Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy fri)

Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy fri) (2006)

  • 10% of critics liked it
    (10 reviews)

  • 55% of users liked it
    (5,888 ratings)

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. Jimmy is a performing elephant who travels with a third-rate Russian circus run by ringmaster Stromowski (voice of Jim Broadbent).… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Christopher Nielsen, Simon Pegg
Genres
Drama, Animation, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 21, 2006 Wide
Columbia TriStar

Critic Reviews

  • Derek Adams, Time Out

    This adult-orientated, computer-generated animation isn't an especially successful outing but still serves as an impressive antidote to the Disney-Pixar norm.

  • Leslie Felperin, Variety

    Pic could be too dark, dirty and insufficiently funny to achieve more than cult success.

  • Richard Luck, Film4

    Norway may be wonderful for many things but feature-length animation currently isn't one of them.

  • James Christopher, Times [UK]

    Deeply unhinged, deeply awful.

  • Xan Brooks, Guardian [UK]

    Free Jimmy is a sledgehammer Norwegian animation that metes out all manner of cruelty to dumb animals, not least the ones in the audience.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Alexander W


    CGI animted adult adult rated movie. The jokes are funny enough but with a sinister and often pointless punchline. The undertone of the movie is built up around drug use and trafficking, inside an Elephants tummy to say the least. I didnt watch this movie with much expectation and… More

  • Mike S


    Really weird and not my kind of movie at all, despite the fact that it has actors like Woody Harrelson and Kyle McLachlan doing the voice-overs. As for the many reasons of why I didn't like it, I'm not quite sure where to begin, but for one thing, the animation is pretty… More

  • Luke B


    A dark and tragic animated comedy. The bleak humour I found to be quite funny, and the whole grim outlook turns animatd films upside down. This is certainly part crime film, reminiscent of Lock,Stock...but with an elephant thrown in. The animation is beautiful, looking unlike… More

  • Barry L


    What in the hell was this?.,......absolute mince immafraid. I had hoped for much more mand was seriously dissappointed.....you might not be but then again.......................

  • Wu C


    Cool animation and interesting feel. Worth seeing once under the influence.

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