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Bursting with a colorful imagination befitting its promise-packed title, April and the Extraordinary World offers spectacular delights for animation fans willing to venture off the beaten path.
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Should appeal to precocious children... Adults may find it as derivative and simplistic as the steampunk aesthetic to which it's indebted, but for a gateway to more resonant cinema and literature, you could do worse. May 5, 2016 | Full Review…
Should appeal to precocious children... Adults may find it as derivative and simplistic as the steampunk aesthetic to which it's indebted, but for a gateway to more resonant cinema and literature, you could do worse.
Dmitry Samarov
April and the Extraordinary World will have your imagination doing somersaults and cartwheels. Apr 15, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
April and the Extraordinary World will have your imagination doing somersaults and cartwheels.
Tirdad Derakhshani
"April and the Extraordinary World" is a visual delight, an animated French steampunk adventure that is smart, exciting and wonderfully weird. Apr 14, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
"April and the Extraordinary World" is a visual delight, an animated French steampunk adventure that is smart, exciting and wonderfully weird.
Bill Goodykoontz
In truth, the story is practically beside the point with all the spectacular visuals. Apr 7, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
In truth, the story is practically beside the point with all the spectacular visuals.
Stephanie Merry
A delightfully deranged steampunk adventure. Apr 7, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A delightfully deranged steampunk adventure.
Ty Burr
Fun, fast-paced French film d'animation that manages to keep its ideas from getting lost amid the steampunk aesthetics, frequent chases, and occasional explosions. Apr 7, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Fun, fast-paced French film d'animation that manages to keep its ideas from getting lost amid the steampunk aesthetics, frequent chases, and occasional explosions.
Matthew Lickona
Pure enjoyment, but then I've always been in the bag for humanist sci-fi, lizards wearing robot armor, unusual and meticulous production design, and adventure stories where one of the heroes is a brainy woman and the other is a talking cat. Apr 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Pure enjoyment, but then I've always been in the bag for humanist sci-fi, lizards wearing robot armor, unusual and meticulous production design, and adventure stories where one of the heroes is a brainy woman and the other is a talking cat.
Daniel Barnes
I loved it, and I think it is a film that will improve with each viewing. Feb 11, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
I loved it, and I think it is a film that will improve with each viewing.
Rachel Wagner
It is compelling, not convoluted, and, best of all, takes place in an imagined steampunk world that is wondrous to behold. Aug 23, 2018 | Full Review…
It is compelling, not convoluted, and, best of all, takes place in an imagined steampunk world that is wondrous to behold.
Asia Frey
... at times I seemed to be seeing some kind of tribute to the adventures of Indiana Jones... [Full review in Spanish] Jan 16, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
... at times I seemed to be seeing some kind of tribute to the adventures of Indiana Jones... [Full review in Spanish]
Ernesto Diezmartinez
Imagine Oliver Twist meets Jules Verne as a whimsical fantasy fable, a film made for kids but clever and creative enough for adults. Oct 5, 2017 | Full Review…
Imagine Oliver Twist meets Jules Verne as a whimsical fantasy fable, a film made for kids but clever and creative enough for adults.
Sean Axmaker
In the manner of this kind of thing, the story is too complex to spell out, but it's as entertaining as the design of the film is compelling to look at. Sep 26, 2017 | Full Review…
In the manner of this kind of thing, the story is too complex to spell out, but it's as entertaining as the design of the film is compelling to look at.
M. Faust
The plot is disappointingly predictable, relying a lot more on Hollywood cliches than you'd expect . . . however, the film presents some of the most workable and stunning Steampunk imagery you're likely to find.
Super Reviewer
To be honest, the story is rather perfunctory. Ecological message movies preaching to save the planet are a dime a dozen. However beautifully hand drawn 2D animated features like this are not. Directors Franck Ekinci and Christian Desmares have fashioned a glorious universe in which the viewer can just get lost. Its strengths lie in visual delights that dazzle. They captivate the eye. My mind and emotions were less enthralled. The characters are cold and aloof, even the heroes. It's creative fun though. The action employs the character DNA of Japanese anime mixed with the science fiction of Jules Verne. Although a couple of humanoid lizards wearing robot armor were reminiscent of reptilian creatures in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Aesthetes who worship at the altar of the aforementioned passions will find themselves in cartoon nirvana. More casual fans of such things (this critic, for example) should be entertained as well, but on a somewhat lower level. fastfilmreviews.com
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