Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec)2010
Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec) (2010)
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Cast
as Adèle Blanc-Sec
as Dieuleveult
as Inspector Caponi
as Justin de Saint-Hubert
as Prof. Ménard
as Zborowski
as Choupard
as President Fallières
as Agathe Blanc-Sec
as Espérandieu
as Akbar
Critic Reviews for Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec)
All Critics (25) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (4) | DVD (1)
It all plays on one note of droll flippancy, which, while pleasingly mordant, is all style and very little substance.
So good-natured that whether the audience are smiling delightedly or groaning inwardly, all will be enjoying its visual beauty and plucky spirit.
This is what comic-book movies look like when they're not blown up into $200 million monstrosities: friendly and eldritch and kinda cosy even in the middle of outrageous escapades.
The film lacks the more corrosive aspects of [Jacques] Tardi's work, but Besson replaces it with something that gives the story a larger shape and meaning.
Visually impressive old-school fun, anchored by a charmingly confident performance from Louise Bourgoin.
[Blu-ray Review] It's got first-rate, photorealistic CGI effects, fine period art direction and costumes, and features an irresistible lead performance.
Audience Reviews for Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec)
Not my taste at all, but okay for what it was. Far fetched French fantasy with plucky likeable heroine.
Super Reviewer
Uninspired, with odd attempts of humor and an unlikable heroine, this adventure wants to be a French Indiana Jones but fails on pretty much every level. Even for a film with fantastic elements, the plot holes are huge and the unlikeliness keeps adding up to a degree where this is merely a comedy. At least the special effects are somewhat decent, but when the entire cast of characters consists of idiots or arrogant pricks, there is little to hang on to. Disappointing.
Super Reviewer
In 1911, novelist and adventuress Adele Blanc-Sec seeks an ancient Egyptian cure to bring her twin sister out of her coma. Luc Besson's attempt to make an Indiana Jones-style blockbuster infused with French whimsy doesn't always click, but any movie that features both a pterodactyl and a mummy has something going for it.
Super Reviewer
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