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A Town Called Panic

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A Town Called Panic (2009)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:10

Rotten:2

Average Rating:7.6/10

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Childrens

Theatrical Release:Dec 16, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: Audience Award Winner at Fantastic Fest 2009 and the first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A Town Called Panic follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three... Audience Award Winner at Fantastic Fest 2009 and the first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A Town Called Panic follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events. Each speedy character is voiced—and animated—as if they are filled with laughing gas. With hysteria a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine paramour—flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray (Jeanne Balibar)—ever find a quiet moment alone? A sort of Gallic Monty Python crossed with Art Clokey on acid, A Town Called Panic is zany, brainy and altogether insane-y! --© Zeitgeist [More]

Starring: Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubier, Bruce Ellison, Benoit Poelvoorde

Starring: Vincent Patar, Stephane Aubier, Bruce Ellison, Benoit Poelvoorde, Jeanne Balibar, Veronique Dumont, Frederic Jannin, Nicolas Buysse, Bouli Lanners, David Ricci

Director: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar

Director: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar
Screenwriter: Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Vincent Tavier, Guillaume Malandrin
Producer: Vincent Tavier, Philippe Kauffmann
Composer: Dionysos
Studio: Zeitgeist Films

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A refreshingly zany, clever, funny and truly bizarre comedy of errors that will delight audiences, young and old.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
12/19/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

It's almost consistently amusing, if never quite laugh-out-loud funny.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
12/17/09
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

It’s more clever than funny, but it’s very clever.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
12/17/09
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

There are more sophisticated animated films out there, but none with the sheer joie de vivre that this Belgian stop-motion-animation entry packs into 75 rollicking minutes.

Full Review Source: Hollywood & Fine | comment Comment
12/16/09
Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine
Hollywood & Fine

Once you get over the droll joke of seeing an equine Web surfer wearing a bathrobe and sipping his morning coffee, the movie settles into a shrill groove from which it never escapes.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment 1 Comment
12/16/09
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

A Town Called Panic, which has more strident colors and less synopsizable action than a year's worth of comic-book adventures, embodies a sensibility that might be termed "extreme quirk."

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
12/15/09
J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
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If you want more crass parody, and more creative use of action figures, check out Robot Chicken

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment 4 Comments
12/15/09
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

It’s silly, of course, but also wildly inventive and oddly adult.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
12/15/09
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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The film posits an endlessly malleable universe whose objects can be remade nearly as fast as they're destroyed.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
12/15/09
Andrew Schenker
Andrew Schenker
Slant Magazine

A deliriously wild and totally charming ride from start to finish, as Cowboy, Indian and Horse charge all over the world in a whimsical assault of fun.

Full Review Source: Screenwize | comment Comment
12/11/09
Simon Weaving
Simon Weaving
Screenwize

[A] goofy, hilarious stop-motion fable.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
12/11/09
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
Boxoffice Magazine

An amazing head trip, a glorious journey right inside a semi-innocent imagination

Full Review Source: CHUD | comment Comment
12/07/09
Devin Faraci
Devin Faraci
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