Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

2013 [FRENCH]

Action / Adventure / Animation / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

4
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 8021 8K

musical sad story

Plot summary

Jack is born with his heart frozen solid on the coldest day in history. A wise midwife saves him by replacing it with a cuckoo clock. Now Jack must abide by three rules to keep his mechanical heart safe: never touch the clock's hands, master his anger, and never fall in love. He tries his best, but when he meets a girl named Acacia he falls in love, threatening the delicate balance of his artificial heart.

Director

Mathias Malzieu Photo
Mathias Malzieu

Top cast

Jessie Buckley Photo
Jessie Buckley as Luna
Arthur H. Photo
Arthur H. as Arthur
Samantha Barks Photo
Samantha Barks as Miss Acacia
Michelle Fairley Photo
Michelle Fairley as Brigitte Helm
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
853.31 MB
1280*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 1
1.71 GB
1920*1080
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ken558 6 / 10

Superb Visuals, Plot Faltered

The visual animation of this movie is notches above the average Pixar and Disney fare, especially in its attention to details and inventiveness, framed from interesting perspectives with captivating clarity.It started of with enough heart ('cuckoo' no-doubt) and sufficient bizarre to draw you in. Unfortunately, about a quarter of the way through the plot starts to falter with too many unnecessary songs that doesn't add to the story but only detracts from it - songs that are averagely catchy but tend to be repetitive and too pop-oriented to capture the essence of the movie. The reason for all the intrusive songs is as follows from Wikipedia: "Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is based on the concept album by the French rock band Dionysos, and on the illustrated novel La Mécanique du cœur written by the band's lead singer Mathias Malzieu. The music of the film was entirely composed by Dionysos"May have worked as an audio album, but for this movie, Luc Besson (one of two producers) should have instructed that the visuals and the story alone be allowed to do the "singing", backed by good inspiring theme music.The English dubbing (from the original French) is definitely one of the better done ones - I suspect many (but not all) of the original French actors, also did the voice-over in English, including most (but not all) the songs.Overall, would still strongly recommend this animation, if but for the visual feast alone!
Reviewed by abinwv 8 / 10

Fabulous movie

We think this movie is fabulous. Both my kids love it and have watched it several times. They are 7, boy and girl. They enjoy the music and artistry. some of the topics are fairly serious but I find most kids see movies for what they are, Fun entertainment. They aren't looking for deeper meaning or emotional attachments. If they want to discuss the movie content, we do , but they mostly just enjoy the show. I suppose this movie isn't for all kids. My kids also enjoy Book of Life, which is also on the odd side. As for the "jack the ripper" part ,my kids have no idea who that is. It was just a scary looking character. They didn't pay that much attention to it.
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