{"id":8192,"date":"2020-06-06T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/?page_id=8192"},"modified":"2021-09-21T04:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T09:54:32","slug":"the-extraordinary-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-2010-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/movie-reviews\/the-extraordinary-adventures-of-adele-blanc-sec-2010-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec (2010) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-1 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TheExtroadinaryAdventuresofAdeleBlancSecPoster-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8193\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TheExtroadinaryAdventuresofAdeleBlancSecPoster.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/?attachment_id=8193\" class=\"wp-image-8193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TheExtroadinaryAdventuresofAdeleBlancSecPoster-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/TheExtroadinaryAdventuresofAdeleBlancSecPoster.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/retromaggedon.com\/index.php\/movie-reviews\/\">here<\/a> to visit our movie review section for more!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec (2010)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>~Review by Grawlix (June 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year is 1912. Parisian travel journalist and all-purpose adventuress Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec (Her surname translates to \u201cDry White\u201d. She\u2019s from a winemaking family, you see.) is exploring an ancient Egyptian tomb in search of the mummified remains of the royal physician to Ramses II. Five years before, Ad\u00e8le\u2019s sister was paralyzed in an unfortunate mishap and Ad\u00e8le hopes that ancient knowledge can succeed where modern medicine has failed. In due course, she finds the mummy. The good doctor has been dead for some 5000 years, an obstacle Adele seeks to overcome with the assistance of the brilliant but eccentric Professor Esp\u00e9randieu. Unfortunately, Esp\u00e9randieu has problems of his own, having inadvertently awoken a prehistoric pterodactyl (as opposed to a modern one, I suppose), in a psychic experiment gone awry, which is now rampaging across the skies of France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you might guess, <em>Ad\u00e8le<\/em> is not a film that takes itself too seriously. Based on a 1970s French comic series, there\u2019s an uninhibited sense of fancy that practically leaps off the screen, a styling that is firmly within director Luc Besson\u2019s wheelhouse. The action and adventure speed forward regardless of otherwise rational limitations. For example, when Ad\u00e8le repeatedly attempts to break an associate out of jail, her only penalty for failure is being brusquely ejected from the premises, free to try again. There\u2019s also plenty of humor, mostly in the form of a harried police inspector tasked with ending the pterodactyl menace and the big game hunter he hires to help, but rarely does any scene go by without someone making a wry, offhand remark about the absurdity of the present circumstances. If there\u2019s a knock on the film at all, it\u2019s that some of the CG effects haven\u2019t aged so well, but then, CG effects rarely do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a little surprising to me that <em>The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec<\/em> hasn\u2019t gotten more play in America. Adele herself is like a cross between Lara Croft and Mary Poppins, a learned, cultured lady of taste and sophistication who is nonetheless willing to tear her dress and dirty her hands if the situation calls for it &#8211; practically tailor made for a fairly large potential US audience. I\u2019d say the movie would make perfect family viewing if it wasn\u2019t for a brief topless bath scene (ah, the French), but supposedly there\u2019s a PG cut that snips those offending bits out. It\u2019s possible that it might be a little too out-there for the casual viewer, but if you\u2019re the type who enjoys movies that probably wouldn\u2019t make it past a focus group, <em>The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec <\/em>is well worth the effort of seeking out.<em> <\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Side note, I viewed the French language version of the film, subtitled in English. There is an English dubbed version, but I can\u2019t comment of its quality. Can\u2019t imagine it would be too bad, though. This isn\u2019t exactly a movie that lives or dies by line deliveries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Final Score: B<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine if Lara Croft was introduced in a French comic book twenty years before the release of <em>Tomb Raider<\/em> and you basically have <em>The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec<\/em>. Sometimes the cultural differences trip things up, but the pervasive sense of whimsy and abandon is infectious and impossible to ignore. It is absolutely criminal that it isn\u2019t better known and hasn\u2019t produced any sequels (a trilogy was originally planned, but it\u2019s been almost a decade, and nada.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Trailer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (2010) Official Trailer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DAhmCHnNcWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>More About The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Extraordinary_Adventures_of_Ad%C3%A8le_Blanc-Sec_(film)\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Extraordinary_Adventures_of_Ad%C3%A8le_Blanc-Sec_(film)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to visit our movie review section for more! The Extraordinary Adventures of Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec (2010) ~Review by Grawlix (June 2020) The year is 1912. Parisian travel journalist and all-purpose adventuress Ad\u00e8le Blanc-Sec (Her surname translates to \u201cDry White\u201d. 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