[MOVIE] The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)

An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century and focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions. (IMDb)

I feel sorry for this movie, I think I heard it did not do well in the box office. But actually it fits to make a series of adventure movies. 

Adele is a novelist and is quite popular in her field, she writes and researches for one single goal, to save her sister (this plot is different from the comics and adds more emotional drama). For this she travels to Egypt and wants to steal a mummy of the most famous doctor close to Pharao. She wants to bring him back to life. Yeah, this movie is full of supernatural element.

Although it has a light-hearted tone of a comdey, but when it comes to her sister you can feel the guilt and despair of doing anything, including believing in supernatural.

Directed by Luc Besson, most knows for The Fifth Element.

I've seen the original comics, I couldn't read it (it was in French) but must say they picked a gorgeous actress to be a female lead and also adapted the comics well. Although of course they brought up their own work into it. Especially the paranormal element (like in the second issue of the comic(?) there is a story about a monster which ends up being a costume, stuff like that).

The movie has elements of mysticism, which is quite interesting. But I personally like that they gave it a bit of a comic look (just looking at the detective with his big fake ears and nose). It reminded me how Adventures of Tintin from 2011 looked like (but that also did not receive as much praise). I don't know, I hink it gives the movie this unrealistic and fun feel.

But Adele is fearless in what she does because she has a strong motive and it's remarkable.

The plotline isn't anything complicated, although a bit unexpected (I mean dinosaur egg hatching, of course it's something unexpected). Also.. French totally do not beautify, I think the only truly pretty part are women. While men are either ugly or weird.

Actually, I forget to post about movies I watch here, I just remembered about this one and decided to share.

Edit 8/8/25

I decided to share the difference between the comic and the movie. 

This scene has nothing to do with what happened in the movie, but was used regardless (a place where Adele reads her mail haha)