This is so adorable!
The story is a bit bizarre to me, but overall it was heart-warming and great. The animation is amazing, care for details is fantastic. A lot of humorous moments to enjoy.
A story about unlikely friendship between Ernest, the bear, and a young mouse Celestine.
French can really do it. It's the third French animation movie I watch in the span of last two months and I liked them all.
I started watching not knowing a single thing about this story, so imagine my surprise seeing that it will involve teeth.
The short gist of it is bears live on the surface, they love sweets (obviously) and thus they loose teeth from time to time. Then we have mice who live underground, they built everything thanks to their teeth, but when a mouse looses their teeth it's basically game over, thus they need teeth and they take it - of course from bears. So bears have a legend of "mouse-fairy" although they don't welcome real mice.
Celestine is one of those who travels to the surface in search of teeth. Encountering a problem she is stuck in a garbage bin.
Then we have Ernest, he is living alone far from the city, waking up before spring he feels so hungry that he decided to go to the city and perform.
When nothing comes out of it he searches the garbage and finds Celestine.
In this case Celestine is a pretty smart mouse, really witty, while Ernest is more like a happy-go-lucky and loud.
She helps him open a window to sweets warehouse. She helps him again when he is arrested and makes him make a promise that he will help her in return.
In between first and second instance we see the way the mice live underground, it's pretty neet I'd say. But she as a collector of teeth is sent back to bring back at least 50 for her night failure (after all she was stuck in a garbage bin). She saw that across the sweets shop is a shop that offers teeth and they have lots of them. So she asks Ernest to rob it at night.
So you can guess these two are quite involved in criminal activities aahahha
Yet since Ernest helped her bring back the heavy load he slept underground and of course the mice noticed him (pretty cool animation moments) and a swarm of them chased after him. They came t the surface and while trying to escape they stole a van :'D I can't. The way the police bear chased them ahaha
The two managed to escape and came to Ernest's house where they spent time.
So the two through time developed this unlikely friendship through adversities. Both felt the same way, a bit lonely and feeling they don't belong among others.
All ends well, even too welland the two actually live together as two happy friends.
Want to note that although they are antropomorph animals, they still have a bit of their animal traits, especially Celestine. She won't just stand in front of the house, she can climb it. So they included a lot of such details throughout the story.
Also this has other movie and also a TV series released later.
RATE: 10/10.
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