![]() ![]() The horrific bullying and sad plot-points makes this film more suitable for older kids and adults, but should be a feast for the eyes to all viewers. French rock band Dionysos’ music is fitting for the eccentric film, and the poetic duet between Jack and Miss Acacia is a pleasant change of pace from Disney love songs. Supporting characters – from the witch/inventor/midwife Madeline, and Jack’s magician travel companion, down to a giggly, two-headed lady – are whimsical and easy to like. Unending details such as a xylophone spine (that needs oiling), a chase scene through an accordion train, a little, silent, black and white film interlude, and nearly everything seen in the circus town, Extraordinarium, keep the film fresh from beginning to end. The characters look like porcelain dolls, and the rest of the visuals are just as beautiful and creepy. In order to find his singer again, Jack journeys through Edinburgh and Paris to Andalusia, despite the chance of her (literally) breaking his heart.Īlthough the story to Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is operatic, where villains and obstacles appear mostly for the sake of convenience than logic, the animation is rich with imagination and a pure pleasure to watch. Unfortunately, the young lovers lose contact when Jack suffers a minor heart failure from their exciting meeting. Despite warning that his mechanical organ would not be able to take the toll of romance, Jack falls in love with young Miss Acacia, a lovely singer with severe nearsightedness who spouts lace-like thorns when frightened. Wasting no time, midwife Madeleine takes ac. There are three rules Jack must abide by in order for his heart not to malfunction, but only one that really matters: not to fall in love. On the coldest day in the history of the world, little Jack is born with his heart frozen solid. In order to save him, a cuckoo-clock heart was substituted, complete with a clock face and pop-out bird. Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is an Animated Musical about a boy named Jack who has a cuckoo clock for a heart. On a night so cold that birds dropped from the sky and teardrops turned into ice pearls, Jack was born with a frozen heart. ![]()
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