The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)

I love this movie so much

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Apparently French parents don't mind if their kids see a lady's breasts, because while this movie shows off some nipples, its broad humor and generally goofiness make it very much a kid's movie.This is not a kid's movie because it features kids - there are none - but because all the adults act like kids, and the logic will strain the credulity of anyone over ten. Still, it's a fun adventure movie that mixes in Indiana Jones/Mummy type elements. The heroine is appealing in in a starchy way, the special effects are decent, and the characters that show up in the last part are rather amusing.If you like adventure movies, and have run through the greats, and don't mind some silliness (or, even better, prefer that) then this is a good movie to watch, even if it is utterly forgettable.

If you like movies that take place in the early 1900s, then you'll love Luc Besson's "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec." In this movie, there is a huge bird egg in a museum that hasn't hatched. They keep it there for visitors to see. It was never supposed to hatch and one day, it hatches and something that looks like a huge pterodactyl comes out. It screeches and people try to capture it but it is just too fast for them. At one point, a group of people are all lined up to see something in a tomb and they release something, I can't tell you what it is because that will ruin the movie for you. Later, the cops want to hang Adele for things that she has been saying and she is only concerned about finding something to heal her sister. Adele finds a mummy that people think no one can ever find. Then, she talks to it and no one believes her. When the people of the town see the mummy they are really scared. In one part of the movie Adele is in a cave, sees a fire behind her and gets inside a sarcophagus to save herself.My favorite part in this movie is when the mummy dresses up in a suit and asks someone for directions. The guy says "of course" and faints. I really like the music in this film. It's great.This movie's moral message is that no matter what, you should always do whatever is best to help your family and friends.I recommend this movie to ages 11 to 18 and I suggest you go with your parents because it is really intense. You should really watch this movie if you like adventures.Reviewed by Valdi B. KIDS FIRST! Film Critic. For more film reviews, go to kidsfirst.org.

In 1911, in Paris, the bold journalist Adèle Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) is assigned by her editor to travel to Peru to write about the Incas, but she goes to Egypt instead to seek out the mummy of a doctor of Ramses II to bring him to Paris. Adèle has an agreement with Professor Marie-Joseph Espérandieu (Jacky Nercessian) that has the ability of bringing the dead back to life to resurrect the doctor to heel her twin sister Agathe Blanc-Sec (Laure de Clermont), who has been catatonic and paraplegic for five years due to an accident caused by Adèle. However, Professor Espérandieu is arrested in prison and sentenced to death after bringing to life a pterodactyl from an ancient egg in Louvre that caused the death of three persons. Now the last hope of Agathe is that Adèle saves Professor Espérandieu from the guillotine."Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec" is a highly entertaining and funny adventure by Luc Besson. Last week, I was zapping the television and I saw the last part of the adventure of Adèle Blanc- Sec. Today I have just watched this movie on DVD with my family and we really enjoyed the story. The weird and bizarre characters slightly recall the surrealism of Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet in "Delicatessen and "La Cité des Enfants Perdus". My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "As Múmias do Faraó"("The Mummies of the Pharaoh")

I love the Adèle Blanc-Sec comic books so I looked forward to watching this. The film is quite faithful to the plot of the comics and the characters in the movie are extraordinarily alike their drawn equivalents. But the similarity stops there. The mysterious atmosphere of the comic books are sadly replaced by very broad humor thus making the a children's movie out of the adult comics.I was also disappointed by the actress in the lead role as she was far too young healthy and beautiful to play the strange Adèle of the comic series. The CGI effects didn't help and it was too brightly filmed. It was tiresome with all the swooping camera views. The slow bullet through the air has been done a million times before. The director did not seem to trust the source. This could have been a cool, strange and bloody version of the comic books but instead it was too childish for grown-ups. I am not surprised there is no sequel to this film.