#Arthur e os minimoys full#

#Arthur e os minimoys full#

With multiple chase scenes and a dicky tummy full of eye candy, Part 2 promises a parade, and then delivers one on crack. Then, just to make matters that much more uncomfortable, Snoop Dogg returns as a Rastafarian creature whose lingo argues for some kind of indirect racism. There is a sequence involving Arthur's rescue of Selenia's brother Prince Betameche that imagines a Minimoy city as part Las Vegas, part Element's New York City. But in the tightly monitored make believe department, it's all haphazard Hellsapoppin' anarchy. He keeps the live action material loose and fancy free, allowing someone like Mia Farrow (as a weirdly sympathetic grandma) a lot of leeway. For the most part, Besson understands this. The former, unfortunately, takes place mostly in the Minimoy's world, and it's in this aggravating example of art direction OD where the sequel just stalls. The latter uses an intriguing narrative gimmick - the statuesque CG Maltazard running around the live action world - to keep things fun.and more importantly focused. This is obvious when watching Parts 2 and 3 back to back. He mans epics where scope overpowers storytelling and busyness baffles the intent.

He creates doilies where a simple throw will do. Oh sure, they're inventive and engaging, filled with a kind of pixie dust imagination that seems perfect for capturing the kiddies' attention, but Besson is also a very forceful and fussy filmmaker. Indeed, with Pixar pumping out the perfection and other studio subcontractors like Blue Sky delivering the rot in Rio, something so very European as the Arthur efforts just can't compete. Logic would dictate that, where at first you don't succeed, perhaps give up. For his part, Besson would argue that any replacement voice work is the decision of a US studio system trying to micromanage a hit out of what is basically a wistful work of visual wonder. In their place are Selena Gomez, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and.well, it really doesn't matter. Gone are talents like Madonna, David Bowie, Jason Bateman, and Robert DeNiro. There have been a few changes in the world of Arthur and his garden variety Minimoy pals in the last few years. With giant mosquitoes threatening the populace, the boy must find a way to save the day as well as his beloved Princess Selenia's kingdom. Then, he will use the teleportation device/system that Arthur has access to and transport himself up to the planet's surface.ДЄrthur and the Invisibles 3: The War of the Two Worlds (Score: ****) - with Arthur still shrunk down to less than a millimeter and stranded among the Minimoys, Maltazard runs ramshackle all over his town. The storylines involved are as follows:ДЄrthur and the Invisibles 2: The Revenge of Maltazard (Score: **1/2) - still smarting from his defeat by Arthur, Maltazard devises an evil plan to get the human boy back down into the world of the Minimoys. The first film combined the initial two books, while these cover the last pair. That's right, just like the sci-fi folly of Element (great to look at, a nightmare to make sense of), Arthur's adventures come from the filmmaker's own literary efforts. With a few voice work cast changes and a slightly more cartoonish bent, the two films that make up the rest of this triptych all take their material from Besson's own books. While new distributor Fox maintains many of the Americanized version's viable faults, these direct to DVD sequels seem much more in tune with Besson's vision - for better and for worse. Three years later, he decided to return to the director's chair to complete his planned Arthur trilogy. and the Minimoys as part of the label), The Weinstein Company eviscerated it before release, citing poor focus group reaction to the fantasy's frilly love story. While the rest of the planet got Besson's preferred cut of Arthur (complete with. One of the reasons was the rash reception the latter film received in the West. With his final two films - the live action Angel-A and the combo CG fantasy Arthur and the Invisibles, he bid goodbye to the limelight and resolved himself to a place behind the scenes. A few years back, prolific populist French filmmaker Luc Besson ( The Fifth Element, Leon) 'retired.' The plan was to sit back, produce and write, and basically avoid the rat race that was the international motion picture business and the warts and all battles he had to fight.