What extraordinary junk!


Second viewing 14 years later ---

Lovely to look at. And utter bore to actually watch.

I am constantly amazed how easy it is to dupe audiences into thinking they are seeing fine art when they are seeing a cartoon, and not such a good cartoon. ("Oh, Mon Dieu! The scene where that crazed slob MUST have a certain part ze chicken! Brilliant! Formidable! Etonnant!")

There is NOTHING to Amelie, either the character, whom I was never led to care about, or the film, which has NOTHING to say, beyond some kind of child-like message of...what? Hope? Faith? Dare I say it? Love?

(shudder)

This might be a nice film to show 12 year old girls, there's nothing that will harm them,I don't think, and the level of sophistication it demands is about right.

I would rather remove my own gall bladder with an oyster fork than ever see this tripe again.

Anyone agree?

A bientot!

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Okay. I will bite.
I am one of life's sceptics and some people describe me as the most cynical person they know. So I do appreciate like minded people. I really do.
But I can't agree with you on this one.
I can watch Amelie time after time and I get a warm glow every time I do. Opinions differ and you've got yours. I will never say you are wrong. But I'm close to it. Credit though for your honest appraisal.
I would be interested to know, say, 5 of your favourite films.

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But is it an honest opinion? I loved Amelie when I first saw it, and I still think of it as an absolute fave. Sounds like either a real crank or is just trolling.

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What an idiotic piece of nonsense you have written.

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