Feeling like lost little children in fabled lands…
To celebrate the nationwide release of
Nabbed at the NFT preview of the film in the UK, (01.22.2007 NEWS: INVISIBLES NFT UK PREVIEW WITH LUC BESSON Q&A) I have ten sets of posters, stickers and NFT info sheets to tempt you with.
The poster is A3 double-sided and has each of the above images on either side, but with slightly different wording. The stickers (below) are A4 sheets with nine stickers on each and the NFT A4 info sheet is handy if you want to pretend you were at the preview with Luc Besson.
Speaking of Luc, during the Q&A at the NFT he did say that he intends to make another two instalments of
I spoke to him afterwards and asked if he would be using the same voices for the next instalments, to which he replied: “I hope so.” So watch this space for any further developments on that.
He also emphasised that
So with that in mind, I dragged my 12-year-old son, Merlin, along to see the film, and he kindly dashed off the following review…
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Arthur and the Invisibles ? A review by Merlin (12)
I am reviewing the preview of Arthur and the Invisibles, which was hosted in London at the National Film Theatre (NFT).
The film is a mix between quite realistic animation and actual film swapping from real film in the real world and animation in the land of the Invisibles. It begins in real film where it follows the story of the young boy Arthur (Freddie Highmore) who loves to dream and fantasise about all of his missing grandfather?s adventures in Africa. While his grandfather had been gone, his grandma found it difficult to pay off the house. The evil developer, who wants to build apartments over the wonderful house and its surrounding gardens, is trying to kick them out, they need a miracle!
Arthur gets particularly interested in the stories of the ?Minimoys?, and with only two days left, he needs their help desperately to find the rubies his grandfather hid so long ago when he received them as a gift in Africa. With the gems they might be able to get the evil landlord to take his developing elsewhere.
In my opinion this is where the story starts to get more interesting when Arthur gets teleported to the invisible world and meets the beautiful princess Selenia (voice of Madonna). Heroically, when the princess can’t, he manages to remove the magical sword (not Excalibur this time!). he finds out that the Minimoys need help and he must go and destroy the evil Maltazard (below) aka evil M (voice of David Bowie).
The graphics in the scenes leading up to this of the natural surroundings that seem so big to the Minimoys are incredibly well animated. After near deaths and some wacky stunts they make it to the land of evil M but not before groovin? with Max (Voice of Snoop Dogg). When they finally meet evil M he looks as you might expect, horribly ugly especially compared with Madonna! David Bowie was the perfect man for the voice as he is able to change his tone and it illustrates him to be good at being evil!
They find out he wasn?t always evil and when they get chucked in prison by guards they get a big surprise, who might be waiting for them? Want to find out the resolution of this huge adventure in a tiny world, you?ll just have to watch the film I?m afraid!
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OK, on to the contest. You don’t have to do anything but enter this one to be in with a chance, if you’re brave enough to admit you don’t have a problem with wanting a bunch of kiddies’ stuff, then you deserve to be in with a chance.
Don’t worry, I’m guilty too. I’m keeping a set, and I even got Luc Besson to sign my poster. Oh how the fans of the admittedly brilliant Leon sneered at me.
The contest ends at midnight UK time on the 9th and winners will be announced shortly thereafter.