It's very pretty, has some great songs, a dastardly villain and a giant flea which sings like and angel.
So why was hardly anyone in screen 6 of Nottingham Cineworld on a Sunday morning?
Could it be that A Monster In Paris is lacking the key ingredient of successful animations - a thwacking great advertising budget?
Of course, one of the issues is that it is a French film which has just been transposed into English.
Nevertheless, the version we are seeing in UK cinemas still has Vanessa Paradis in the starring role and has the superb Danny Huston voicing the egotistical police inspector.
In fact, there in nothing wrong with it at all. Indeed, I thought Bibo Bergeron's film was perfectly charming. yet, compared to the much less ambitious Happy Feet 2 it is bound to flop at the box office.
Anyway, let's get down to the nitty gritty of what it is all about.
The year is 1910 and Paris is facing the worst flood in its history, cinema is in its early days and the motor car is pretty new too.
Emile (Jay Harrington) is a cinema projectionist whose best mate Raoul (Adam Goldberg) is something of an entrepreneur with an eye for a local singer (Paradis).
Anyway, the two friends have a delivery to make at the home of an inventor and, by accident, mix a couple of his chemicals, resulting in the creating of a 7ft monster flea.
It turns out, though, that this is a friendly flea who sings and dances (he's voiced by John and Yoko's son, Sean!).
However, the local police inspector tries to up his profile by leading a chase for what he is calling The Monster Of Paris.
It's all great knockabout stuff and there are chase scenes, songs and slapstick which would bless any Disney production.
I marvelled at the views of Paris which are just specatcular in their detail.
The question is, however, will the kids turn out to watch it. And the evidence from my Sunday morning outing (peak time for the little ones) is that they won't.
Laughs: a few chortles.
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Rating: 6.5/10
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