Abbigail Bush
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Deanna
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
vampdavid
Just a short note as I like this series and the other reviews as well. it's great for all ages and as one already said it is 40 episodes (not 7 as it says on main page). I also saw it called Time Jam which I have not seen here but is the same series.The animation is fun and reminds me of Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid....though far from it now.
celluloidkiwi
Somehow this title flew under the radar here in the US. Here's the basic idea. Valerian and Laureline meet in medieval France (AD 912). He is from the future, she is ahead of her times. Forty episodes of sheer entertainment.Valerian is on his maiden(haha)voyage from a distant future(AD 2412)to prove he is capable of handling a space ship that can travel through time and space without damaging future reality. Easy, right? After much training he finds himself to be a Spatio-Temporal intern dumped into the past with an older space ship managed by a sassy, interactive computer. Upon his arrival in medieval Normandy France, he finds himself caught up in local politics. Quickly, our hero falls in love with Laureline while carrying out his duties. But since they are both unwilling to accept true love, and love at first sight, they must go through hell to get to heaven.Okay. From there, Valerian finds himself jailed with, then escaping with Laureline. Laureline knows that Valerian is somehow better than a marriage forced upon her and sticks to him like medieval super-glue. Poor, poor Valerian. He is ready to be a hero from birth and forever unprepared for Laureline. Serving her own immediate needs, Laureline is attracted to our hero and follows him forever. Bam! End of story...or is it?Narrowly escaping ancient France, our duo return to the future only to find that Earth has vanished! Somehow the Earth disappeared due to Valerian and Laureline's escape and it's effect on the future. The space-ship's temporal jumping ability was also damaged and repairs will be costly.This is a great forty episode series. Pure entertainment from set one. While there are filler episodes and strange CGI, mostly Valerian and Laureline carry us through mercenary actions to always fill their purse in an ongoing attempt to find Earth. They spend more than they ever earn, or get ripped off by their dubious employers.I enjoyed this series a lot. Despite the odd CGI (dedicated to the bad guys)and the soundtrack eclipsing voice at times(the English dub?), the characters are fully developed through and through. The story follows a solid arc beyond filler episodes and delivers a satisfying end. For SciFi fans this is a must watch. I viewed the original series with the wonderful, British talent employed by VSI, so I can not comment on the French original voices. The 2D animation is well done by Satellite, Japan in a generally anime form. Music is true to situation and general theme. It would be great to have this voiced by Japanese artists. Hoping.Check out this title and it's source, comic, material. Oh, by the way, totally kid friendly. Easy eight out of ten. Two points off for the CGI incongruity and the music over voice at times. Still, well done VSI, well done.
a-moreira-mailbox
Valerian and Laureline is a cartoon TV show set in the future where Valerian, a space-time agent, traveled back in time and changed the history by accident picking up a woman called Laureline on the way, this led to the disappearance of planet Earth in Valerian's "present". Now the two must find the Earth, since now they are the only two humans in the galaxy, and their ship's time-machine was damaged. During their travels, the two heroes will find numerous alien creatures and exotic locations.I find this show to be a bit unappreciated, since it's great for any fan of sci-fi/space-operas. The relationship between the two protagonists is at the core of the show and, although the characters are nothing too special by themselves, it's really fun to watch them interact with each other.The show is lighthearted, funny and even cheesy at times, but can take itself seriously when needed.I definitely recommend this for any fan of sci-fi.
henri sauvage
This adaptation of the long-running, highly influential French comics series is a visual and intellectual treat. Although the story line differs in major details from the comics which inspired the series, it retains many of the marvelous, sometimes hilariously off-kilter concepts and alien creatures (like the Grumpy Convertor) which made the series so immensely popular.The animation -- a combination of hand-drawn and computer graphics -- is well-executed, in a mostly faithful reproduction of the richly textured universe created over four decades by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.This is light-hearted space opera, with plenty of action and humor, and yet surprisingly sophisticated for family fare, with a strongly humanistic -- though never preachy -- point of view. Highly recommended.
