 "Watch it again and again!!" | 2010-03-10 |
| - Reviewed By Jeremy Thompson |
| One of the best movies! Awesome story, great acting, great actors. Cinematography A+, If you don't like this movie, something is wrong with you. I'm sorry, but that's just the truth. |
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 "Is Amelie French for Overrated" | 2010-03-10 |
| - Reviewed By Julian Kennedy from St Pete Florida |
Amelie: (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain): 6 out of 10: Sweet, light and sometimes a little irritating; this strangely adult fable starts out very strong and sinks under the weight of it's too cute for words protagonist and her self made predicament. Amelie is a strange bird indeed. She seems initially one of those wonderfully original creations but as time in the movie marches on it becomes obvious. She is a twelve-year-old girl in a woman's body.
Yup she has silly crushes plays silly pranks and a vivid imagination. In fact one could very much see her being played by a twelve year old. This would work perfectly if the movie wasn't so jarringly adult in other ways. (Amelie's quest works in a porn shop, people having hook-up sex in a daytime café)
It is more of a tone issue than any objection to adult content. (As a glance at most of my other reviews will testify.) Also like most twelve-year olds Amelie pulls pranks and games a little too long. (After the 2-hour mark or so I was practically screaming at the screen to get on with it)
Now don't get me wrong the first hour or so is one of the most delightful screen experiences. I loved the traveling gnome (which started a fad that lives on today) and liked the obsessive tape recording man in café.
It also shows a true fantasy version of Paris like You've You Mail's version of New York. In fact when Amelie is helping others rather than on her own quest the movie seems to move briskly and with purpose.
It is only in her pursuit of love that Amelie fails as both a person and a movie. Just like most twelve-year-old girls.
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| "Excellent Movie" | 2010-03-03 |
| - Reviewed By book lover from so. california |
| This is an excellent, light hearted movie. I bought it for my daughter and it is one of her favorites.Amelie |
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| "Sensational" | 2010-02-21 |
| - Reviewed By Musical Chairs from USA |
| I rarely watch something that I can say is utterly unique. Amelie is. To begin with, it's a lovely movie, visually. But what's more, it appeals to the sarcastic, embittered adult's humor while maintaining such a beautiful childlike innocence of character and plot line. Amelie is a whimsical, quiet girl, who likes to toy with those who are a part of the everyday world that she seems only to watch, never to quite fit in to. This movie awakened in me a sensation I often forget, but as a writer, need so desperately to cling to. |
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| "Neither here nor there" | 2009-12-21 |
| - Reviewed By fallout girl from Brooklyn, NY United States |
| This is a strange, silly little movie about... Well, nothing in particular. The description is misleading and just plain wrong - this isn't about a girl who does "benevolent acts". This is about one weird, introverted young girl who was raised by dysfunctional parents and is pretty much a psycho, albeit a charming one. She's not "doing good deeds", she pulling PRANKS on unsuspecting neighbors and random strangers. Some are cute and good-natured, others downright wrong and cruel (causing a guy to be electrocuted is hardly "benevolent", or funny for that matter). When she falls in love (or thinks she falls in love), she is incapable of communicating her feelings, so instead she stalks the poor bloke. The kind of person Amelie is might make you wonder if she perhaps had body parts stacked up in her freezer. Maybe that was the whole point, I don't know... Either way, I think it was the fact of the lead acress being so utterly, completely adorable that is this film's saving grace. Sure, it's whimsical, intriguing, funny, colorful, and has that goofy, surreal French flare all over it, but in the end... It's still about absolutely nothing. You expect some awesome, fantastic resolution to the events that unfold before you (even body parts in the freezer would've made it better). What you're left with is nothing. Not a bad film.... Just disappointing and pointless. |
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| "I adore this movie" | 2009-11-13 |
| - Reviewed By J. L. Twardowski from IL, USA |
| I was skeptical about this movie knowing that it was in french so I needed to watch it with English subtitles, but after watching this, it is my new favorite movie. This movie is so delightful and I feel like I can relate to Amelie so well. |
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