1.   A few other supporting performances add comic spark to a movie that otherwise seems happily, deliberately second-rate, as if its ideal audience consisted of weary airline passengers.

2.   But in Amelie herself, Jeunet and Tautou have created a character whose tricky psychological undercurrents defy the vibrant superficiality the movie otherwise glorifies.

3.   But the movie otherwise does its job.

4.   Rick Bray was annoyed how often offensive language tainted movies that otherwise would be fine for his preteen children.