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Watch: Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jim Knopf and Luke the Engine Driver embark on an adventurous journey through fantastic worlds to free the kidnapped Princess Li Si from the impenetrable Dragon City and solve the secret of Jim’s mysterious origins..
Plot: A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where Jim came from. Battling pirates and dragons, outsmarting make-believe giants, they must travel through the Forest of a Thousand Wonders, beyond the End of the World to find the hidden Dragon City.
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Excellent live-action remake of a famous German children’s serial
This live-action fantasy film is based on the 1960 children’s novel of the same name, which was the first published work of Michael Ende. Internationally, Ende is best know for the book on which Die unendliche Geschichte (1984) was based, although Ende himself didn’t like that film. But in Germany, Jim Button is better known than the Neverending Story.

Ende’s excellent book won the German Youth Literature Award, but part of the book’s success is owed to two adaptations for television by Augsburger Puppenkiste, a marionette theater. The first, Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (1961), consisted of 5 half-hour episodes in black and white. The color remake, Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer (1977), was shortened to 4 slightly shorter episodes. Regular re-runs of the serial ensured that generations grew up with it, and generations looked forward to passing on the joy of watching the serial to their children, often rewatching it on the occasion. Special cross-over episodes combining Jim Knopf and his friends with other Augsburger Puppenkiste stars were long an important staple of German TV’s Christmas Eve programming. But an even more obvious indication of the production’s popularity is probably the fact that a remix of the title song (the Lummerland Song “Eine Insel mit zwei Bergen” — “An Island with Two Mountains”) by Dancefloor project Dolls United was in the German charts for 33 weeks in 1995/96, reaching second position at some point. I am not sure they made the song more popular; they just gave people an excuse to play it outside its original context.

It was always obvious that any new adaptation would be received as a remake of the classic marionette version, and so would be held to the highest standards in terms of narrative charm. Failure was almost guaranteed, but in the end they did pull it off. Compared to the 2 hour color serial, some cuts were required, but the result is still a complete, coherent story with all the important highlights intact. And most importantly: The film’s visual quality is just stunning. It cannot have been easy to accurately reproduce so many of the marionette serial’ shots by means of special effects that hit the sweet spot between realism and overt but seamless artificiality. The casting and acting is also excellent. The actors seem aware at all times that they are replacements for marionettes, acting naturally with just a hint of woodenness.

A few words on the plot / the underlying book: Michael Ende famously wrote its beginning with no idea where it would lead him. So he started with a tiny island in the sea with two mountains, a castle, two houses, and a tiny railway system. It has a king and three subjects, including the shopkeeper and Luke, the train driver. When Ende wrote about the surprise delivery of a large parcel, he himself did not know what it would contain. Similarly, much later Jim, Luke and steam engine Emma find themselves in mortal danger n an extremely dark and cold place. Here again, Ende wrote down the problem before spending weeks in search of a solution.

The film is targeted to children and to adults who grew up with the underlying book and TV serial. But the plot’s highly original blend of fantasy and fairy tale, combined with the stunning visuals and high production values, makes the film well worth watching for a more general audience. Just not suitable for those who feel they must constantly prove they are adults and run screaming out the cinema when the film opens with the description of Morrowland — a tiny fantasy island in the sea that only makes sense as a model railway landscape.

Badly aged story in a remake showing all its flaws
The movie itself as a piece cinematography is beautiful.

This is where the good part ends, because Michael Ende’s story has too many flaws from a mind with a narrow imagination. This is a remake from a puppet show, that should have never been made. Prize winner many years ago or not, his stories are aging very badly.

After seeing the actually very faithful remake of Jim Button (Jim Knopf, an black orphan infant left on a small island in a basket) as a life action movie, the generally fondly remembered and beloved German “Augsburer Puppenkiste” puppet performance on TV from the early 70s was far superior.

It turns out, in a puppet theatre, so much was left to the viewer’s imagination, one did not always imagine the scene as it was actually written. The author Michael Ende was of a strange mind, and his ideas directly transcribed, turned out to be extremely insulting and xenophobic, whether he had intended so or not. With his background of being from a family pursued by the 3rd Reich themselves, this is all puzzling, but also needs to be seen as a sign of cultural isolation and a certain “innocence” when dealing with people of other skin colour and appearance. Whether it is the now frowned upon use of the word “n*gro”, or depicting a particular Chinese family as being the size of little dolls, the whole story of Jim Button (the black baby found in a basket, who is then raised by the handful of people on the small island, and who becomes friend and apprentice of Lucas, the locomotive engineer) manages to step into one faux-pas after another.

The whole movie is indeed just like the puppet theatre show, but everything now being put fully on screen, with little left to imagine, the full onslaught of anachronistic views is embarrassing.

I have that DVD in my shelf, and I ended up cringing through it all in pain, just to finish it.

Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 12500000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Action, Adventure, Family
Director Dennis Gansel
Writer Dirk Ahner, Andrew Birkin, Michael Ende
Actors Michael Herbig, Christoph Maria Herbst, Rick Kavanian
Country Germany
Awards 2 wins & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

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Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Mini, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Arri Alexa XT Plus, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses
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Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)