It comes as no surprise to learn that an unusual (in modern terms) amount of it was filmed on set rather than digitally created. A more febrile and endearing mass of nerves, loyalty and pin love I shall surely never meet.įrom the giant golem that imprisons and protects von Lipwig to the tiny clay-coloured beetles that infest the postmaster's long-abandoned desk, every scene is bursting with lovingly realised detail. Ian Bonar deserves a special award for his turn as pin aficionado – or "pinhead" – Stanley Howler. The streets are lined with fantastical, tottering buildings that seem almost-but-not-quite to deny the laws of physics, and every performance seems to cleave to the same principle – climbing vertiginously but never quite going too far and overbalancing. It's all boundlessly clever, joyful and exuberant.
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