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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

With some of the best sight gags imaginable, a man who needs to get to Monte Carlo from Paris, hitches a ride with a guy in a car. Remember, this automobile was being used in 1905, so what i would look like was pure guesswork. It starts out funny in that the two men are wearing these enormous fur coats. You can barely see them under all that fur. First, they dump gasoline all over the place. They leave with great fanfare, but the driver puts the car in reverse and runs over one of the crowd, literally flattening him. The people use tire pumps to blow him up again. Soon the men are on their way, driving over the tops of the Alps, causing damage all along the way, running over people, knocking over fruit stands, collapsing buildings, blasting through the border guards. One can see the roots of Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, and other physical comedians in these episodes. As bad as some of the animation, the sheer lunacy of this is great.

Adventurous Automobile Trip, An (1905) *** (out of 4)aka Le Raid Paris --Carlo en deux heuresExtremely entertaining work from Melies has a man wanting to get from Paris to Monte Carlo but the train is going to take him seventeen-hours so he agrees to go with another man with a special car that will get him there in two. That's pretty much the story to this 10-minute gem that contains some very good imagination from the French director as well as a couple great jokes re-used from previous movies. What I enjoyed most about this film is its pacing that's extremely good and certainly a lot better than some of the previous long films from Melies. The movie has a great flow that really allows the viewer to get caught up in what's going on and this certainly helps with the charm. One of the highlights of the film are when the men are filling up the car and they go to leave they accidentally have the car in reverse and run a man over. It smashes him like a pancake but they leave behind on air pump and you know what's going to happen from here. The special effects still hold up pretty well and the drive through the mountains in priceless. This here isn't one of the director's best known works but it deserves to be.

The automobile's role in trick films seems to have originated with Cecil Hepworth's "Explosion of a Motor Car" (1900). Méliès had previously made fun of it and its dangerous drivers in "The Impossible Voyage" (Le Voyage à travers l'impossible) (1904). And, the year following this film, "Paris to Monte Carlo" (or "The Adventurous Automobile Trip"), R.W. Paul and Walter Booth made perhaps the gem of the sub-genre with "The '?' Motorist". Additionally, these films are a precursor to the Keystone comedies.Extra-filmic narration (as viewers at the time would have had) would have been helpful in viewing this film, for without John Frazer's synopsis in his book "Artificially Arranged Scenes", I wouldn't have known that this film lampoons the then King of Belgium, Leopold II, who was renowned for being involved in car accidents. (He's even more infamous for the 10 million casualties under his Congo Free State, but this film isn't about that.) "Paris to Monte Carlo" begins in Paris, where the King decides to travel in his automobile to Monte Carlo. In just the second scene, after filling up the tank by pouring boxes of gasoline down a funnel, he reverses and runs a pedestrian over. This is followed by the comic routine of blowing the man back up with air pumps. Another man explodes because of impact with the automobile.Originally, "Paris to Monte Carlo" was made for the Folies Bergère, and it had over 300 performances there. According to Richard Abel ("The Ciné Goes to Town"), however, "these costly, hand-colored spectacle films returned less profit to Méliès than expected". Nevertheless, that Méliès had introduced cinema to such prestigious music halls seems to me to have been a significant, if not oft acknowledged, advance in the artistic and cultural acceptance of the art form. It was a step up from the fairgrounds, as well as the vaudeville theatres in America. Moreover, "Paris to Monte Carlo" is a slightly amusing film to this day, and displays a good sense of continuity and pacing, as the action continues in the same direction across scenes, including a miniature shot of the automobile crossing mountains.