Harold Lloyd 1; Hugo 0

Rating: 1/10 (20 June 2012)

So old films got pulped and turned into shoe heels. If only it were possible to recycle DVDs like this one likewise, and turn them into something equally elegant and useful. I saw this film at cinema club in a village cafe, where it came on a DVD disc.
The drawing robot was the best actor. The warmth and humanity of the drawing robot's performance put all the others to shame. The drawing robot must have been embarrassed to share the screen with Baron Cohen. Mechanical parts went round and round... and then the film turned away from the actors, to show us the insides of some clocks, instead.
It was a visually very busy film. It seemed to be permanently frightened that the audience would stop watching and start looking at Facebook on their iPads instead.
Did anyone else notice - 1930s Paris, and only one smoker? It should have been a forest of Gauloises.
One good thing - the film inspired me to watch Harold Lloyd's scene in "Safety Last". That was far more entertaining for 11 minutes, than two hours of this.