NTB melder om at Slipp Jimmy Fri fikk en lunken mottakelse under visningen i Cannes
¿Noen forlot salen under visningen, og det var knapt en håndfull med unisone latterutbrudd fra de fremmøtte gjennom hele filmen¿.
Christopher Nielsen var imidlertid ikke så nedslått over mottakelsen:
¿At mottakelsen her nede ikke nødvendigvis ble like entusiastisk som i Norge, det hadde jeg nok belaget meg på¿
Enkelte scener i filmen er imidlertid Nielsen forundret over at folk ikke lo av:
¿Slik som når de fire skurkene kjører lastebilen opp på vidda og holder på å fryse seg ihel, uten å oppdage at frontruta ikke er der. Den har de fleste andre som har sett filmen ledd av¿.
I Variety reflekterte anmeldelsen denne beherskede responsen. Anmelder Leslie Felperin mener filmens premiss i utgangspunktet virket mer enn lovende:
¿Norwegian-Brit co-prod «Free Jimmy» plays like some unholy cross between «Dumbo,» «Fritz the Cat» and «Requiem for a Dream.»
Men den engelske versjonen av filmen er ikke anmelderen helt fornøyd med:
¿Despite use of name voice cast for English-lingo incarnation shown in Cannes, pic could be too dark, dirty and insufficiently funny to achieve more than cult success offshore.¿
Samtidig fortsetter ¿Free Jimmy¿ å skape forventninger i Europa og USA. Overskrifter fra britiske Daily Mail om ¿animasjonssjokk¿ vil neppe dempe forventingene:
¿A British-Norwegian film about a «stoned» elephant, which boasts the film world’s first 3D digitally-animated sex scene, is expected to spark controversy in Cannes.¿
Også en rekke profilerte bloggere venter i spenning, som hos podcast-kringkasteren Hollywood saloon
¿Ok, I’m gonna go out on a limb by plugging a Norwegian movie. I feel like this film has potential outside it’s nationality given it’s originality. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m so unbelievable bored by the sugary sweet animatics Pixar and Dreamworks have been making for the last few years. I enjoyed Shrek simply because it had so many good jokes and pop culture references, so it was equally enjoyable for children and adults. The recent films like Finding Nemo and The Incredibles, however cute, barely make me laugh at all. I just find it refreshing that someone made an animated film for adults. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no smut peddler, but there’s something very bizzare about sex, drugs and guns in a cartoon.¿
Også bloggerne på Cinematical er spente:
¿Personally, I’m encouraged — the criticism of the movie (released last month in Norway) focus almost entirely on the awful script. Since it looks fantastic and the story is clearly insane, if Pegg actually succeeded in fixing the dialogue, this could be something pretty freaking awesome¿
Hollywood North Report spør seg om ikke ¿Free Jimmy¿ er ¿too weird for Cannes¿.
¿Although the live-action, Vancouver-shot Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders may take the prize for having the weirdest animated sex images ever produced for a movie, «No one has seen a film like this», said Radclyffe about Free Jimmy, selected for the closing ceremony of Critics’ Week at Cannes. It’s almost as if this is going to be the year of adult animation at Cannes.¿
