![]() ![]() The house is hidden from Le Gibbous by a magic dome, and no one can leave. They’re saved by the skeletal Captain of the Dead, turned into vampires, and taken to a big house full of monsters. ![]() We begin with Pandora and her little boy pursued by the arrogant Le Gibbous, who wants to sacrifice them to a giant monster. Here, the vampire boy is front and center, going back to the comics’ perspective. At times it feels like a pilot for a TV cartoon - as indeed it was, in 2004 it began life as a comic by Joann Sfar ( The Rabbi’s Cat), who cowrote and directed the current film version, and has nothing to do with the books of the same name that spawned a 2000 comedy (with Jonathan Lipnicki) and its 2017 animated remake.Īside from the comics, all of those adaptations, including the 2004 series, seem to take the vantage point of the human boy who befriends the vampire boy. Essentially it’s about friendship and finding one’s way, packed with enough monsters and goth beauty to keep fans of (early) Tim Burton and Guillermo del Toro happy for a while. ![]() ![]() It’s good-hearted and has abundant charm, though not a lot seems to be at stake (no pun intended). Sometimes we want a movie that isn’t going to make us worry too much, and the amiable French animated all-ages fantasy Little Vampire falls squarely in that category. ![]()
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