Distributors: The Weinstein Company Production Co.: Avalanche Productions (France) Buf Inc. Release Date: December 15th, 2006 (LA) January 12th, 2007 (wide) MPAA Rating: PG for fantasy action and brief suggestive material. Genres: Art/Foreign, Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Animation and Adaptation Running Time: 1 hr. Also Known As: Arthur Arthur Et Les Minimoys Arthur and the Minimoys Arthur et Les Minimoys Production Status: Released Logline: Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfather's house from developers, goes in search of treasure hidden in the land of the Minimoys, a tiny people living in harmony with nature. Together they set off to look for the treasure that will save his grandma. Arthur ventures into this world of the Minimoys, where he meets Princess Selenia and her brother Betameche. The creatures that inhabit this world are just a tenth of an inch tall and live in perfect harmony with their environment. Maybe the solution lies in his grandpa's treasure, which is hidden somewhere on the "other side" in the land of the Minimoys. Ten-year-old Arthur has a lot on his plate: a real estate developer is about to snap up his grandma's home-and there's no way Arthur's going to hang around for his parents or grandparents to sort out the problem. Hmm.Princess Selenia (voiced by Madonna) in The Weinstein Company's Arthur and the Invisibles - 2007 Although that would have required Madonna to have a budding romance with a ’tweenage boy. His latest film, Arthur and the Invisibles, is a forgettable mlange of King Arthur, Neo from The Matrix, all of the Harry Potter books that include. There are so many famous names that the question arises: Would this movie have been more enjoyable with the real humans instead of just their voices? Yes. But many of the voices are familiar: Madonna, Jimmy Fallon, Snoop Dogg, David Bowie, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and other famous names provide them. It’s also too frenetically paced and confusing for adults or children. The computer-generated world is visually rich, but short on the droll humor that makes good children’s films bearable for adults. Arthur manages to shrink himself to near-invisibility so he can enter a secret world and search for some gems that will solve all the problems.Īt this point the film becomes computer-generated, and also resembles, at various times, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” “The Sword in the Stone,” “Fraggle Rock” and assorted others. ![]() The film begins in the conventional human world of the early 1960s, where Arthur (Freddie Highmore) and his grandmother (Mia Farrow) have troubles galore: Grandpa went missing a few years ago, and developers are on the verge of taking over the family homestead. The press packet for “Arthur,” a children’s film directed by Luc Besson, includes lots of tidbits on the magic that enabled the merging of live actors and a computer-generated world, but who can really keep track of this technogoo anymore, or get excited about it? The real question isn’t how these hybrid movies are made, but why. In the latest wowzer merging of the real and the fabricated, “Arthur and the Invisibles” takes actual human actors and, through a complex process involving Slim-Fast and a Maytag dryer, shrinks them to the size of bacteria so they can interact with the microscopic beings who live in your backyard along with Rick Moranis and his family.
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