Lucky Luke (2009)
Country: FR/ARG
Technical: col/2.35:1 103m
Director: James Huth
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Michaël Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prévost
Synopsis:
Orphaned as a child by vicious gunslingers, and vowing never to use his Colt to kill, Luke and his talking horse, Jolly, are nevertheless charged with the task of ridding Daisy Town of outlaws, in anticipation of the President's pre-election plan of celebrating the linking up there of the transcontinental railroad.
Review:
Employing every self-conscious (Spaghetti) Western trope in the book, and a good many others from its comic book source, and splashing a �27,000,000 budget across the screen in ravishing primary colours, this frustrating adaptation forgets the oft-learnt lesson that you can construct a flashy pre-credit with storyboard virtuosity, but that a fully-fledged screenplay needs character, compelling dialogue, and a sense of jeopardy, all things this smug, self-regarding, indestructible hero lacks in spades. As one French pundit put it: 'le film qui endort plus vite que son ombre'.
Country: FR/ARG
Technical: col/2.35:1 103m
Director: James Huth
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Michaël Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prévost
Synopsis:
Orphaned as a child by vicious gunslingers, and vowing never to use his Colt to kill, Luke and his talking horse, Jolly, are nevertheless charged with the task of ridding Daisy Town of outlaws, in anticipation of the President's pre-election plan of celebrating the linking up there of the transcontinental railroad.
Review:
Employing every self-conscious (Spaghetti) Western trope in the book, and a good many others from its comic book source, and splashing a �27,000,000 budget across the screen in ravishing primary colours, this frustrating adaptation forgets the oft-learnt lesson that you can construct a flashy pre-credit with storyboard virtuosity, but that a fully-fledged screenplay needs character, compelling dialogue, and a sense of jeopardy, all things this smug, self-regarding, indestructible hero lacks in spades. As one French pundit put it: 'le film qui endort plus vite que son ombre'.
Country: FR/ARG
Technical: col/2.35:1 103m
Director: James Huth
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Michaël Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prévost
Synopsis:
Orphaned as a child by vicious gunslingers, and vowing never to use his Colt to kill, Luke and his talking horse, Jolly, are nevertheless charged with the task of ridding Daisy Town of outlaws, in anticipation of the President's pre-election plan of celebrating the linking up there of the transcontinental railroad.
Review:
Employing every self-conscious (Spaghetti) Western trope in the book, and a good many others from its comic book source, and splashing a �27,000,000 budget across the screen in ravishing primary colours, this frustrating adaptation forgets the oft-learnt lesson that you can construct a flashy pre-credit with storyboard virtuosity, but that a fully-fledged screenplay needs character, compelling dialogue, and a sense of jeopardy, all things this smug, self-regarding, indestructible hero lacks in spades. As one French pundit put it: 'le film qui endort plus vite que son ombre'.