Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010)

Original title

Muumi ja punainen pyrstötähti

Directed by

Maria Lindberg

Genre

fantasy film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

L

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Based on the Moomin books, this film follows the Moomintroll and his friends as they chase a comet heading toward Moominvalley. It combines stop-motion animation with a new soundtrack and features Swedish voice actors.

whimsicalgentleplayfullightheartednostalgiccozyadventurousfamily-friendly

What happens

Moomins and the Comet Chase is a 2010 3D stop motion animated fantasy adventure comedy family film compiled from the Comet in Moominland-based episodes of the 1977–1982 The Moomins television series animated at Se-ma-for in Poland, restored and re-soundtracked with multiple voice actors replacing the single narrator. It is the second such Moomin film produced by Finnish children's film company Filmkompaniet, the first being Moomin and Midsummer Madness, and the first one converted to stereoscopic 3-D. A similar revision of the remainder of the series for high-definition television of all 78 episodes was released in 2010. The same novel has been adapted into film at least twice before, with the 1978 Russian stop motion serial Mumi-troll and the 1992 Japanese traditional animation feature Comet in Moominland. The international version of the film features the voices of known Swedish actors like Stellan Skarsgård, Peter Stormare, Alexander Skarsgård. Musician and Moomins fan Björk also wrote an original song for the film. The international film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010. In Finland, it arrived in movie theaters on 6 August 2010 and was later broadcast on the MTV3 channel. The film was also produced in dozens of other languages and subsequently received global distribution. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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