paulclaassen Fabulous! What a gem of a film! Action, adventure, suspense, fun, music and entertainment wrapped in a timeless masterpiece. Thoroughly entertaining!(Only had two issues: what was the purpose of the Monster being able to sing if he only plays the guitar? Why can't he talk if he can sing?)

palavitsinis Amazing scenery, well-made characters and lots of delicate humour that won't make you fall out of your chair, but will work overall. Such a cute movie with an unexpected protagonist, that you cannot even dislike a little bit! Nice idea, really special, with Paris as the perfect setting, as well as the era in which it evolves which is one of my favorites in such movies! This is a movie that you won't regret watching, it's a cartoon really fit for small children as well, despite all these horrible concepts that come out once in a while that can give nightmares even to grown ups. This is one of my favorite cartoons of 2015 - cause I actually discovered it a bit late!

pyrotechnic67-889-392816 Lucille is the girl of my dreams, or, I mean, well, a REAL girl LIKE Lucille is the girl of my dreams. Predictable story, but pleasant enough. The guitar playing, dancing flea. . . you have to be a child not to wince at that. I did not like the music. The credits listed the composers of "original score". Even what I think was meant to be the main song was not very pleasant. Bibo should have run them off and got another composer. The Paris setting is pleasant. I've been there and it brought back some memories. I think they could have left in a little bit of French dialogue - you know, the kinds of phrases that English speakers would no doubt still recognize - merci, au revoir, mademoiselle, etc. Overall a good time - I checked it out from the library, I'll get my own copy.

Angels_Review I pretty much fell in love with the storyline of this movie. The whole idea of a small bug showing the world that he was more human then some humans even… it might be cliché but the way they did this was a bit of a Frankenstein meets Phantom of the Opera meets comedy. I was only surprised that I never heard about it before I looked through my friends Netflicks the other day. I guess part of it is because it came out in France first but we have some rather good voice actors from around here and this is one of the reasons I wanted to review this as soon as possible.The story sort of follows four characters in Paris of 1910 and there sort of romance that happens. We have Maud (a troubled young cinema worker) his friend Raoul (a delivery boy), and a rather beautiful singer named Lucille. With those only being three, you could ask me who the fourth is. The strange thing is that it is a small flea that suddenly becomes big because of a strange super fertilizer a scientist created. Because of the mixture of the fertilizer and a 'Atomize-a-Tune' mixture, the flea is able to sing rather beautifully and all he wants to do is sing. Lucille gives him the beautiful name Francoeur meaning 'honest heart' and that is when the story really takes off. With the whole city against Francoeur, the only friends who actually take it upon themselves to save him are these three humans. It's rather heartwarming to see the characters trying to help and the rather comedic personality's of them play off rather well. Not only do we have a creature feared by the city, we have a flea trying to understand the world around him and why everyone seems to hate him.Raoul I think is where most of the comedy comes from since he tries to be more then he is. In a little bit of comparison, he is much like Francoeur in that aspect, just trying to get by and be what he isn't. And their reasons aren't that different either where one is love of music and the other seems to be love of another character.The animation is pretty fluid but the proportions of the characters are a little cartoony. I guess it works pretty well but Maud reminds me a lot of a leprechaun. He is dressed all in green and has slightly bright brownish orange hair with large side burns. Added to how short he is to any of the other characters, I'm slightly surprised they didn't try to give him a Scottish accent. The design of Francoeur is pretty nice because he does look very Frankenstein-ish even in his clothing. He has rather broad shoulders, almost no neck, and thin legs and arms. Added to the 4 arms and bright yellow eyes, it's pretty understandable why everyone thinks of him as a monster. Side characters are commendably stereotypical of this kind of animation. Textures are pretty nice and make me remember clay animations with how nice they look. If you like Tim Burton's stuff, you will definitely like the designs of this movie.The music and voice acting is really good to me even though it was translated from the French version. They did a rather good job making the songs sound rather pretty and fluid even though you don't really understand what the song is about. I think it might have been a little easier to understand if I knew French but still. The voice actors really made the story fun since they had so much emotion to almost everything they said. For both Francoeur and Lucille were voiced by famous singers in the French version; when they brought it over to the English version, they did exactly the same. Vanessa Paradis is amazing in the fact that she did both the French and English version of Lucille and for Francoeur, his singing voice was done by none other then John Lennon and Yoko Ono's only son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon. He has the perfect voice for a singing flea. Other voice actors include Adam Goldberg and Catherine O'Hara to make it a rather fun comedic movie.