Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure
Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure | |
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Directed by | Olivier Jean-Marie |
Written by | Olivier Jean-Marie Jean-François Henry |
Produced by | Marc du Pontavice |
Starring | Lambert Wilson Clovis Cornillac |
Edited by | Patrick Ducruet |
Music by | Hervé Lavendier |
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Distributed by | Alliance Vivafilm |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | France |
Languages | English French |
Budget | €15 million |
Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure (French: Tous à l'Ouest: Une Aventure de Lucky Luke) is a 2007 French animated western action-adventure comedy film directed by Olivier Jean-Marie and written by Marie and Jean-François Henry. Based on the Franco-Belgian comic series of the same name, the film was produced by Xilam, France 3 Cinéma, Pathé, Dargaud Média and Lucky Comics, and was released theatrically in France by Alliance Vivafilm on December 5, 2007.
Plot
In New York City 1880, the Dalton brothers (Joe, Jack, William and Averell) escape from a court trial regarding the Daltons' bank salesman cousin disgracing their name and plunder several banks across New York while Lucky Luke goes and hunts for them. Upon placing their loot of stolen cash in an empty wagon at Central Park, New York and attempting to blend in with the crowd in order to avoid detection from the police, Averell unwittingly blows their cover in front of the police, resulting in a long police chase across New York.
After evading the police, the Daltons return to Central Park to retrieve their loot only to find more wagons with immigrants who are going to California. Lucky Luke then arrives to stop the Daltons when one of the Europeans of the caravan exposes their problem to them: they have 80 days to go to California and to take possession of their land if not the developer, a crook named Crook having put 12 caravans in danger so that they do not arrive in California with his partner Bartleby, keeps the money paid in advance without the sale being made. With that in mind, Lucky Luke wants to take the safe route to California, but since the immigrants got 80 days to get there and the safe route would take about 6 months he decides to take them through the unsafe route.
Among the other immigrants headed for California include a Chinese chef couple, a teacher with unruly children named Miss Littletown, a trash-talking driver for a pack of mules that transport the Daltons, a barber, etc. Along the way, Crook and Bartleby sow traps to prevent the caravan from going to California, but to no avail. Later, Lucky Luke and the caravans stop at a small town called Hole Gutch where they pick up some new immigrants who also want to go to California.
When they arrive in California they take possession of their land and Crook is captured. Meanwhile, the Daltons flee with their stock found by Averell and hidden in their balls in an abandoned gold mine. A chase follows in the form of a roller coaster between the settlers who were promised money and the Daltons. Finally, all of them leave the mine, the Daltons are defeated and a mega explosion caused by a dynamite of Crook reported by Rantanplan allows the settlers to discover gold under the sold lands. The film ends with the Daltons, Crook and Bartleby being tied up and sent to justice by Lucky Luke into the sunset.
Cast
French voices
- Lambert Wilson : Lucky Luke
- Clovis Cornillac : Joe Dalton
- Alexis Tomassian : William Dalton
- Christophe Lemoine : Jack Dalton
- Bernard Alane : Averell Dalton
- François Morel : Rantanplan
- Edgar Givry : Edgar Crook
- Michael Lonsdale : Harold Bartleby
- Éric Metayer : Piotr / Monsieur Tang
- Dee Dee Bridgewater : Molly
- Jean Piat : Spike Goodfellow, le croque-mort
- Titoff : Monsieur Pierre
- Dorothée Pousséo : Miss Littletown, l'institutrice
- François Siener : Ugly Barrow
- Marie Vincent : Louise, la jument
- Adrien Antoine : Jolly Jumper
- Jacques Frantz : Loup cinglé
- Pierre Baton : Old Timer
- Yves-Robert Viala : le policier à New-York
- Jacques Obadia : le directeur du cirque
- Marc Alfos : le costaud du Saloon
- Saïd Amadis : l'avocat de l'accusation
- Julien Chatelet : Morris / Goscinny / un pionnier
- Michel Vigné : le barman / le shérif
- Jean-Marc Pannetier : le caissier de la banque
- Luc Boulad : Vrai Faucon
- Sylvain Corthay : le juge
Québéc voices
- Stéphane Rousseau : Lucky Luke
- André Ducharme : Joe/Jolly Jumper
- Éveline Gélinas : Miss Littletown
- Violette Chauveau : Louise
- Philippe Martin : Monsieur Pierre
- Yves Pelletier : Jack/Piotr/Rantanplan/Monsieur Tang
- Bruno Landry : Averell/Barrow/Loup Cinglé
- Guy A. Lepage : William/Crook
- Bernard Fortin : Bartleby
English voices
- Jeff Glen Bennett : Lucky Luke
External links
- 2007 films
- French-language films
- 2007 animated films
- French films
- French animated films
- French children's films
- French comedy films
- French adventure films
- Animated comedy films
- Lucky Luke films
- Children's animated films
- Children's comedy films
- Films produced by Marc du Pontavice
- Xilam
- Pathé films
- Films featuring anthropomorphic characters
- French Western (genre) films
- 2000s Western (genre) films
- 2000s road movies
- 2000s action films
- 2000s chase films
- Animated films based on comics
- Weird West
- Films set in 1880
- Films set in New York City
- Treasure hunt films
- Slapstick films