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 film doesn't surprise in any way. Compared to The Incredible Shrinking Man, it's just a cheap imitation without any special effects. Well, there are a few, but it's still a rip-off. The film doesn't offer anything particularly new, maybe except for the puppet idea, which is somewhat passable, although it's not a groundbreaking concept, and the focus seems to be mainly on making it look interesting. But it doesn't. (10/07/2014)