Amelie
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Movie Reviews of Amelie
Movie Review: Love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
ONE OF MY FAV. MOVIES! =)
SO SWEET AND MAGICAL, AND WEIRD TOO ... A LOVELY FRENCH FILM THAT DESERVES YOUR ATTENTION.
Movie Review: So dang cute I can't stand it
Summary: 2 Stars
Well, I suppose the people who love this film about an impish gamine pixie and the ones who don't will just have to agree to disagree. While many feel that director Jean-Pierre Jeunet displays a light, joyful touch in this film, I felt that he was trying to cram his sense of whimsy down my throat and I couldn't help gagging on it. When I feel that my life is lacking in cuteness, I have some pictures of kittens sitting in baskets that I can look at instead of spending a couple of hours with this film.
But then, I don't like "E.T." either, so clearly I am out of step with what warms the cockles of most movie-goers' hearts. So bear that in mind when you are deciding whether to pay attention to this review.
Movie Review: Very watchable
Summary: 3 Stars
It's a fine movie. It's not "5 Acadmy Award Nominations!" fine the way the DVD cover blasts at you, but it's a fine movie. Unique color scheme, a wry dry narrative wit that I love, and an allegorical tale that doesn't forget the importance of character development or plot the way that most allegories do. It moves at a nice fast pace, and both narrative and dialogue were written by someone who cares about the words. Maybe it's a little twee, but so what? I recommend it. It's miscast as a comedy, but it is funny, and it doesn't really fit comfortably into any genre, so what the heck, call it a comedy and enjoy it.Movie Review: Amelie
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is so fun to watch and so well done. I never used to be a fan of foreign films, but this one makes reading the subtitles worth it.Movie Review: Leaden whimsy
Summary: 1 Stars
Am?lie is a frenetic bore that insists on its audience's adoration while making no demands upon their intelligence. The story is simplicity itself: Am?lie (Audrey Tautou), a waitress, lives in a strangely depopulated, deracinated Montmartre and longs for love. A waif with bobbed hair and pooling eyes, Am?lie looks like a silent-movie heroine, and for two tiring hours exercises an emotional range redolent of those primitive early entertainments -- she smiles at the camera, widens her eyes, crinkles her mouth. Because the film's director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, is more of a watchmaker than a poet of the heart and soul, however, there is no mystery to how she finds love, only a series of intricately choreographed, Rube Goldberg-like set pieces in which Am?lie flips the switch. This is too bad not only because Tautou can actually act (she's charming when she's not twinkling as she goes in for the kill), but because she was Jeunet's best chance to take the chill off his film, to modulate his relentless technical virtuosity with the pulse of real life.