I couldn't believe how bad this was.

Rating: 3/10 (14 January 2012)

Those who have written one and two star reviews are correct. This film was such a shocking disappointment. Billed as an adventure/mystery, it delivered none of those. There were long periods of excruciating tedium, including all of Sacha Baron Cohen's awful - truly awful - scenes.
It started out promising with a potential mystery involving the child's father and an automaton with a message but, bafflingly, went nowhere - for a very long time! My children and I spent an amusing hour afterwards picking hole after hole in this contrived plot - I won't go into them. The 3D, as always, only added to the displeasure. There have not been many films that I've considered walking out on but this was one. I'm sorry to say that it is one of the worst films I've ever seen.
The recreation of Melies' early work was the only saving grace.
By the way, do French trains not slow down when pulling into a station?