France 1941, in a world where most inventions that define the 20th century, like elictiricity and airplanes, just haven't been made because all of humankind's top scientists have been abducted by ... well, more of that later. As a result, the world relies on charcoal rather than oil, and wars are fought over forests. The French, still ruled by a descendant of Napoleon, have a habit to incarcerate their top scientists who aren't willing to help them in their war efforts - but they haven't succeeded in getting hold of the parents of April, inventors of a super-soldier serum, before they were abducted, and thus bumbling cop Pizoni is now after April, who's trying to continue her parents' research, and who lives with her talking cat Darwin inside of a statue ... and she's much to clever to be caught by Pizoni, which is why he has hired ex-con Julius to tail her - and as the two fall in love, he soon figures he's got her ... when April and company are attacked by something that seems like an electric cloud with a mind of its own, and they only manage to escape thanks to April's super scientist granddad's walking (and swimming) house. Eventually though, April and friends and granddad end up where her parents have been abducted to, a kind of sanctuary for super scientists who have been made prisoners by ... lizards in robot suits. And these lizards plan to blow up the earth - but not if April can help it ...

April and the Etraordinary World is above all else ... just wow. Sure, it's by no means the first steampunk film, and you'll probably have seen most of its best ideas somewhere else - but the way this is put together is just incredible, and its story is not just well-structured with all the suspense and surprise twists at just the right moments, it's also incredibly entertainingly told - and the charming art and animation don't hurt one bit either of course.

Definitely a must-see!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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