Zombillénium

Government inspector Hector has brought his daughter Lucie to check on monster theme park Zombillenium before its opening. He finds a lower level and uncovers a vast underground for illegal monster workers. The vampire owner kills him and turns him into a zombie. Hector has to escape with help from other underground monsters in order to see his orphaned daughter again.

The animation is a little old with obsolete CGI. The premise of the monster theme park is interesting. The story is a little clunky especially the girl. The division among the monsters is an interesting idea but it needs more clarity. This has a cool outline for a fun animated movie. The execution is a bit muddled.

Zombillenium is a struggling theme park where the staff are actual monsters, vampires, werewolves and zombies. Destined to entertain customers forever.

Hector, a human being arrives to check out the park and ends up dead. He leaves behind his daughter Lucie orphaned and she is in the hands of a cruel teacher.

No one is sure what kind of monster he has become. He is distraught that he found little time for Lucie when he was alive and now he is dead.

Gretchen a young goth witch on an internship is charged to look after Hector. However Hector soon upsets the elitist vampires who treats others, especially the zombies abysmally.

The film has a socialist undercurrent about worker's rights. It also makes for an easygoing children's cartoon.

It starts off well but never manages to soar. Despite its original premise, this French cartoon borrows from other horror films and cultural icons. There is a Michael Jackson impersonator and when Hector transforms at the end, he looks like Hellboy.

My 9 year old son and I watched this not expecting much but we laughed and cried which to me is a pretty good sign of a great film.

I wanted to see this movie because I love the graphic novels of Arthur de Pins. I must say I wasn't disappointed by the graphical style, very distinctive and peculiar.

But the story is abysmal, it is just your average cliché-ridden kid picture. There is some tongue-in-cheek humor, but nothing special. And the character development is cringeworthy. Gretchen could be quite interesting but seems barely there, the teacher is unbearable...

The dialogs are not so bad, but not brillant either. Gags are OK.

I guess kids may like this movie, as the generic main story will not bother them, but the nice visuals and the OK dialogs and gags will make it an enjoyable moment.

This a very unusual movie that can be great fun for entire family. The story, characters and setup are all very provocative, yet fun and positive in the end. We watched it with our 7 yro and it was great.

If you are a metalhead, I am pretty sure you will like this one. :-)