The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

1975 [NORWEGIAN]

Animation / Comedy / Family / Sport

9
IMDb Rating 8.5/10 10 15310 15.3K

car race bicycle races sheik racing stop motion

Director

Ivo Caprino Photo
Ivo Caprino

Top cast

Harald Heide-Steen Jr. Photo
Harald Heide-Steen Jr. as Emanuel Desperados
Helge Reiss Photo
Helge Reiss as Rudolf Blodstrupmoen
Leif Juster Photo
Leif Juster as Narrator
Rolf Just Nilsen Photo
Rolf Just Nilsen as Ben Redic Fy Fazan / Roger Jurtappen / Ollvar O. Kleppvold / Hallstein Bronskimlet / Jostein Kroksleiven
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810.06 MB
1280*720
Norwegian 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 2
1.62 GB
1920*1080
Norwegian 5.1
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MrVibrating 9 / 10

A totally non-nostalgic review

So, I am not Norwegian, I was not a kid in the 1970s, and I had never watched this movie before adult age. As such, I have none of the nostalgia filters that one might suspect are being applied to land a rather ancient puppet stop motion movie to a 8 point something rating. But I think the rating is totally correct!There are some things one could criticize, if one felt so inclined. There are some small pacing issues for some scenes. Not all the character designs land 100%. And the oil sheik character probably would have had less lines like "caramba" and "tempo" if the movie was made today. But these are minor things, and all of them more than outweighed by the sheer labour of love that this movie is. The intricate environments, the milage (haha) that the director squeezes out of what in reality is quite simple puppets(this is movie magic), the little humorous touches (one of the Flåklypa locals who help refuel at a pit stop takes a little sip himself before plugging the nozzle into the car, since 30 minutes earlier it was mentioned it runs on 100% pure alcohol).And of course - the race itself, which is one of the most exhilarating things ever animated by stop motion - I dare say nothing came close to it before the train chase in Wallace and Gromit. Again, it's not technically stupendous like, say, Coraline (where they do things like constructing 100 different puppets to create the illusion of a transformation), but the director knows how to use sound, camera angles and pacing to build a top-notch sequence.All in all, a timeless classic that is well worth watching even today!
Reviewed by taskoghe 9 / 10

Remember when this was made.

When I look at the comments, remember that this is a puppet movie from 1975! In a way it's a parody on rural Norway the way it was over 30 years ago! Today Norway, like the rest of the world, is so very different. Multicultural and far less innocent. I think that explains why so many people from my generation loves this movie. It's a testament from a less complicated past, besides the fact, of course, that it holds precious childhood memories.If this had been a more widely known movie internationally, I can already imagine that Muslims would have had several issues with it. After all, we now live in a paranoid and censor happy world.
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