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What You Need To Know:
GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE is a breezy, fun, and sometimes funny animated adventure for families. It has wonderful characters that viewers can relate to, a fast-paced storyline that includes exhilarating action sequences and a beautiful message of teamwork, friendship and kindness. It does suffer slightly with character development. GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE has a strong moral worldview with some Christian, redemptive content. For example, the amusement park is next to a church. Also, the movie extols family, forgiveness, loyalty, justice, and self-sacrifice. However, there’s a haunted house, a character who thinks she’s a fortune teller with occult symbols on her clothes, and some cartoon violence, disobedience and stealing. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.
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Strong moral worldview with light Christian, redemptive moments where the main character practices and encourages kindness to everyone, a character commends another character for her team spirit and courage and self-sacrifice, movie extols friendship, family, kindness, forgiveness, teamwork, and loyalty, positive father and daughter relationship overall, daughter wants to help her father, and heroine and her father live at an amusement park next to a church, but there is a Romantic element where the heroine wants to follow her dream of being a professional racer but it’s also with the goal of helping her father, plus some occult references where heroine and her father live in a haunted house at an amusement park next to a church with and the house has some scary Halloween images, including ghosts and pumpkins, but nothing occultic specifically happens, though one;
No foul language, but one character says heck, there’s a passing gas sound, there is talk of “butt” scratching, and two characters scratch their rear ends in the next scene, and snot lands on the screen when a character sneezes;
Light cartoon violence involve cars crashing into one another in a race with cars rolling over on the side of the track with no sign of injury or blood, bats get hurt, character injures his arm injured, and someone sets a fire, but there’s no injury;
No sex;
No nudity;
No alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs; and,
Daughter leaves home without telling her father, daughter steals a car, and there are no consequences, and the daughter is never apologetic about it, two characters threaten another character, but it is rebuked, and a character calls another character a diabolical wizard.
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GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE begins with Edda daydreaming about racing in the Grand Prix. Her father tells her to get her head out of the clouds. He also tells her that, when racing at the amusement park, she’s supposed to let the customers win. Edda apologizes and leaves but ends up leaving chaos wherever she goes when she tries to help people in the park but only makes things worse.
Edda lives in a haunted house in the amusement park with her father. Her mother passed away, which makes things difficult for them. On top of that, Edda’s father must deal with a couple of corrupt cats who demand a loan from him. Neither Edda nor her father know what to do, but Edda says she’ll think of something.
While watching some fireworks with her friends, one of her friends gives Edda the idea to hand out park flyers to people at the pre-Grand Prix party to save her father’s amusement park. An accident at the party leads to Ed and Edda meeting each other. Because of the accident, Edda must take Ed’s place in the race on the condition that he split the prize money with her.
GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE is a breezy, fun and sometimes funny animated adventure the whole family can enjoy. It has wonderful characters that audiences can relate to, a fast-paced storyline that includes exhilarating action sequences and a beautiful message of teamwork, friendship, and kindness. Good clearly triumphs over evil, which is a great lesson for children. The movie even comes close to Pixar-level animation that leaves a long-lasting impression after the end credits roll. It’s also an unexpected tear-jerker (Walt Disney famously said that, for every tear, there must be a laugh).
Originally filmed in German, the movie’s English language version features a stellar cast. Gemma Arterton plays Edda and delivers all her lines with the infectious energy required for her character. Thomas Brodie-Sangster from PHINEAS AND FERB and MAZE RUNNER fame plays Ed. He understood the assignment when told to portray a cocky character who claims not to need anyone in his life. Hayley Atwell from CAPTAIN AMERICA and the last two MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies revels in the role of Cindy the fox as she gets to play a mischievous character. Because of the sheer level of craftsmanship behind this movie, it is one of those movies that will stick in the minds of many moviegoers.
GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE does suffer slightly from uneven character development and reactions to what other characters say. The movie runs for 98 minutes. This is great for children, so they don’t get bored, but what makes the early Pixar movies so great is that they have massive universal appeal that both adults and children can latch onto. Certain scenes could have been drawn out a little more to allow for more breathing room and for some payoffs to feel earned. Also, the movie has a few eye-rolling puns, and some of the other attempts at comedy don’t always work.
GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE has a strong light moral worldview with some light Christian, redemptive content. For example, the heroine practices and encourages kindness to everyone. Also, one character commends another for her team spirit, courage and self-sacrifice. The movie also extols friendship, family, kindness, forgiveness, and loyalty.
However, the movie has a light Romantic element. Thus, the heroine wants to follow her dream of being a professional racer, but it’s also with the goal of helping her father. Also, she has a good foundation from her father laid out for her.
Also, GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE has some light occult elements. For example, the heroine and her father live in a haunted house at an amusement park, but the park is next to a church. The house has some scary Halloween imagery, such as ghosts and pumpkins, but nothing occultic happens. However, a side character is a fortune teller who carries a crystal ball with two Tarot cards on her hat. This is played for laughs, though, because the character always presents two options for the future while not knowing which one will happen. That said, a scene occurs later where the character is surprised one of her predictions came true.
Finally, GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE also includes some cartoon violence, some disobedience and stealing. So, although the movie’s fairly wholesome overall, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children.
By the way, the Ed and Edda characters in GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE are mascots at the popular Europa-Park amusement park in Germany. The owners put these and other characters in movies, shorts and television programs.
