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

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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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Reviews for A Town Called Panic
It's almost consistently amusing, if never quite laugh-out-loud funny.
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.
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.
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."
If you want more crass parody, and more creative use of action figures, check out Robot Chicken
The film posits an endlessly malleable universe whose objects can be remade nearly as fast as they're destroyed.
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.
An amazing head trip, a glorious journey right inside a semi-innocent imagination
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