The City Of Lost Children Rotten Tomatoes

The movie is an expensive, high-tech French production, using more special effects than any other French film in history, and it is appropriate that a lot of its look seems inspired by that Parisian visionary, Jules Verne. It takes place not so much in the future (or even in the dated but vivid 'future' as seen by Verne) as in a sort of parallel time zone, where there are recognizable elements of our world, violently rearranged. The co-directors, Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, created a similar visual extravaganza in their first feature, 'Delicatessen,' a 1991 fantasy about cannibalism.

The movie takes place mostly on an offshore rig inhabited by the terrible and tragic Krank (Daniel Emilfork). Krank is terrible because he is a monster, and he is a monster because he cannot dream, which makes him tragic. So he kidnaps children, to steal their dreams and feed off them. One of his victims is Denree (Joseph Lucien), a little boy who is almost more trouble than he is worth. Tenchu: wrath of heaven special moves. Kidnapping him is a mistake because Denree's adopted brother is One (Ron Perlman, from TV's 'Beauty and the Beast'), a strongman and sometime harpooner. One tracks his brother to the rig to save him.

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 83%. Malorie (Bullock) has to muster the strength to get her children to safety all. Job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. Quiz sequel being planned to feature moment 'coughing' cheat Charles Ingram lost three toes in lawnmower accident.

In the way it populates this plot with grotesque and improbable characters, 'City of Lost Children' can be called Felliniesque, I suppose, although Fellini never created a vision this dark or disturbing. Krank's world includes a large number of children, kidnapped for their dreams, along with a brain that lives in a sort of fish tank, several cloned orphans who cannot figure which of them is the original, some very nasty insects, and Siamese twins who control the orphans for nefarious ends.

There are also deep-sea divers, performing fleas and some Cyclops men who have one eye removed and replaced with a computerized hearing device that allows them to visualize the sound waves of others. All of these people live in a universe constructed of much brass, wood, tubing, shadows and obscure but disturbing machines.