As a child I watched many old French comedies, which being old even in 80s and 90s, still were much fun because of legendary actors like Pierre Richard, Jean-Paul Belmondo Luis De Funes, André Bourvil etc. and typical French humor.
Watching The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec I had the feeling that some part of what I liked most about French comedies is right there, in this movie, but I also had the feeling that time to time, humor is forced, stretched and too artificial.
Actors do a nice job. They have this typically French expressiveness and gesticulative manner of interacting. They bring the comedy more by their facial expressions than by the words they say or acts they do.
Story is unbelievable but of course can past in the film like this, the problem is, even in fantasies, where you are allowed to make up anything, you still need to justify things somehow. The film fails in that, but it doesn't loose much because of that, cause anyway... Plot is not the most interesting part about this movie.
The film was slow paced time to time and jokes were ranging from good, to very flat. Overall, I can recommend this work to all fans on light-hearted comedies. This won't be your best ever movie, but you won't say you lost part of your life wasting either.
5 stars for the mediocre film + 1 star for the joke about pyramid (near the end of the film) = 6 stars overall.
Watching The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec I had the feeling that some part of what I liked most about French comedies is right there, in this movie, but I also had the feeling that time to time, humor is forced, stretched and too artificial.
Actors do a nice job. They have this typically French expressiveness and gesticulative manner of interacting. They bring the comedy more by their facial expressions than by the words they say or acts they do.
Story is unbelievable but of course can past in the film like this, the problem is, even in fantasies, where you are allowed to make up anything, you still need to justify things somehow. The film fails in that, but it doesn't loose much because of that, cause anyway... Plot is not the most interesting part about this movie.
The film was slow paced time to time and jokes were ranging from good, to very flat. Overall, I can recommend this work to all fans on light-hearted comedies. This won't be your best ever movie, but you won't say you lost part of your life wasting either.
5 stars for the mediocre film + 1 star for the joke about pyramid (near the end of the film) = 6 stars overall.