"Tati's masterful mime easily inspires an animated treatment, recapturing his graceful comic body language and 'no subtitles required' international appeal."

A bittersweet film about people who can't keep up with ever-changing world, about kindness, love, illusions and rabbits. Animation is amazing and score is simply beautiful - Chomet is truly an all-around artist. Screenplay was originally written by Tati, if you have seen any of his films, you know what to expect. One of the years best films.

A very unique animated film.I loved how both the Pantomime style of "acting" and the music is very old school in relation to a story about how the new is supplanting the old.

Didn't love this quite as much as certain others. The execution is excellent, the soundtrack sublime, but while many parts of this were beautifully tragic when it came down to it I just didn't care enough about the characters.

It crawls at a snails pace. It is depressing but not quite depressing enough. It is about a dying breed, the magician. Much too slow for me

One of the most beautiful audio-visual movie composions since a long long time. I would compare the intense feeling of "The Illusionist" with the works of Miyazaki. Simply wonderful!

Stunningly beautiful piece of work. Incredibly characterful animation.

Beautifully drawn and full of detail. Old fashioned and it needs hardly any dialogue to tell it's story which is fairly sad.

gorgeous, melancholy movie

Accompanying Tartischeff the Magician is a girl named Alice, and I think her transformation is the most important part of the movie. While she grows into a city-minded young woman he falls out of touch with the rest of the world...and eventually her too.

Wonderful! A great example of how a lot can be told with very few words. One of the best soundtracks I've heard as well.

beautifully crafted but poorly developed.

There's a poetic synergy to the whole film: in the cadence of the narrative, the wistful composition, the pathos of everything... I loved it to death, yet found it ridiculously sad. I had a friend compare it to the The Giving Tree, and he was spot on.

Better than anything Tati would have done with the material.