Ameriatch One of the best films i have seen

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

palavitsinis Amazing scenery, well-made characters and lots of delicate humour that won't make you fall out of your chair, but will work overall. Such a cute movie with an unexpected protagonist, that you cannot even dislike a little bit! Nice idea, really special, with Paris as the perfect setting, as well as the era in which it evolves which is one of my favorites in such movies! This is a movie that you won't regret watching, it's a cartoon really fit for small children as well, despite all these horrible concepts that come out once in a while that can give nightmares even to grown ups. This is one of my favorite cartoons of 2015 - cause I actually discovered it a bit late!

MartinHafer In the US, the DVD for this film only has the English language version of this French cartoon. The same goes for Netflix. Interestingly, in Canada BOTH versions come on the DVD and I wish we had that option here in the States.The story is odd to say the least. A flea is accidentally dosed with some chemicals and grows to human-size--larger, actually. However, an odd lady chanteuse falls sorry for the nice bug and helps hide him from baddies who want to destroy him and have convinced most everyone that the flea is a horrible monster. Together with her two male friends, the three humans have adventures with the flea and explore the streets and neighborhoods of Paris.The plot to this film is okay, but what really impressed me was the nice computerized graphics. The film is nearly as nice looking as a Dreamworks or Pixar film but also has a look about it that is uniquely French. I particularly liked seeing Montmartre and Sacre Coueur--magnificent places that look even better in this nice film.Overall, an enjoyable film that probably would appeal more to older children than young ones due to the style of characters and types of songs in the movie.

Angels_Review I pretty much fell in love with the storyline of this movie. The whole idea of a small bug showing the world that he was more human then some humans even… it might be cliché but the way they did this was a bit of a Frankenstein meets Phantom of the Opera meets comedy. I was only surprised that I never heard about it before I looked through my friends Netflicks the other day. I guess part of it is because it came out in France first but we have some rather good voice actors from around here and this is one of the reasons I wanted to review this as soon as possible.The story sort of follows four characters in Paris of 1910 and there sort of romance that happens. We have Maud (a troubled young cinema worker) his friend Raoul (a delivery boy), and a rather beautiful singer named Lucille. With those only being three, you could ask me who the fourth is. The strange thing is that it is a small flea that suddenly becomes big because of a strange super fertilizer a scientist created. Because of the mixture of the fertilizer and a 'Atomize-a-Tune' mixture, the flea is able to sing rather beautifully and all he wants to do is sing. Lucille gives him the beautiful name Francoeur meaning 'honest heart' and that is when the story really takes off. With the whole city against Francoeur, the only friends who actually take it upon themselves to save him are these three humans. It's rather heartwarming to see the characters trying to help and the rather comedic personality's of them play off rather well. Not only do we have a creature feared by the city, we have a flea trying to understand the world around him and why everyone seems to hate him.Raoul I think is where most of the comedy comes from since he tries to be more then he is. In a little bit of comparison, he is much like Francoeur in that aspect, just trying to get by and be what he isn't. And their reasons aren't that different either where one is love of music and the other seems to be love of another character.The animation is pretty fluid but the proportions of the characters are a little cartoony. I guess it works pretty well but Maud reminds me a lot of a leprechaun. He is dressed all in green and has slightly bright brownish orange hair with large side burns. Added to how short he is to any of the other characters, I'm slightly surprised they didn't try to give him a Scottish accent. The design of Francoeur is pretty nice because he does look very Frankenstein-ish even in his clothing. He has rather broad shoulders, almost no neck, and thin legs and arms. Added to the 4 arms and bright yellow eyes, it's pretty understandable why everyone thinks of him as a monster. Side characters are commendably stereotypical of this kind of animation. Textures are pretty nice and make me remember clay animations with how nice they look. If you like Tim Burton's stuff, you will definitely like the designs of this movie.The music and voice acting is really good to me even though it was translated from the French version. They did a rather good job making the songs sound rather pretty and fluid even though you don't really understand what the song is about. I think it might have been a little easier to understand if I knew French but still. The voice actors really made the story fun since they had so much emotion to almost everything they said. For both Francoeur and Lucille were voiced by famous singers in the French version; when they brought it over to the English version, they did exactly the same. Vanessa Paradis is amazing in the fact that she did both the French and English version of Lucille and for Francoeur, his singing voice was done by none other then John Lennon and Yoko Ono's only son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon. He has the perfect voice for a singing flea. Other voice actors include Adam Goldberg and Catherine O'Hara to make it a rather fun comedic movie.

wewilsons Clearly NOT an American production. The graphics are decent, the characters are fairly developed, the motions of the characters is a little stiff. SO why did I like it so much ?The culture is very cool. The humor is subtle, you must pay attention. The hints woven throughout the story are subtle. The artwork arouns France is very beautiful. They paid super attention to foggy, turn of the century Paris. Nicely doneBUT the real magic is in the singing, music and dancing. The characters, particularly Lucille, come to life in the song and dance. Lucille's motions while performing are better than anything I have seen come from any other animated movie. The subtle swirl of her dress, her hips perfect movement in rhythm, her facial expressions, hand motions are immensely cool. My daughter and I cranked up the stereo and watched her first number several times over and over. If this is what we can expect from French animated movies. BRING IT ON. Once you get past the rough edges of the character animation and some of the character development, the story and music have a pizazz dialed in that makes this a classic. VERY COOL. give 'er a spin.