Cast Jeanne Balibar
Veronique Dumont
Bruce Ellison
Stéphane Aubier
Vincent Patar
Nicolas Buysse
François de Brigode
Screenwriters
Stéphane Aubier
Vincent Patar
Directors
Vincent Patar
Stéphane Aubier
Running Time
77 minutes
Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to gift Horse with a homemade barbecue backfires when they accidentally buy 50 million bricks. Whoops! This sets off a perilously wacky chain of events as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe of pointy-headed (and dishonest!) creatures. Each speedy character is voiced—and animated—as if they are filled with laughing gas. With panic a permanent feature of life in this paper-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine paramour—flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray—ever find a quiet moment alone? A sort of Gallic Monty Python crossed with Art Clokey on acid, A Town Called Panic is zany, brainy and altogether insane-y! (Zeitgeist)
Funny and very inventive but would work better in a shorter format.
I remembered during this that in all animations when there's a static scene I can't help thinking that most of the reason for that 2-3 seconds was to pad the film out saving themselves some work. Those moments always pull me out of the story while in a live action film it's more the opposite.
