"The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele BlancpSec" is the latest Luc Besson film. Besson has lately turned to writing, handing off direction to others, for example the successful "Transplorter" and "Banlieu-13" franchises. However, here he has returned to the role of writer/director which he has not done since "Angel-A".
When we look at his great films of the past, "Leon - the Professional", "Angel-A" and to some degree "The Fifth Element" we start to expect an action comedy romance. Of course others of his followers would say "La Femme Nikita", "Danny the Dog", "Le Dernier Combat" do not fall into that line at all.
Adele Blanc-Sec is a sad and layered story of an Edwardian almost Lara Croft.character, a female Indian Jones if you will permit, in a story of magic and mummies which, though following a very different story, has all the charm and elegance of "The Professors Daughter".
Though a pterosaur in Paris seems quite out of place, and the CG of the mummies is a little stiff ( but then, are they not stiff?) this is a fun and enjoyable little adventure. Don't go looking for any earth shattering revelations about humanity.
Rated D/A
Just got the DVD, sadly no extra features, but one thing I noticed was a lot of the animation looked like animatronic or stop motion rather than CG.
ReplyDeleteThe airline version was uncut, just fuzzed.