Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2014)

As others have noted the audience should be for an older audience. It is a unique piece that is highly underrated. The mixture of art, poetry, and music leaves you breathless. The ending leaves one speechless. This truly is a masterpiece.I'd be curious to see how this would perform in Japan as it seems more culturally up their alley in terms of how a mass audience would react to a work such as this.

Maybe it loses something in translation into English, but I thought the movie was boring and the violence and singing about Jack the Ripper like it was okay was just SERIOUSLY damaged!! I came upon the movie by accident and thought it was going to be more like The Boxtrolls which wasn't a great movie but at least it was watchable, tho had I seen it previously, I would NOT have bought it for my children!! I'm VERY glad that I did not let them watch this one as Boxtrolls was already disturbing enough and it was NOTHING in comparison to this one!! Unfortunately the previews made the movies seem better than they actually are. No idea how this movie got such high stars overall. Avoid and save yourself from awful thoughts and songs and images getting stuck in your head!!

OKAY SO ///spoilers/// from the get-go this movie showed glaring red flags. from the witch lady who replaces his heart with a clock??? does he have a circulatory system?? what is happening? and then after a huge amount of other concerning things, such as a British Edward Cullen (???)basically bullies jack and in the process his eye is stabbed by the cuckoo, jack the ripper pops up, its casual. he's singing about slaughtering people, as jack the ripper does, you do you, bro. there is some weird stuff with a french dude who falls in love with a two headed lady at a literal freak show. and then when you think "this couldn't get worse, right?" he turns suicidal and decides to throw away his life and climb the snowflakes, "wow." ///spoiler over/// if you are on the hunt for an unintentional Rom-com that will make you laugh harder than twilight purely because of it's awkward and unexplained possibly nonexistent plot (thorns????????), then this is the movie for you, Fam.

I found myself skipping through the film as I do not like the Laika- like style and animation for the beginning. So, at some points it is sub-par but others, I just hate it. The story is also not quite as interesting, it's pretty sentimental as it's about a boy with a cuckoo- clock on his heart that tells him the three rules: "Not to fall in love, not to get angry, and not to touch the hands of the clock" or he will die. Madeleine protects him from it.He then meets a little girl while wandering off that is the same age as him, singing while winding up a music box. He then starts to fall in love with her. While, I admit, this does has cute romance, I didn't care for the Boxtrolls style and animation for it.