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10/23/08
Free Jimmy (2006)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:1
Rotten:9
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: A weird, misfiring, Norwegian animated mess of a film. Unsure of who its target audience is, it misses every target.
Synopsis: Roy Arnie has a dream. One day he will run his own circus and conquer the world. Today, however, he is a stable hand working in the Circus Stromowski. Roy Arnie invites his buddies to come and work... [More]
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kyle MacLachlan, Simon Pegg, Samantha Morton
Director: Christopher Nielsen
Reviews for Free Jimmy
1 - 10 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
This adult-orientated, computer-generated animation isn’t an especially successful outing but still serves as an impressive antidote to the Disney-Pixar norm.
10/17/08
Norway may be wonderful for many things but feature-length animation currently isn't one of them.
10/17/08
Deeply unhinged, deeply awful.
10/17/08
Top CriticFree Jimmy is a sledgehammer Norwegian animation that metes out all manner of cruelty to dumb animals, not least the ones in the audience.
10/17/08
Top CriticThey say an elephant never forgets. But even the most anally-retentive pachyderm would be desperate to banish this misfiring mess to the darkest reaches of memory.
10/17/08
You would expect at least a spark of wit. But no, there’s nothing.
10/17/08
The brief relationship that the escaped elephant forms with a resourceful moose is oddly touching, but the fatuities surrounding it ensure that any deeper involvement is unlikely.
10/17/08
But the characters don’t add to the conception. Nor does the basic animation.
10/17/08
Pic could be too dark, dirty and insufficiently funny to achieve more than cult success.
05/30/06
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