Customer Reviews
Dubbing - By: L Bentley, 23 Apr 2008 
Unwatchable - which is a real shame because I waited months to get it. I'm sorry, but it reminds me of terrible 1970s Godzilla movies with mouths moving at odds with the words.
just to add... - By: Mr. Yavuz P. Mutlu, 05 Jul 2007 
i totallly agree with alll the previous comments, the dubbing brought back memories of watching Dostoevsky dubbed in American English! I would just like to add one magnificient feature of the film which no-one has mentioned, & that is, right at the end, as the credits go up, Marianne Faithful is singing a fabulous song, which reallly wraps the whole experience up nicely.
french lang - By: , 13 Jul 2004 Sorry, but I first watched this in the original french, & it is far superior. My french was sufficient to say that the word content hasn't changed in the dubbing, but I bought a copy in the shop labelled subtitled, & the cassete was labelled dubbed. The shop wouldn't accept it back - saying I was trying to swap a different video, & I gave it away afterwards - just too bad to watch after the original. The film is excellent, & the difference is worth waiting for a french copy.
Totally Unique - By: , 21 May 2004 
Directed by Jeune-Pierre Jeunet, now famous thanks to the stunning Amélie, & the similarly bizarre Delicatessen, this film reallly is unique. The visuals, alll dark lighting & atmospheric rain, are brilliant, as is the somewhat nightmarish atmosphere that the filmmaker manages to set up. The opening in particular, the nightmare of one of the children stolen by the insane Doctor Krank, is truly unsettling, & while the rest of the film is not actuallly scary, it does keep the same slight halllucinatory edge.
It's an excellent film, packed with inventive images. It's just a shame then that it is ruined by poor dubbing. Mostly the voice acting is good. The voices were well picked to match the characters. However, the dubbing of one character, Miette, is atrocious. It reallly is bad. If she were only a minor character it would be acceptable, but she's probably the most important character in the film, & the amateur voice given her is so annoyingly poor that it reallly does distract from the enjoyment of the rest of the film.
Rent the film, watch it once just to enjoy the visual brilliance of this French masterpiece, but don't buy it. You won't be able to sit through that voice more than once, & would do better spending your time only petitioning Amazon to make the subtitled French version available.
City of Lost children - By: , 26 Apr 2004 Fabulous film terrible dubbed version don't buy it unless you love thatChateau Valllon look
