transformations. However, each object has nothing too do with the next. First it's a bust, then dancing fairies, then a magic butterfly, then the woman's head again, and then the babies. It's a fairly decent show by the filmmaker but is terribly incoherent, remaining a rather mystifying film because it's so odd.