Rotten
Strange and kind of meandering.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Arthur and the Invisibles
Adventure awaits in your own backyard.
2006 · 1h 34m · PG
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Luc Besson
Overview
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur's grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
22%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A lazy fairy-tale pastiche reveling in mite-size cherubs, which cribs from gnomic mythology, elvish lore, Harry Potter, Arthurian legend and can't-pay-the-rent melodrama.
Stephen Garrett, Time Out New York
Rotten
Luc Besson's half-baked live-action/animated fantasy looks like it was invented on the hoof: it's erratically plotted, poorly animated, overly derivative and too insufferably cute to interest anyone above undemanding toddler age.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
Luc Besson has made a fair share of artfully bad movies. Arthur and the Invisibles -- half-live-action, half-CG kid's adventure -- is (by a hair) more bad-bad, like The Fifth Element, than good-bad, like The Big Blue.
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
While technically polished and adequately executed Arthur, like most of Besson's movies, is a strangely soulless experience.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
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