What extraordinary junk!

Second viewing 14 years later ---

Lovely to look at. And utter bore to actually watch.

I am constantly amazed how easy it is to dupe audiences into thinking they are seeing fine art when they are seeing a cartoon, and not such a good cartoon. ("Oh, Mon Dieu! The scene where that crazed slob MUST have a certain part ze chicken! Brilliant! Formidable! Etonnant!")

There is NOTHING to Amelie, either the character, whom I was never led to care about, or the film, which has NOTHING to say, beyond some kind of child-like message of...what? Hope? Faith? Dare I say it? Love?

(shudder)

This might be a nice film to show 12 year old girls, there's nothing that will harm them,I don't think, and the level of sophistication it demands is about right.

I would rather remove my own gall bladder with an oyster fork than ever see this tripe again.

Anyone agree?

A bientot!