So, so poor.

Rating: 1/10 (12 April 2012)

The most contrived, pointless waste of 2 hours I've had to endure in ages. The worst film any of the actors have ever taken part in, the accents are just so bad, no attempt to even remotely sound french, Baron-Cohen looks like Arthur Bostrom from 'Allo Allo' but sounds as wooden and boring as he acts in this film, he is just pointless. Butterfield is annoying playing a very weak character that gained no empathy, Kingsley should know better by now, the rest of the cast are not in it enough to even mention what they do!
I couldn't ruin this film by telling you the ending, it is so bloody dull. The Paris setting looks like a very cheap Christmas biscuit tin, the structure of the story is feeble and directionless with no real explanations for key parts or emphasis on key aesthetic elements that left me not caring what happened less than an hour into the film. Two hours is way too long for a 'family' film, this felt like some awful self indulgent Chocolat- esque attempt to do a Jean-Pierre Jeunet type film designed for English speaking, trash watchers.
If you thought the worst thing about Amelie was trying to read sub-titles you will love this because you're an idiot.