![]() ![]() Neither is the slapstick, which is more juvenile and dumbed-down above anything else. Jimmy Fallon is a little better, less irritating than before, but he's still not very funny. The grandfather is also funny and endearing, and the duel on the toy train is exciting, that, the exhilarating final half-hour and Maltazard undergoing plastic surgery are the highlights of the film. It actually helps that Maltazard is better-utilised here. Lou Reed is so much better and more involved than in Revenge of Maltazard, there he sounded bored, here he sounded creepy if just lacking the suavity that David Bowie brought to the character in the first film. Freddie Highmore is still a very likable hero, while Mia Farrow is a compassionate grandmother figure and Selena Gomez is very charming as well as natural(Madonna in the first film to me was odd casting, and sounded too much like trying to sound young) and interacts very well with Highmore. ![]() Most of the acting and voice acting is fine as well. The music is rousing and beautiful, with bouncy rhythms and melodies that stick in your head. Sure, Maltazard's appearance is rather scary for youngsters but it was one of the film's cleverest touches. The animation is very good though, colourful and well-rendered, in fact the whole film does look lovely. This third and final film Arthur and the War of Two Worlds is an improvement on the second, but for this viewer was still left wanting. Revenge of Maltazard was rather messy, not really coming to life with poor humour and an ending that felt unfinished. The first film Arthur and the Invisibles wasn't that great(to me that is, you'll think differently), rather average with some good-animation, music and most acting and voices- and bad things like the story, pacing and some scripting, but it's still the best of the three. Not a terrible film by all means, kind of an entertaining if middling one.
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