MovieChat Forums > Arthur et les Minimoys (2007) Discussion > wasn't ANYONE confused by the following ...

wasn't ANYONE confused by the following things that didn't make sense?

posted 17 years ago by masha_xo
64 replies | jump to latest

- the princess tells arthur that they're about the same age when he's a pre-pubescent boy and she's a scantily clad, robust young adult with a 47 year-old woman voice

- the random african tribesmen...did i miss something? Why were they scurrying about the yard...what did they have to do with anything...there was somethig about africa though..

- arthur has a british accent when no one in his family does and he lives in conetticut..would he really pick it up from boarding school?

-when he is "minimoysed", why does he randomly have gray hair...should he not slightly resemble his human self...at least james did while in the giant peach

- mia farrow's character who hadnt seen her husband in ages (and didn't file a missing persons report) barely smiles and gives him a half-assed hug when he finaly appears

-everyone in their world was, like, an elf/treasure troll type creature except for that one guy's son who was randomly a gerbil...

- and MOST importantly...that very un-subtle, very suggestive scene where all the kiddies are sitting with snoop-dog at an underground rave consuming whatever that was resembling a booze-and-pot-in-one type of substance...

other than the fact that this film made no sense at all, i did enjoy it because of the part where the gerbil goes "paPA!"..and david bowie..and mia farrow

[–] crs_unlimited 17 years ago

- the princess tells arthur that they're about the same age when he's a pre-pubescent boy and she's a scantily clad, robust young adult with a 47 year-old woman voice

The princess also says that they judge age by the blooming of a certain flower. Is it possible that this flower blooms 10 times in one year? That would make sense. Other then that I would say she is judging age by height. Her brother is way shorter then her and only about 1/3 of her age.

Do you think Madonna enjoyed being called 1000 years old? lol

- the random african tribesmen...did i miss something? Why were they scurrying about the yard...what did they have to do with anything...there was somethig about africa though..

I believe the African tribesmen came from the five statues that Arthur gathered. Well that made sense to me anyway.

- arthur has a british accent when no one in his family does and he lives in conetticut..would he really pick it up from boarding school?

Don't know about this one.

-when he is "minimoysed", why does he randomly have gray hair...should he not slightly resemble his human self...at least james did while in the giant peach.

Not sure why he had white hair, but was it just me or did he have five fingers while all the other minimoys had four?

- mia farrow's character who hadnt seen her husband in ages (and didn't file a missing persons report) barely smiles and gives him a half-assed hug when he finaly appears

No real reason as to why this happened. I think it should have meant more to her to see her husband than just a half-assed hug as well.

-everyone in their world was, like, an elf/treasure troll type creature except for that one guy's son who was randomly a gerbil...

If you notice "That one guy" is a mole type creature to begin with. Therefore his son would also be of that same type of creature.

- and MOST importantly...that very un-subtle, very suggestive scene where all the kiddies are sitting with snoop-dog at an underground rave consuming whatever that was resembling a booze-and-pot-in-one type of substance...

I wasn't as concerned about that scene as they said it was soda they where drinking. However I was a little concerned about the scene where they escape the floating walnut shell. The princess gave Arthur a string to tie around the sword that was from the side of her top. I didn't catch that until I saw the princess holding her arm over her chest while climbing up the rope. I almost thought she hurt her arm or something until I realized she was just holding in her boobies because this was a kid movie. Now that I think about it though why would they have been concerned about where the characters got the string from, but leave in music that was recorded after 1960 in the dance scene.

[–] dalighla 17 years ago

- the princess tells arthur that they're about the same age when he's a pre-pubescent boy and she's a scantily clad, robust young adult with a 47 year-old woman voice

I was bored at work one night and did the math. If there are 1,000 minimoy days in 10 human months it would actually make her approximately 10 human years old for her 1,000 minimoy years.

- the random african tribesmen...did i miss something? Why were they scurrying about the yard...what did they have to do with anything...there was somethig about africa though..

Yeah, I had no idea what was going on here. All I could think is that Archibald somehow got a letter out to them...or maybe Granny did to see if they knew where he his the rubies. I don't know.

- arthur has a british accent when no one in his family does and he lives in conetticut..would he really pick it up from boarding school?

Actually, this is not an unknown phenomenon. If he has been going to boarding school for most of his life spending about 9 months out of the year there he quite possibly could gain the accent.

