April and the Extraordinary World Page #6

Synopsis: In 1941, the world is radically different from the one we know from history books. Geopolitics has developed strangely: Napoleon V rules France and, for the last 70 years, scholars have been mysteriously disappearing, depriving mankind of their inventions. Without radio, television, electricity, aviation, and the combustion engine, the world is mired in outdated technology, dozing in the previous century's knowhow dominated by coal and steam. In this bizarre universe, Avril (Marion Cotillard), a teenage girl, Darwin (Philippe Katerine), her talking cat, Pops (Jean Rochefort), her grandfather, and Julius (Marc-André Grondin), a young scoundrel and police informer, go off in search of Avril's parents, two of the missing scientists. The quartet will face many dangers and mysteries in this strange new Rigged World.
Production: GKIDS
  1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
PG
Year:
2015
105 min
$294,311
Website
344 Views


Oh, Julius, I want to

spend my life with you!

And I'll just forget you turned my Pops

over to the police and lied to me!

Yeah, well, if they hadn't nabbed

Pops, we wouldn't be here!

So it's kinda thanks to me you

might find your mom and dad!

To think I've been looking for my

parents and you're the one I find!

Is that it?

Are you finished?

Now, what do we do?

How do I know?

Why don't you go sniff around

ahead and see what you can find?

So I'm taking all the risks.

Oh, great idea!

Go sniff ahead yourself.

Aw, Darwin, don't be mad.

Come back.

No, I need to go to the little feline's

room, and I would like some privacy.

For a cop,

I'm behind bars a lot.

Incredible!

Is your cage comfortable?

It wasn't me! He's the one

who broke your machine!

Let me go,

I'll work for you.

Discipline is my forte!

Where is April?

That is precisely

what I'd like to know.

Me, too.

I am fairly sure

you are lying.

Rodrigue!

Will you stop playing

the cruel male?

Clearly, they don't

know anything.

The children found the nose of

the Airocopter and footprints.

We must continue

to search.

See that? Had him right

where I wanted him.

Couple more minutes,

we woulda been free.

Pops.

Paul?

Ma, that smells good!

Can I taste it?

If you want.

It's cockroach pt.

Grazi mille, but I know how much

you need your protein.

Sure you don't want any?

Oh, oh, cara micia,

I have work to do.

Huh? I thought these

scientists were prisoners.

Ma, I'm so tired of Schumann.

Couldn't they play some Verdi?

What's up, doc?

Tell me, dear colleague,

Annette and Paul Franklin,

do you know where they are?

Scusi, ma...

Who are you?

We're, uh...

The Franklins,

where are they?

Ma! You don't know

who you are?

And why are you looking for Signore

Franklin? The traitor! Who are you?

Guard! Hurry!

Come here! Spies!

Aiuto!

Not here. Stupido!

Huh?

Aw!

Oh, no!

I didn't press save!

Activate the

emergency generators.

It'll take time,

Chimne.

Go see what happened

to the power.

Night falls fast

around here.

Papa!

Paul!

Oh!

So, what do we do now?

We have to find

April, right away!

And Annette?

Don't worry about her.

Hmm.

Hmm?

Hey, tadpole!

Hmm?

Over here!

Hmm?

Please, no!

I have vertigo!

Paul and Annette Franklin.

Where are they?

I don't know where the female is.

The male is locked up!

Father?

Imprisoned? Where?

The cell area.

Follow the blue lights.

I can't stand these lousy vines!

Hey! Where

are we going?

To find my daughter.

I have an idea where she might be.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Your family's no longer my business.

I just want to

get outta here.

How do ya leave this

godforsaken jungle?

Stupid vegetation!

I'd say we'll survive

without his help.

All right.

Due to the power failure,

the surveillance system's down.

You can get out

through the chimney.

The chimney?

Father? This is 521.

I'll pass you to 238.

We just found him.

What's happening, 238?

Is it April and her gang?

Yes. They're headed

for the cells.

They're looking

for Paul Franklin.

They have my ray gun.

Sorry, Papa.

If they're here,

then we've got them.

They have no way out.

Be gentle.

Let's have no more

shootouts, all right?

Chimne, I just had an idea.

A non-violent one.

I think you'll like it.

Paul! Paul, slow down.

I'm not 60 anymore.

Can you tell me

where we're going?

April doesn't

know this jungle.

So, she's bound

to be captured.

And I know just where

they'll take her.

Tell me, what does

she look like now?

Follow the blue lights!

It's not that complicated.

But someone didn't want to walk

in the middle of the path.

Someone wanted to blend in with the

vegetation like some wild animal!

Well someone was just trying

to avoid being discovered.

Well, now,

someone has gotten us lost!

Will you two

keep it down?

They can hear you

miles away!

Huh?

Mama?

April!

Mama!

Mama, look.

Darwin's here, too.

And he's...

Uh... Julius.

We'll get to know

each other later.

We can't stay here.

We have to go.

You escaped,

right?

You were in a cell,

like Father?

You know how

to get him out?

I'll explain

everything.

Magnificent, huh?

A technological paradise.

A paradise

with prisoners.

Where is he?

April, here, the greatest minds of

the world work alongside animals.

Lizards and scientists, together

for the success of the Project.

What are you talking about?

What project?

Does it have to do

with the serum?

Why aren't you a prisoner

like Father?

Hold on tight.

Welcome, April.

You lied to me.

You betrayed us!

I have not lied nor betrayed.

April, you are here

for the best of causes.

Yes. Excellent work,

thank you.

Ah, the last of the Franklins.

What a displeasure it has

been to know this family

for such a long time.

Here's your serum.

Is that what you wanted?

Take it. Bring me

my father and let us go!

You fool. It's not what's

inside that globe I want,

it's what's inside

your head!

What we want, April, is what

you searched so long for

and finally found.

The formula

that saved your cat,

the real Ultimate Serum.

What are you talking about?

My cat was cured by the serum my

parents made. The one in the globe.

My own formula didn't work!

April, the serum

we left you,

we've tested for 10 years,

but to no avail.

We recreated it here,

and it always failed.

329!

Uh... I'm 156, Mama.

This is Spyrat-217

that we sent to

your laboratory.

It only took a few drops

of your serum

for him to recover from

his encounter with your cat.

Like Darwin,

this rodent has mutated.

It can regenerate and survive

any attack on its cells.

You see that?

I could be a warrior!

A cat ninja!

How could I ever create

something like that in my lab?

No! Darwin!

What kind of a monster

are you?

Silence! And watch.

Cat ninja!

That wasn't necessary.

April. You're going to recreate

the Ultimate Serum here,

for the Project.

The Project?

The emergency

generators are now operational.

Activating now.

You see this rocket?

It's covered with specimens of plants.

It will explode in deep space,

scattering billions of spores

cultivated in this jungle.

Once you've treated them

with your serum,

the spores will be able

to survive the explosion

and the interstellar vacuum.

They'll spread to new planets,

where they will flourish and multiply.

Thanks to you, April,

life will never end.

The vegetation

is in the rocket,

waiting for your serum.

Uh... Hold on...

You're going to blow up a

huge bomb to save life?

That's why you

need all this science?

April, thanks to

your ancestor, Gustave,

we understand the way

you utilize science.

And you will eventually

destroy yourselves

and all around you.

Use your knowledge to preserve

life with our solution.

Far from your world,

nature will survive.

You think this

makes you good?

You stole my parents,

destroyed a cable car,

and killed its passengers!

It was an accident.

A tiny one compared to the

casualties of your wars.

If you refuse

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