Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

I noticed a comment here stating "this is no Kung Fu Panda 2" with the great FX, they then realised after 30 minutes that this movie needs no such action rather than FX. I hope that person will now watch more European Cinema as this is the standard and in animation it was a great effort especially considering the score was written and sung by one very talented person.A movie to enjoy with your children and a movie to watch with a glass of wine with your significant other at age 52 or 7 or 99, the music/melody is sublime and I have ordered the DVD and the CD to play at dinner parties.It is classical French theatre and the music/lyricist is a genius. You will also note that the movie adds a hat tipping to a very French classic which I will not say to spoil the movie. It also teaches us about people that may look different but are the same and can add to any culture.Especially for those parents that worry about what can only be said to be money churning action animation and movies, this will start to introduce them to world culture. I give it a 10 as it is animation and no actors to examine and the composition is fantastic.

I watched A Monster in Paris with my boyfriend. I was pretty baffled to see the low rating it got cause I think it was absolutely brilliant. If you crave for something new, this movie would be refreshing.I love Europe arts, statues and buildings and Paris is indeed beautiful but I don't think you have to love Paris in particular to be loving this movie. The animation is good, the soundtracks are amazing, the artwork is beautiful. Especially during the Monster's song. And it has good messages. Do not be quick to judge. It was truly a remarkable experience.

I have seen quite a few European animated features over the years and most of which, have been just about watchable.So when A Monster In Paris arrived, I was a pretty much in the same boat even before viewing... Regardless, I took our 2 kids along and was pleasantly surprised!Yes a few jokes fall flat, but hey - the attention to detail and musical numbers quickly take that away and leave you with a huge smile on your face. That noted, we watched it again last night and the kids are still singing the songs this morning...A Monster In Paris is a delightful family film, void of the over powering Disney Pixar and even Dreamworks moral crap that is thrust in our faces. This is just genuine fun and beautiful to watch!Enjoy!!

I pretty much fell in love with the storyline of this movie. The whole idea of a small bug showing the world that he was more human then some humans even… it might be cliché but the way they did this was a bit of a Frankenstein meets Phantom of the Opera meets comedy. I was only surprised that I never heard about it before I looked through my friends Netflicks the other day. I guess part of it is because it came out in France first but we have some rather good voice actors from around here and this is one of the reasons I wanted to review this as soon as possible.The story sort of follows four characters in Paris of 1910 and there sort of romance that happens. We have Maud (a troubled young cinema worker) his friend Raoul (a delivery boy), and a rather beautiful singer named Lucille. With those only being three, you could ask me who the fourth is. The strange thing is that it is a small flea that suddenly becomes big because of a strange super fertilizer a scientist created. Because of the mixture of the fertilizer and a 'Atomize-a-Tune' mixture, the flea is able to sing rather beautifully and all he wants to do is sing. Lucille gives him the beautiful name Francoeur meaning 'honest heart' and that is when the story really takes off. With the whole city against Francoeur, the only friends who actually take it upon themselves to save him are these three humans. It's rather heartwarming to see the characters trying to help and the rather comedic personality's of them play off rather well. Not only do we have a creature feared by the city, we have a flea trying to understand the world around him and why everyone seems to hate him.Raoul I think is where most of the comedy comes from since he tries to be more then he is. In a little bit of comparison, he is much like Francoeur in that aspect, just trying to get by and be what he isn't. And their reasons aren't that different either where one is love of music and the other seems to be love of another character.The animation is pretty fluid but the proportions of the characters are a little cartoony. I guess it works pretty well but Maud reminds me a lot of a leprechaun. He is dressed all in green and has slightly bright brownish orange hair with large side burns. Added to how short he is to any of the other characters, I'm slightly surprised they didn't try to give him a Scottish accent. The design of Francoeur is pretty nice because he does look very Frankenstein-ish even in his clothing. He has rather broad shoulders, almost no neck, and thin legs and arms. Added to the 4 arms and bright yellow eyes, it's pretty understandable why everyone thinks of him as a monster. Side characters are commendably stereotypical of this kind of animation. Textures are pretty nice and make me remember clay animations with how nice they look. If you like Tim Burton's stuff, you will definitely like the designs of this movie.The music and voice acting is really good to me even though it was translated from the French version. They did a rather good job making the songs sound rather pretty and fluid even though you don't really understand what the song is about. I think it might have been a little easier to understand if I knew French but still. The voice actors really made the story fun since they had so much emotion to almost everything they said. For both Francoeur and Lucille were voiced by famous singers in the French version; when they brought it over to the English version, they did exactly the same. Vanessa Paradis is amazing in the fact that she did both the French and English version of Lucille and for Francoeur, his singing voice was done by none other then John Lennon and Yoko Ono's only son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon. He has the perfect voice for a singing flea. Other voice actors include Adam Goldberg and Catherine O'Hara to make it a rather fun comedic movie.