{"id":352,"date":"2008-03-22T18:15:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T08:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/22\/new-parle-vu-kaiju\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T08:37:47","slug":"new-parle-vu-kaiju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/22\/new-parle-vu-kaiju\/","title":{"rendered":"New: Parl\u00e9 vu Kaiju?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>Dragon Hunters<\/strong> [aka Chasseurs de Dragons] (France\/Germany\/Luxembourg -2008; <em>animation<\/em>; dir. Guillaume Ivernel and Arthur Qwak)<\/p>\n<p>Now I haven&#8217;t watched a French animated fantasy film since&#8230; oh, <em>La Plan\u00e8te Sauvage<\/em> [aka Fantastic Planet] sometime post-1973&#8230; okay, maybe I have &#8212; were the Asterix and Tin-Tin animated films made in France? At any rate, French animation probably should be more on my radar, but it hasn&#8217;t been. <em>Chasseurs de Dragons,<\/em> which opens this month in France, looks extremely good. It&#8217;s a fantasy about a world that has become infested with a terrible plague: omnipresent, monstrously famished, mutant creatures, which wreak suitable havoc amongst the equally unruly inhabitants. Lord Arnold is worried about the return of World Eater, a particularly nasty dragon that pops by every thirty seasons to spread terror and destruction. The film follows the adventures of two reluctant dragon hunters (and would-be mussel farmers), who are, of course, sucked into the dragon hunt by Zoe, the Lord&#8217;s grand-niece.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly <em>Chasseurs de Dragons <\/em>has got a few giant monsters in it. Here&#8217;s one &#8212; not your typical dragon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/dragonhunters1.jpg\" title=\"Dragon Hunters 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/dragonhunters1.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Hunters 1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/dragonhunters2.jpg\" title=\"Dragon Hunters 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/dragonhunters2.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Hunters 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> And wait until you see what steps up to bat at the end of this trailer!<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dAo__tKIznY&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dAo__tKIznY&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The website (which has a nice hi-res version of the trailer) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasseursdedragons-lefilm.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Incredible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Hunters [aka Chasseurs de Dragons] (France\/Germany\/Luxembourg -2008; animation; dir. Guillaume Ivernel and Arthur Qwak) Now I haven&#8217;t watched a French animated fantasy film since&#8230; oh, La Plan\u00e8te Sauvage [aka Fantastic Planet] sometime post-1973&#8230; okay, maybe I have &#8212; were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/22\/new-parle-vu-kaiju\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,47,4,44,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}