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Monique from "BigBug"

From what I've seen, it feels like a cheery, pastel-colored, mildly erotic and very openly Nouvelle Vague Française version of Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. You could also say it's also I, Robot, with less of Asimov's keen insight into personal ethics - and even less Will Smith and Alan Tudyk.

Imagine AM packing RoboCop's body and the face of a sixtysomething Franco-Algerian actor with a ridiculous set of fake grills, reducing his five prisoners to circus rounds. Imagine celebrated French actors pulling sea lion barks and their best lion roars while French RoboCop lashes a neon-blue CGI whip at them.

You'll probably have some tolerance for it, like I do, if you fell head over heels for The City of Lost Children or if you're in the Franco circuit and actually liked Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre. There's a lot of returning actors in there.

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