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A Town Called Panic
(2009)Panique au village
directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, 77 minutes
"...equal parts cute and frenetic." - Noel Murray, the A.V. Club
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A TOWN CALLED PANIC has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult television series (which was released by Aardman Studios), PANIC stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to gift Horse with a homemade barbeque backfires when they accidentally buy fifty million bricks. Whoops! This sets off a perilously wacky chain of events as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe of pointy-headed (and dishonest) creatures. Each speedy character is voiced and animated as if they are filled with laughing gas. With panic a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine paramour, flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray (Jeanne Balibar) ever find a quiet moment alone? A sort of Gallic Monty Python crossed with Art Clokey on acid, A TOWN CALLED PANIC is zany, brainy and altogether insane-y!
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Cast & Crew
- Stéphane Aubier - Coboy
- Jeanne Balibar - Madame Longrée
- Francois De Brigode - Sportscaster
- Nicolas Buysse - Jean-Paul
- Nicolas Buysse - Mouton
- Véronique Dumont - Janine
- Bruce Ellison - Indien
- Christine Grulois - Vache
- Frédéric Jannin - Livreur de briques
- Frédéric Jannin - Gérard
- Frédéric Jannin - Gendarme
- Bouli Lanners - Simon
- Brian Lykke - Hest
- Christelle Mahy - Poule
- Eric Muller - Étudiant chorle 1
- Eric Muller - Rocky Gaufres
- Vincent Patar - Cheval
- Franco Piscopo - Ours
- Benoît Poelvoorde - Steven
- Alexandre von Sivers - Scientifique 1
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You know how kids play with little plastic action figures that balance their feet on their own little platforms? And how they're not on the same scale? And how kids move them around while doing their voices and making up adventures for them? And how literally anything is likely to happen in those adventures? Then you have a notion of the goofy charm generated by "A Town Called Panic," an animated comedy from Belgium.
The most frequent line of dialogue in its enchanting world is "Oh, no!" One strange thing happens after another. You wouldn't believe me if I told you how Horse, Indian and Cowboy all end up perched precariously on a rock slab above a volcano at the Earth's center, or how they get from there to the middle of an ocean and the North Pole, or how they happen upon a mad scientist and his robot, named Penguin, or the excuses Horse uses on his cell phone to explain to Madame Longree why he hasn't turned up for his piano lessons. Or why it rains cows.
Exquisitely imaginative and funny. "Panic" reminds me of some of the more outrageous children's books I've come across. Totally non-formulaic, this film is a truly delightful original for all but the youngest children.
Very imaginative, and it even has a good moral at the end! I usually dislike films where things just keep going wrong for the main characters, but the plot is so charmingly bizarre, I found myself chuckling out loud and wondering, "what's next??".
Stange and interesting journety with a timid Cowboy, an exhuberant indian and a handsome horse.
Um...I had the patience of 5 minutes for this kind of frenetic nonsense. Wow.
I saw this on DVD not long ago. Glad it's now on Fandor so others can enjoy. It's funny from the start and it keeps turning up the craziness throughout. Just the thing for when you need some laughs at the end of the week.