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A TOWN CALLED PANIC

"Wacky, Winsome, and Funny"

What You Need To Know:

A TOWN CALLED PANIC is a wacky, charming, and funny claymation animated comedy from Belgium about three plastic toys – Cowboy, Indian, and Horse, who share a rambling house in a rural town. It’s Mr. Horse’s birthday, so Cowboy and Indian decide to build a brick barbecue for Horse. They go on the Internet to get 50 bricks but accidentally buy 50 million bricks instead! This sets off a wacky chain of events that leads to the destruction of their house and the theft of the new house they’re trying to build with the rest of the bricks. Cowboy, Indian, and Horse discover that a family of sea people living underwater is the culprit. They chase one of the culprits across three exotic locations, getting into other crazy predicaments.

A TOWN CALED PANIC is simultaneously charming, wacky, funny, and surreal. Friendship and fun adventures seem to be the movie’s main message. Regrettably, there are some obscenities and light profanities, so caution is required for children. There is, however, one positive exclamatory reference to Jesus. A TOWN CALLED PANIC is a fun, unique, and imaginative animated movie. It’s a joy to watch.

Content:

(B, C, LL, V, A, M) Light moral worldview about three animated toys trying to get back stolen parts of a new house they were beginning to build when their old house appears to be destroyed, plus one positive exclamation about Jesus; seven obscenities (including two “s” words in French, some “h” words, and the word b-a-s-t-a-r-d is said several times) and nine light profanities, such as “Good God”; plenty of light comic violence such as three mad scientists launch huge snowballs onto people and creatures who poke their heads out of the snowball, falling, characters thrown and their heads hit and enter the plaster, characters throw cows into windows of a farmhouse when creatures invade the house, characters get caught in a flood, car hits a brick barbecue, cows in house go flying when water pipes burst in house, and chase scenes, including one where barracudas chase an Indian, a cowboy, and a horse; no sex, but two horses kiss and dance; no nudity; references to drinking beer; no smoking; and, stealing but it is rebuked, some insults, policeman falsely accuses farmer of stealing, and characters sometimes trick one another, but one time it is done to get back something that was stolen.

More Detail:

A TOWN CALLED PANIC is a wacky, charming, and funny claymation animated comedy from Belgium about three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian, and Horse.

Cowboy, Indian, and Horse share a rambling house in a rural town. It’s Mr. Horse’s birthday, so Cowboy and Indian decide to build a brick barbecue for Horse. They go on the Internet to buy 50 bricks for the barbecue, but Cowboy unknowingly lays down his coffee cup on the zero key and they accidentally buy 50 million bricks!

That night, the birthday party goes late into the night. Horse is in love with Madame Longray, the horse who teaches music at the school. He promises her that he will come to her class and take piano lessons.

Horse, Cowboy, and Indian go to sleep. During the night, the remaining 49,999,950 bricks that Cowboy and Indian have stored on top of the roof start to push their house into the ground. Horse, Cowboy, and Indian barely escape with their lives.

The next day, Horse makes Cowboy and Indian start helping him rebuild their house. The next day, however, they discover someone has stolen the brick walls they built the previous day. This happens one more time before the three friends decide to lie in wait at night for whoever is stealing the walls they build and paint during the day.

They discover that a family of kleptomaniac sea people living underwater is the culprit. They chase one of the mer people to the center of the earth, onto a frozen landscape above ground, and finally underwater. As they try to get back the stolen bricks, they meet all sorts of other people, fish, and creatures who hamper their quest. Will Horse ever get to his scheduled piano lessons from Madame Longray?

A TOWN CALLED PANIC is a fun, unique, and imaginative animated movie that’s a joy to watch. The movie is simultaneously charming, wacky, funny, and surreal. Sometimes, all of the human beings and mer people have little plastic stands on which they hop around in constant motion. The movie’s surreal events are very funny. In one scene, for instance, the farmer next door eats a huge waffle with chocolate icing fixed by his wife like a buzz saw. In other places, the comedy is just charming. For example, the cows in the farmer’s barn have pillows on which to lay their heads. Also, when Madame Longray schedules the piano lessons for Horse, she tells Simon, the school clerk, to schedule 50 piano lessons for Mr. Horse. Horse sticks his head into Simon’s office and tells him to make that 100 lessons.

There doesn’t seem to be much of a message in this animated tale, beyond the positive friendship between Horse, Cowboy, Indian, and Madame Longray. In one scene, Cowboy, Horse, and Indian play a trick on the mer people to get back the house they started to build. In another scene, the mer people play a trick on them to keep the brick walls of the planned new house. Also, after everything returns to normal, Cowboy and Indian play a trick on the farmer next door in order to take a joyride on his beloved tractor. In another scene, the local policeman falsely accuses and imprisons the farmer for stealing Horse, Cowboy, and Indian’s bricks.

Regrettably, there’s some foul language in A TOWN CALLED PANIC, including a couple “s” words in French and some light profanities, such as “Good God.” In one scene, however, a positive thing happens and a character comments about it, saying, “Sweet Jesus.” Indeed.

MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for children because of the foul language and some references to drinking beer.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


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