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Lucky Luke
France / Argentina 2009
produced by Saïd Ben Saïd, Yves Marmion, Sonja Shillito (executive) for Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), France 2 Cinéma, France 3, Captain Movies, Sofica, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Procirep, Angoa-Agicoa
directed by James Huth
starring Jean Dujardin, Michaël Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prévost, Alexandra Lamy, Melvil Poupaud, Jean-François Balmer, André Oumansky, Gabriel Corrado, Pompeyo Audivert, Atilio Pozzobon, Alberto Laiseca, Mathias Sandor, Carolina Presno, Carlos Kaspar, Mirta Wons, Jorge Noya, Claudio Weppler, Horacio Marassi, Yann Sarfati, Chloé Jouannet, Kalena Bojko, Daniel Campomenosi, Alejandro Zanga, Kazuomi Takagi, Alejandro Wainstock, Luciano Cáceres, Joaquín Berthold, Marcelo Zamora, Daniel Davala, Martín Kohan, Orlando Nicodemes Vera, Mariana Suarez, Santiago Rios, Diego Martinsen, Carlos Da Silva, Óscar Kramer, Jorge Carlos Linari, Roman Chapolski, Marcio Mansilla, Sanckon Sane, Paul DeFisser, Kinda LeParc, Javier Castillo, Eugenia Zubiri, María Zubiri, Daniela Catz, Andrew Colter, Patrick Aduma, Zelie Jean Huth, Winston Huth, Gregor Bonnell Shillito, Shannon Renaudeau Shillito, Bruno Salomone (voice)
screenplay by Sonja Shillito, James Huth, Jean Dujardin, based on characters created by Morris, René Goscinny, music by Bruno Coulais
Lucky Luke, Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Jesse James
review by Mike Haberfelner
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John Luke (Jean Dujardin), called "Lucky" because he survived
a murderous attack by outlaws that killed both his parents, is sent to
Daisy Town by the president (André Oumanski) to clean it up of any
outlaws before the train tracks from the East and West are going to meet
here in a great ceremony. And of course, at first, Luke does a great job,
filling up prison after prison as he refuses to kill his opponent - and
that despite of being the quickest draw and surest shot of the West. But
then he meets Pat Poker (Daniel Prévost), a professional gambler with a
few tricks up his sleeve who knows exactly which buttons to push to enrage
Luke to meet him in a duel - where Luke shoots Poker dead, something that
throws him into an existential crisis, and he decides to hang up his guns
and lead a peaceful life with showgirl Belle (Alexandra Lamy). But life
without a gun is dangerous for Lucky, as he has made too many enemies over
the years. Sure, he has Calamity Jane (Sylvie Testud) to guard him because
she's secretly in love with Luke, as well as his old enemies Billy the Kid
(Michael Youn) and Jesse James (Melvil Poupaud), who want to kill Luke
themselves so need to keep him alive until that day. And still, Luke's
more a burden than anything else. Until he finds out that the bullets he
has shot Pat Poker with were actually blanks replaced by none other than
Belle, and that Pat Poker actually faked his own death. Thus he returns to
Daisy town to this time clean up for real ... Now one thing's
for sure, the film looks great, all the actors look their parts,
the whole thing has a comicbook feel to it and is as close to the comic
it's based on as possible. But only in looks, in regards of story this
seems like a post-modernist reinterpretation of the comics, putting
central focus on things that are at best hinted at (that Luke doesn't
shoot to kill - and there are exceptions in the comicbooks even) or
omitted altogether (like Luke's origin story), and thus really catches
fans off-guard. But that would be excusable even if the film was at least
funny, and that's what Lucky Luke isn't at all. Most of the
punchlines of the film are at best half-hearted, and too much time is
spent with Luke's existential crisis, that also really takes the steam out
of the film's narrative. A big disappointment, unfortunately.
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