An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters and other distractions. Legendary cartoonist Jacques Tardi's original stories perfectly recreate the intrigue, romance and excitement of one of the most tumultuous periods in history.
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Empire Magazine
Angie Errigo
“A romp magnifique, with enough thrills, giggles and pretty pictures to reward adventure-lovers who wouldn’t normally entertain the idea of taking in a treat with subtitles. Don’t miss the mid-credits postscript.”
24/04/2011
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The Daily Mail
Chris Tookey
“Bourgoin deadpans her way through a knowing, laugh-out-loud script and leavens her considerable feminine charms with slapstick clumsiness... Unflagging, funny and frequently frenetic, this is a rich slice of witty escapism with a heroine almost certain to be seen again.”
22/04/2011
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The Observer
Philip French
“It is a pleasure to look at, but the performances are heavy-handed rather than pleasantly stylised and the whimsy over-abundant.”
24/04/2011
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Time Out
Cath Clarke
“The movie is a gorgeous spectacle, and a good deal less saccharine than anything Hollywood is turning out, but hyperactively plotted and oddly cold.”
23/04/2011
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The Times
Kate Muir
“Adèle Blanc-Sec is basically Tintin meets Gertrude Bell in a whimsical tale of a comely Edwardian explorer, adapted from a comic book.”
22/04/2011
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The Sunday Times
Edward Porter
“This is a veritable museum of antique comedy, containing items even the youngest viewers will have seen before. Apparently, Besson wasn’t content to resurrect only mummies and pterodactyls: he has also assembled some of the most ancient, shrivelled jokes in history and tried to get them back in action. This lack of comic invention is a shame, because the film otherwise has lots of things going for it. Even with those dud gags, it’s breezily entertaining.”
24/04/2011
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Total Film
Tom Dawson
“Handsomely designed, with polished CG effects, Besson misses a trick by not making more of Adèle’s nemesis Dieuleveult (an unrecognisable Mathieu Amalric).”
20/04/2011
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The Guardian
Xan Brooks
“Luc Besson's ripping adventure yarn, lovingly drawn from the Jacques Tardi comic-book series, coasts in on a waft of burlesque acting and droll good humour, with each episode metaphorically framed by quotation marks. All of which is "fun" up to a point, although it rather draws the sting from the thrills and spills and makes us wonder where, if anywhere, Besson is leading us.”
21/04/2011
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The Independent
Anthony Quinn
“...a sufficiency of spills and thrills to keep the mood buoyant, and it's always a pleasure to look at... It would not be nearly so enjoyable, however, without this heroine, at once insouciant and passionate, better-looking than Indy and better-dressed than Lara Croft.”
22/04/2011
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The Financial Times
Antonia Quirke
“...complete twaddle, trafficking heavily in bad CGI (dinosaurs, mummies) and prosthetics (the divine Mathieu Amalric is in it apparently – but under which false nose?).”
20/04/2011
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