Trouble at Timpetill

Original title: Les enfants de Timpelbach

20082008
Not RatedNot Rated
1h 37min

The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.

5.8/10

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Lola Créton in Les enfants de Timpelbach (2008)

Adèle Exarchopoulos in Les enfants de Timpelbach (2008)

Lola Créton and Adèle Exarchopoulos in Les enfants de Timpelbach (2008)

Gérard Depardieu in Les enfants de Timpelbach (2008)

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Titeuf, le film

Welcome to Timpelbach, a small, serene village. Well, not really that serene... Indeed, for several weeks, the children have been playing multiple practical jokes and nasty tricks. The victims are, of course, other children... but also, and most of all, the parents. Overwrought, they decide to leave the village for what they think will only be one day. But nothing happens as planned: on the way back, they are taken prisoner by a group of soldiers. In Timpelbach, the news of a village without parents makes Oscar and his gang of thugs happy! But that isn't the case of a few daredevils who decide to side with Manfred and Marianne to regain control of the village. —Happy_Evil_Dude

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Taglines
- A Noël, ça va être leur fête! (This Christmas, they're getting their comeuppance!)
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- Not Rated
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Trivia
According to cinematographer Axel Cosnefroy, Nicolas Bary wanted the look of the film to be similar to the works of Tim Burton and Guillermo del Toro, as well as settings that could lend themselves to a cartoonish atmosphere.

Crazy credits
After the end credits, a child's voice says: "Bah, c'est déjà fini?" (In English: "It is already finished?")

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3/10

Offensive in every way

How could anybody raise any money for this. Marketed as a Harry Potter/Jeunet ripoff, that piece of garbage goes out of its way to steal from any source of successful and/or creative popular material, only doing it wrong in an unimaginative, exploitative attempt to cash on people's (and especially children's) stupidity.

Nobody is spared, Grinn, J.K.Rowling, Del Toro, Burton, S.King, W.Golding... and a copious amount of French references, with Goscigny and Jeunet being the most obvious.

Modern and politically correct winks are included of course, the single cool and integrated black kid shows up when needed, pop culture references, and so on.

Any attempt at originality is ill-advised, if not completely, utterly sick.

CGI is everywhere it shouldn't be. Many visuals are good, but many times unnecessary CGI elements are shouting "look at me ! I'm a process" on the screen. Like a phony print on a building, things like that.

Needless to say, any decent performance (by the kids) gets drowned with the boat.

The whole mess feels like a cheap, unlicensed, toxic copy of a plastic smurf village set.

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