This incredible film inspired by Jules Verne's incredible novels and using a number of them for piling incredible effects on top of each ortther to achieve the incredible result of a combination of George Méliès thoroughly modernized but in style, the authentic Jules Verne illustrations turned alive by animation, the Nautilus adventure and many other adventures as well - even the engineer Robur with his flying ship "Albatross" is included in this humorous but still serious dramatization of one of Jules Verne's best and most sinister novels - "Face au drapeau", which he himself considered one of his most significant. But what really sets this film off in all its crude and primitive but extremely original and clever techniques is the music and the splendid sense of humor. This is all ingeniously humorous all the way, while at the same time, like Chaplin's "The Great Dictator", it is dead serious. The creative imagination behind all this matches that of Jules Verne, and this is perhaps the one film out of many on Jules Verne's books that comes closest to the original character of his books. This is indeed an adventure you will never forget but enjoy refreshing every now and then.
Review of Invention for Destruction
