La Révolte des poupées

The suggestive title and poster lie, of course, as usual. You won’t see any attack by little people. The idea is that a mad doll maker shrinks six people to the size of puppets using a special machine, keeps them in a jar and uses them to banish his loneliness. The inspiration from the brilliant The Incredible Shrinking Man, released a year earlier, is obvious and they use the same FX, but in poorer quality. So there's a fusion of images from different dimensions, a surprisingly functional front projection of a table (on which the little people “frolic”), larger-than-life things like a giant phone, a glass, a suitcase, a bar of soap and a bathing can. On the other hand, in the last ten minutes, the little people flee from a horrifically out-of-control translucent rat, run from the eye-popping rear projections of the street, and chase away a rabid dog. What's also a lot of fun is Gordon's typical self-promotion, this time the main characters are sitting in the cinema watching his The Amazing Colossal Man and clearly enjoying it :o) (11/01/2009)

This movie doesn't surprise at all in anything. Compared to "The Incredible Shrinking Man," it's just a cheap rip-off without any tricks. Well, there are a few, but it's still a rip-off. The film doesn't offer anything new, maybe just the idea with puppets is somewhat decent, although it's not a groundbreaking concept, and it's only focused on making it look interesting. It doesn't look that way. (10/07/2014)