The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear

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The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear

2017

1h 20m

Kids & Family

Adventure

Animation

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Mitcho and Sebastian embark on a perilous journey to find their town's missing mayor.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

Times (UK)

As computer animation goes, The Giant Pear proves seriously small potatoes.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 27, 2018

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

As Euro cartoons go this is a pretty decent effort.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 25, 2018

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James Mottram

South China Morning Post

The journey is a little perfunctory, and the fate of our heroes is never really in doubt, but for a Euro-produced cartoon, this film is a joyful ride full of positive messages for children.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 9, 2018

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Sarah Ward

Screen International

Bright, bouncy and busy from start to finish, Danish animation The Incredible Story Of The Giant Pear lends its buoyant exuberance to a likeable, broadly amusing and engaging-enough adventure that also doubles as an ode to loyalty and ingenuity.

Feb 19, 2018

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Yoyi Y

Excelent movie, a great jewel of animation, I don't know why people consider it bad, I liked it, it has themes that are relationed with friendship, just like Chuck's Choice or Wish Dragon with two friends, with the only difference is that are animals, in those two movies, are humans. This movie deserves a lot of knowledge by opinion of people. Put it in Netflix LATAM, I hope, because I'm from Chile but I know english, thanks for reading this review.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/29/24

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leio d

A weird, misfiring, Danish animated mess of a film.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

This was, frankly, a disappointment. With the exception of the english alternative to the movie's language causing the lip animation to seem off as well as the character's speech, the rest was revolting to watch. The concept of the pear seem to lean towards a rip-off of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, the terrible shift from one scene to the next without much as a break between to grasp what was happening and the characters that either couldn't stick to their given personality/traits (or didn't have anything to begin with) or lacked any significance for the plot let the film down drastically from its purpose to spread the message about loyalty. With the actual character development/designs, this really should have been a short film or, better yet, hand-drawn to help perfect the expressions/movement of the characters rather than rely on the computers to do the work instead. Overall, the performance mixed with the execution of the plot from the story book made it almost impossible to understand the message it wanted to give to children, especially with the strange traits some of the characters owned that didn't contribute to much of the personality.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

wonderful animated adventure story for the family to enjoy

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Philip Einstein Lipski

Director

Jørgen Lerdam

Director

Amalie Næsby Fick

Director

Alfred Bjerre Larsen

Sebastian

Liva Elvira Magnussen

Mitcho

Peter Frödin

Professor Glykose

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Synopsis

Mitcho and Sebastian embark on a perilous journey to find their town's missing mayor.

Director: Philip Einstein Lipski, Jørgen Lerdam, Amalie Næsby Fick
Producer: Thomas Heinesen, Trine Heidegaard
Screenwriter: Mads Juul, Bo Hr. Hansen, Philip Einstein Lipski, Amalie Næsby Fick, Jakob Martin Strid
Production Co: A. Film, Nordisk Film
Genre: Kids & Family, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: Danish
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 13, 2018
Runtime: 1h 20m

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