Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

Name: Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Animation
Released: September 24, 2014
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 56

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Shout! Factory | Release Date: September 24, 2014 | PG

Summary: Edinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife saves his life by inserting a cuckoo-clock in place of his defective heart. It will work, she warns him, as long as Jack observes three golden rules. First of all, he must never touch the hands of the clock. Secondly, heEdinburgh, late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife saves his life by inserting a cuckoo-clock in place of his defective heart. It will work, she warns him, as long as Jack observes three golden rules. First of all, he must never touch the hands of the clock. Secondly, he must control his anger. And last, but certainly not least, he must never, ever fall in love. The moment Jack sets eyes on a young girl singing on a street corner, the hands of his clock-heart begin to race. Desperate to find her again, Jack launches himself into a romantic quest that will lead him from the lochs of Scotland, to the city of Paris, and all the way to Andalusia.… Expand

Director: Mathias Malzieu and Stéphane Berla

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Animation, Musical

Rating: PG

Runtime: 94 min

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Sherilyn Connelly

Sep 23, 2014

The characters aren't quite stylized enough; though they have skinny bodies and disproportionately big heads, their just-realistic-enough facial features often veer into the Uncanny Valley. Read full review

Rob Humanick

Sep 21, 2014

The film is at once enabled and hindered by its utter strangeness, an intrinsic quality surely exacerbated in its English-language release. Read full review

Charles Solomon

Sep 23, 2014

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart stubbornly remains less than the sum of its parts. But its rich visual imagery suggests the talented artists involved could create something exciting and truly original if they had a better script. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Sep 28, 2014

Rather than linger on the project’s shortcomings, which only disappoint relative to the story’s incredible creative potential, it should be said that in partnership with Berla, Malzieu has created a fully realized, wildly imaginative storybook world and populated it with eccentric characters. Read full review

McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Moore

Sep 23, 2014

There’s no humor and no pathos. The Cuckoo-Clock Heart, pretty as it is, lacks any heart at all. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Sep 28, 2014

This computer animated work has strikingly designed characters, and some good isolated sequences, but the script’s un bordel (French for shambolic mess). Read full review

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sebastianali

Mar 14, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jack y el reloj cucu (basado por cierto en el libro francés del mismo nombre, libro que recomiendo), es una gran película con un potencial tremendamente desperdiciado, podría haber sido una obra maestra. Lo tenían todo para hacer una película excelente! Buena historia (ya hablaremos de ello), buenos personajes y un estilo artístico precioso que es raro de ver a día de hoy. Pero todo esto es arruinado por la cantidad excesiva de canciones y por algunas situaciones algo absurdas. Principalmente las canciones, que dura muchísimo y la trama dura poco. No me molesta que hayan canciones en una película, siempre y cuando se le de mas importancia a la trama y las canciones sean buenas, y que combinen bien con lo que esta pasando, algo así como Aladdin.
Hay personajes en esta película que me encantaron, especialmente Joe, que su manera de hablar de forma metafórica y poética de forma agresiva hacia Jack lo hacen un personaje único. También personajes como Madeleine son bastante memorables. Lo que si, el final no se entiende mucho, aunque podría dar a entender o que Jack murió o que al final si que Madeleine era una bruja como decían después de todo y el reloj libero su poder, pero bueno, esto son solo teorías mías. El final da algo de pena por los personajes, ya que termina mal y ademas te dejan con ganas de mas a pesar de que, como ya dije, las canciones arruinan gran parte de la experiencia de la película. Una secuela o un reboot no seria para nada una mala idea, considerando que la base, y el potencial de la película son increíbles, es decir, una madre que abandona a su hijo con una extraña y que le remplaza su corazón por un reloj para evitar que muera pro el frió y que tenga que seguir 3 reglas para no morir, pero que termina desobedeciendolas por el amor intenso que tiene hacia una persona? Podría decir que es una de las mejores películas románticas a pesar de que le de un 6, por que como ya dije, el potencial de esta película es tremendo. Yo la disfrute mucho, y puedo recomendarla, siempre y cuando aguantes el tema de las canciones.… Expand

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