-when he is "minimoysed", why does he randomly have gray hair...should he not slightly resemble his human self...at least james did while in the giant peach

He does slightly resemble himself. Maybe not very much - but a little bit. He really has to resemble a Minimoy more than anything.

- mia farrow's character who hadnt seen her husband in ages (and didn't file a missing persons report) barely smiles and gives him a half-assed hug when he finaly appears

Shock? Stress and then shock?

-everyone in their world was, like, an elf/treasure troll type creature except for that one guy's son who was randomly a gerbil...

Actually, Miro (father) and Mino (son) look more like moles. I think that was hinted to when Mino says he can't see. Perhaps another mixed union?

- and MOST importantly...that very un-subtle, very suggestive scene where all the kiddies are sitting with snoop-dog at an underground rave consuming whatever that was resembling a booze-and-pot-in-one type of substance...

I just thought it was a strong drink. I know it was honey and something - I didn't think it was alcohol though. More like the effects of cayanne pepper - they don't show being intoxicated. I'm sure if they wanted them to be drinking they would make them intoxicated.

I think the movie was just adorable and does a nice job of making you feel very positive.

[–] 17 years ago

[deleted]

[–] dex_90 17 years ago

Yeah I agree with most of this although I saw a lot of other flaws also, for example his grandma that went out to look for him or his parents that went around everywhere didn't see 5 african tribesmen standing around in their garden right behind a tree? Now I haven't ever been to Conneticut but I kinda think that would have attracted some attention.

Also the whole movie after he went down into the Minimoy-world seemed extremely speeded up... not only the talking but also the storyline and the scenechanges that sometimes just took a few seconds, they could have taken SOME time for character and story-development and that stuff. It seemed like they tried to compress a 2-3hour long story into 1h of movie and skip nothing. I don't know... it just seemed weird and I could only give it a 4/10.
Edit: I just saw the differences between the French and English version though and might have to rethink after watching the original version at some point ^^ Seems lame how they truncated everything to make it all "children-compatible".
Now I'm nearly sorry that I watched the english one :/

[–] rockwren 17 years ago

i agree with some of this stuff... but i am not sure how everyone on the board missed the fact that his mother had an american accent, and his dad had a british accent. That, combined with the boarding school, and the fact that they may have lived in his dad's country a while, would fully explain the accent.

[–] dex_90 16 years ago

Original version is a 6-7/10

[–] echelon-3 17 years ago

If you don't have an imagination then you shouldn't be watching kids fantasy movies. Sure it was a little creepy that madona was falling in love with a 12 year old kid. But even if thats a little weird if you think "this kid just got transported into a land of microscopic elf things" you would think that any other things that happen would be believable in the world.

I think the worlds maturing enough to be able to handle green bug juice being handed out at a party given by Snoop Dogg. And I think we can all forgive the Brittish accent.

It's just simply not hard to believe when put into the context that the fact that the whole story is pretty unbelievable in general, so why complain about specific parts of a clearly fictional story.

It's like talking about harry potter and saying "Why does his wand shoot out white light? Can't he just use a flashlight?"

I think the conversion from human to minimoy transalates your character (not your physical being) into a minimoy existance. So him being the heroic crazy type, it transalated him into something suiting for his personallity, I think.

[–] mouse_n_vines 17 years ago

"-everyone in their world was, like, an elf/treasure troll type creature except for that one guy's son who was randomly a gerbil... "

to me, especially since mino was nearly blind, he was a mole. and if you noticed, his papa seemed to be a bald version of him. long snout, little eyes.

[–] nanahuatzin 17 years ago

--the princess tells arthur that they're about the same age when he's a pre-pubescent boy and she's a scantily clad, robust young adult with a 47 year-old woman voice

This is a french film, the original voice on which the character was based on Mylène Farmer, while Arthur was voiced by Barbara Kelsch. While Mylene was born in 1963, in french both arthur and the princess sound about the same age. In other other language, the Princess voice is younger.

Also when Arthur ask her is she has once been a little girl, she says she always has looked like that... After all they are "minimoys".. not humans :)

[–] 17 years ago

[deleted]

[–] whistlestop 17 years ago

<- arthur has a british accent when no one in his family does and he lives in conetticut..would he really pick it up from boarding school?>

Sounded to me like his father had an English accent.