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product_id: 2393314
title: "A Town Called Panic"
brand: "frédéric janninfrancois de brigode"
price: "$144.27"
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reviews_count: 7
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# A Town Called Panic

**Brand:** frédéric janninfrancois de brigode
**Price:** $144.27
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Product Description               Hilarious and delightfully wacky, the stop-motion extravaganza a Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children and adults alike. Based on the Belgian cult TV series (released by Wallace & Gromit's Aardman Studios), Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the craziest events. Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise their pal Horse with a homemade barbeque pit goes awry when the 50 million bricks they accidentally ordered online show up on their doorstep. This sets off a raucous chain of events as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra (complete with a giant snowball-throwing robot penguin) and discovers a parallel underwater universe of treacherous, pointy-headed creatures. And with panic a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine girlfriend-the flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray (Jeanne Balibar)-ever find a quiet moment alone? a Town Called Panic is zany, brainy and altogether insane-y!                  .com               Writer-directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar spun this nutty feature off their Belgian TV series A Town Called Panic (Panique au Village, 2000). When Cowboy and Indian decide to build a barbecue as a birthday gift for their friend and roommate Horse, they inadvertently order a zillion bricks, rather than the 50 the project requires. The weight of so much masonry causes the house to collapse, and a string of increasingly absurd complications ensues. The stop-motion animation is much cruder than the work in Coraline or Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Even the main characters have only a few articulations, and the directors avoid close-ups, so they don't have to animate facial expressions or lip-synch dialogue. The result feels like something an aspiring film student might make using old plastic toys. Many viewers (and critics) embraced the anarchic humor of A Town Called Panic; less sanguine audience members dismissed it as the animated equivalent of an old Cheech and Chong movie: something that's funny if you're stoned, but isn't if you're not. The extras include a making-of documentary, interviews with directors Aubier and Patar, and an assortment of deleted scenes and tests--more material than such a marginal film really warrants. (Unrated, suitable for ages 10 and older: cartoon violence, ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon               
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                        Review               Hilarious! Brilliantly imaginative and definitely one of my favorite films of the year. --Christopher Campbell, MTV.comSplendid, smile-inducing fun! --Steven Rea, Philadelphia InquirerA sophisticated fantasia that adults should enjoy equally. (In other words, it's the perfect family entertainment.) --Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor             See more

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Animation
- **Format:** Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Contributor:** Beno?t Poelvoorde, Bouli Lanners, Bruce Ellison, Christelle Mahy, Christine Grulois, Eric Muller, Fr d ric Jannin, Francois Neyken, Francois de Brigode, Frederic Jannin, Frédéric Jannin, Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Buysse, Philippe Kauffmann, Stephane Aubier, Stéphane Aubier, Veronique Dumont, Vincent Patar, Vincent Tavier, Véronique Dumont
- **Language:** French
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 15 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautifully crude, stylish, inventive, exciting... great for kids
*by D***? on May 8, 2015*

Funny, inventive... everything it says on the box is true. Watchable over and over, and the DVD extras that show some of how they made the movie are interesting - although subtitled like the movie itself. As a parent sometimes you are both reading the subtitle and interpreting the content for your kid which is a fun mental exercise. The story is funny and silly and the characters are a bit exaggerated and undeveloped but the driving force of the movie is the plot, which twists and turns delightfully. It really feels like the invention of children, but is also a beautiful and sometimes subversive work of film art.There is a bit of French cursing and some characters who are a bit angry. If you want a milder film for kids that is visually outside the box, check out Ponyo, My Neighbor Totoro and the other Studio Ghibli films.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great, Hysterical, Bizarre and Wonderful
*by L***O on April 8, 2016*

My son found this online when he was 6 or 7 - we heard him laughing and laughing his head off in the TV room. He convinced my wife to see it, I hear the two of them dying in hysterics. So I watched it with him... OH MY GOD! This is a gem. The plot loops all over the place as the characters navigate mishap after mishap. There are dream sequences, music schools for animals, cellphones lost in endless sinkholes, farmers obsessed with tractors, and host of events that somehow come full circle in the end. There are aural delights — like when Horse demonstrates his piano playing, and tiny visual details that flit by your eye in a moment and are so so funny. Kids love this movie, adults love this movie. It's bizarre, indescribable and really it comes down to you just have to watch it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A True Oddity
*by K***E on April 23, 2020*

I remember watching this movie with my brothers when I was around 9 years old. It was hilarious as a 9 year old. Today, the memory of this movie just strangely popped into my head. The thought was very random, but I am very glad I remembered it. I had forgotten the title, but all I had to do was google "cowboy and indian claymation," and sure enough this came up immediately. I am now 19 years old, and still found this movie hilarious. Honestly, I think I found the movie better now than I did as a kid, because I can read the subtitles a lot faster, and can fully appreciate the strange humor this movie has. It is one of the most creative films out there, and it has such a random plot that truly makes this the most unique experience you will have. I 100% recommend this odd little gem. It makes you feel a certain type of happy that is indescribable, and impossible to create by any other film.

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