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Free Jimmy (2006)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:1
Rotten:9
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: A weird, misfiring, Norwegian animated mess of a film. Unsure of who its target audience is, it misses every target.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Roy Arnie has a dream. One day he will run his own circus and conquer the world. Today, however, he is a stable hand working in the Circus Stromowski. Roy Arnie invites his buddies to come and work... Roy Arnie has a dream. One day he will run his own circus and conquer the world. Today, however, he is a stable hand working in the Circus Stromowski. Roy Arnie invites his buddies to come and work at the circus. He introduces them to the star attraction: Jimmy the elephant. Formerly a great sight, he has become addicted to every drug. Jimmy is the key to Roy Arnie’s dreams. -- © Cannes Film Festival [More]
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kyle MacLachlan, Simon Pegg, Samantha Morton
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kyle MacLachlan, Simon Pegg, Samantha Morton, Jim Broadbent
Director: Christopher Nielsen
Director: Christopher Nielsen
Screenwriter: Christopher Nielsen, Simon Pegg
Reviews for Free Jimmy
This adult-orientated, computer-generated animation isn’t an especially successful outing but still serves as an impressive antidote to the Disney-Pixar norm.
Norway may be wonderful for many things but feature-length animation currently isn't one of them.
Free Jimmy is a sledgehammer Norwegian animation that metes out all manner of cruelty to dumb animals, not least the ones in the audience.
They say an elephant never forgets. But even the most anally-retentive pachyderm would be desperate to banish this misfiring mess to the darkest reaches of memory.
The brief relationship that the escaped elephant forms with a resourceful moose is oddly touching, but the fatuities surrounding it ensure that any deeper involvement is unlikely.
But the characters don’t add to the conception. Nor does the basic animation.
Pic could be too dark, dirty and insufficiently funny to achieve more than cult success.
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