Free Jimmy

The story's about the life of a junkie circus elephant and the filth of the human society who want to make money off him. The movie is quite sad and will bring out emotions in the viewer which are normally not... Full review

I got to see the British version of this film and yes it was very funny. Be warned though, due to the stereotype that obviously we London Cockney's have got is used to the full in this. The Facking (use a... Full review

The problem with modern animation is that the first observations from commentors seem to be about the quality of the animation. It distracts, at least when the film is big budget.The advantage of this sort of animation for me is... Full review

I would be wasting my time and breath on explaining the trouble with critic reviews. This film was described as "insufficiently funny" -- I am not sure why it is listed as a comedy, but it is certainly not one.... Full review

I have to admit I needed about 15 minutes to get used to the style of this animation. I like that for a change we get to see something different than your average Pixar happy ending movies (which is also nice,... Full review

I have to admit I needed about 15 minutes to get used to the style of this animation. I like that for a change we get to see something different than your average Pixar happy ending movies (which is also... Full review

I have not seen the English version of this movie, but the Norwegian one rocks. The maker of the movie is the brother of Jokke (Joachim Nielsen) Who was a famous Norwegian rock artist who died in 2000. The movie... Full review

Fredrik, dude, you are so wrong... Have you no sense of humor? Have we really seen the same film? I wonder...This is a fantastic movie in every respect. The animation is state of the art, the story is fun and... Full review

This sure is an odd piece of work. It's the best Norwegian animated feature since the extremely well made Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, but in the end it doesn't even reach up to the knees of the old classic. However, that's... Full review

Fritz the cat was one of the first 2D-animated cartoons for adults. Over twenty years later comes the first adult 3D-animated film. (For those of you who didn't already knew it, Nielsen is actually a big fan of Crumb)This is... Full review

The minute animation of such dark, dingy, miserable things is painful to sit through.... ... Full Review

The movie is disgusting which is simply the worst animated film ever It's boring and messily plotted, with no idea of its target audience, and the disastrous dialogue by Simon Pegg confuses foul language with humour. ... Full Review

Subject matter this dark requires an awful lot of humour to sweeten the medicine, yet the jokes just aren't here while the animation, at best satisfactory, is let down by an overuse of depressing colours. ... Full Review

Free Jimmy has had a painfully long gestation. By 2002 they were in a position to get voices, and the cast includes Woody Harrelson as the sleazy psychopathic lead character Roy, Phil Daniels as a spaced out paranoidal loser Gaz and Jim Broadbent as the drunk Russian ringmaster. ... Full Review

By turns idiotic and infantile, Free Jimmy proves just how hard it is to create 'dumb' comedy.....Then again, it might be entirely down to Free Jimmy's superficial resemblance to 'Spaced'..... ... Full Review

The Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) has granted a total of NOK 6.4m to five European co-productions. Those include the €4.8m animated UK film Chopin and Mama Gogo by veteran Icelandic filmmaker Fridrik Thor Fridriksson . ... Full Article

The Norwegian Film Institute has supported the project with $300,000 (NOK 2m). The two companies have previously collaborated on Norwegian director Christopher Nielsen's Free Jimmy ( Slipp Jimmy Fri ) and UK director Suzie Templeton's Peter & The Wolf ,... ... Full Article

This peculiar animated Norwegian-British co-production has a heroin-addicted circus elephant on the run from a gang of druggie crooks who know there's a stash of smack sewn under his hide. ... Full Article

The event, which takes place at a number of venues across the downtown core of the Nation's Capital, features numerous screenings, workshops, networking events along with the Animarket Trade and Recruiting Fair. ... Full Article

Dialogue never mentions where story takes place, but visual clues leave no doubt this is somewhere in Scandinavia, even if characters speak with a mishmash of British and American accents. ... Full Article

A drug-addled elephant is on the run from people who either want to help him or kill him in this dark computer-animated comedy that is decidedly not for children. ... Full Article