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A Monster In Paris

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Bibo Bergeron's charmingly animated but fiendishly plotted feature is up for an Oscar and just about deserves the compliment for originality, if not for its storyline.

An eccentric inventor and his friends, let loose in a professor's science lab, accidentally create Francoeur, a musically talented monster. With the help of pretty singer Lucille (below, voiced by Vanessa Paradis) they have to protect Francoeur from a wannabe mayor who is determined to capture him and claim he's saved Paris from the equivalent of King Kong.

The film isn't helped by the dubbed and largely American voices, led by Danny Huston and Jay Harrington, nor by the musical interludes that are no more than mildly catchy. But Bergeron, who made Shark Tale, has a vivid visual imagination which stands this family film in good stead.

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