Arthur and the Invisibles

Adventure awaits in your own backyard.
Arthur et les Minimoys (2006)
Timing: 1:34 (94 min)
6.5/10
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6.4/10
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6/10
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Release date
Budget
$86 000 000
Revenue
$107 944 236
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Director
Scenario
Luc Besson, Céline Garcia
Producer
Luc Besson, Emmanuel Prévost, Stéphane Lecomte, Jérome de Baecque, Emmanuel Prévost
Operator
Composer
Artist
Hugues Tissandier
Audition
Lucinda Syson, Elaine Grainger, Kate Ringsell
Editing
Yann Hervé, Vincent Tabaillon, Karim Benhammouda
All team (37)

Short description

Ten-year-old Arthur is spending the summer at his grandmother's house when he learns that the property is about to be taken away and that a treasure his missing grandfather once spoke of may be hidden somewhere beneath the garden. Following the clues his grandfather left behind, Arthur enters the world of the Minimoys, a tiny people who live unseen among the plants, and finds himself reduced to their size. There he meets Princess Selenia and her brother and joins them in searching for the treasure while a tyrant threatens the kingdom they come from.

Luc Besson directed the film, the ninth of the twenty he has directed, arriving between Angel-A and Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard, and he wrote the screenplay with Céline Garcia. Freddie Highmore plays Arthur, with Madonna voicing Princess Selenia, alongside Mia Farrow and Adam LeFevre among a credited cast of thirty-four. The production combined live action with animation on a budget of about 86 million dollars and returned roughly 109 million dollars worldwide.

Audience response has been moderate: on IMDb the film holds 6 out of 10 from around 44,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.4 out of 10 from some 3,100 votes. A critics' rating of 4.5 out of 10 from 90 reviews places professional assessments well below those viewer scores.

What's left behind the scenes

  • “Miro,” the name of the mole, means “bad eyesight” in French, which is a reference to the poor eyesight of moles.
  • One of the songs playing during the fight in the underground club was featured in Quentin Tarantino's film "Pulp Fiction" (1994). The Princess performs Uma Thurman's dance from the same episode of "Pulp Fiction".
  • The sacred sword, which no one (not even the princess) can pull from the stone, as only the chosen one is capable of doing so, is a tribute and reference to the legend of King Arthur and the sword in the stone. Arthur (who is also the name of the main character) becomes king only by pulling the sword from the stone.

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