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En route, they are attacked on two occasions by Maltazard's soldiers. From the Minimoys, Arthur learns that they are in danger from Maltazard, a Minimoy war hero who now rules the nearby 'Necropolis', after corruption by a weevil, by whom he has a son named Darkos.ДЄrthur, reflecting his legendary British namesake, draws a sacred sword from its recess and uses it to protect the Minimoys from Maltazard's soldiers whereupon Sifrat, the ruler of the Minimoys, sends Arthur to Necropolis, with the princess Selenia and her brother Betameche. He is met in the garden by the Bogo Matassalai, who reduce Arthur to Minimoy size. When Daisy receives a two-day deadline to pay a large sum of money to a building developer named Ernest Davido, who plans to evict the two, Arthur looks for the rubies to pay off the debt and discovers various clues left by his grandfather.

Arthur becomes enamoured of a picture of Selenia, the princess of the Minimoys. Daisy entertains Arthur with stories of his grandfather's adventures in Africa, featuring the tall Bogo Matassalai and the minuscule Minimoys, of whom the latter now live in Archibald's garden, protecting a collection of rubies. His grandfather Archibald has recently gone missing and he sees little of his parents (who are away looking for work).

In 1960, protagonist 10-year-old Arthur lives with his grandmother Daisy in a quiet farm house on a dirt road, in a small rural community in Northeastern Connecticut (based on Sterling). Its soundtrack album was released on 9 January 2007. It received the Imagina Award in the category Prix du Long-MГ©trage.

#ARTHOR AND THE INVISIBLES SERIES#

It also spawned multiples video games, an animated television series and theme park attractions at Futuroscope and Europa-Park. The film's success in France spawned a media franchise with two sequels, Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard (2009) and Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds (2010), and a spin-off, Arthur, malГ©diction (2022). The film was also a box-office success in France but under-performed in the United States. It received positive reviews from critics in France but was received negatively in the United States, with criticism aimed at the animation and script, but praises for the voice performances and visual aspects. With a budget of в‚¬60 million, it was briefly the most expensive French film production, until it was surpassed by AstГ©rix at the Olympic Games (2008). It was re-released in France on 4 April 2007 with nineteen minutes of bonus footage. It is based on the first two books of the Arthur children's books series, Arthur and the Minimoys and Arthur and the Forbidden City, by Besson.ДЄrthur and the Invisibles was released theatrically in France on 29 November 2006 by EuropaCorp, followed by wide releases in a number of countries. Arthur and the Invisibles or Arthur and the Minimoys (French: Arthur et les Minimoys) is a 2006 English-language French fantasy animated/live-action film directed and co-written by French filmmaker Luc Besson.

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