"Mega is going to help me!" Blue Fox Ent. has released an official Us trailer for an indie French animated film titled SamSam, a sci-fi adventure for the whole family. SamSam appears to have it all: his own flying saucer and great family and friends. But the one thing he has yet to attain are actual superpowers. But he's soon about to figure them out – while learning what it really takes to fight monsters and how many ways there are to be a hero. Developed by animation studio Folivari, this is adapted from the TV series by the same director who created it. Featuring the voices of Isaac Lobé-Lebel, Lior Chabbat, Jérémy Prévost, Sébastien Desjours, Léopold Vom Dorp, Victoire Pauwels, Léovanie Raud, Simon Brunner, and Françoise Pavy. The Us release includes an English dub as well. This looks a bit cheesy but also visually unique, which certainly piques my ...
- 7/1/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Un Monstre à Paris (English title: A Monster in Paris)
Directed by Bibo Bergeron
Screenplay by Bibo Bergeron and Stéphane Kazandjian
France, 2011
*Sound on Sight attended a press screening for the 3D version of the film under review.
The animated film market must be a very difficult one to navigate through for filmmakers. Animation, by its very nature, provides creative minds with a near limitless canvas to exhaust their ideas, but not everything will hit home with audiences. The latter group can be a fickle bunch, and anything that diverts from what is widely recognized and beloved risks being snubbed, never truly finding a decent viewership. This explains in part why some studios, rather than utilizing animation to expand the limits of visual storytelling, so often to ‘play it safe’, for lack of a better term. Such a strategy is logical to help ensure box office success, but creativity may suffer as result.
Directed by Bibo Bergeron
Screenplay by Bibo Bergeron and Stéphane Kazandjian
France, 2011
*Sound on Sight attended a press screening for the 3D version of the film under review.
The animated film market must be a very difficult one to navigate through for filmmakers. Animation, by its very nature, provides creative minds with a near limitless canvas to exhaust their ideas, but not everything will hit home with audiences. The latter group can be a fickle bunch, and anything that diverts from what is widely recognized and beloved risks being snubbed, never truly finding a decent viewership. This explains in part why some studios, rather than utilizing animation to expand the limits of visual storytelling, so often to ‘play it safe’, for lack of a better term. Such a strategy is logical to help ensure box office success, but creativity may suffer as result.
- 2/24/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
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