"It's plastic, but it's real plastic. A Town Called Panic is a riot"

"Wacky, demented, and nonviolent, A Town Called Panic really is a film for all ages."

"When was the last time you saw a motion picture to which you could invite your five-year-old nephew and André Breton in the expectation that both parties would be equally pleased?"

"uninhibited goofiness will leave its mark — not to mention a grin on your face — for days to come"

" breathless thrill to watch. Countless jokes and other little sight gags zip past at an incredible rate, and Aubier and Patar are clearly filmmakers whose bodies can only barely keep pace with how quickly their minds are generating ideas. It’s a miracle that so many of them can fit inside such a small town."

"a film thoroughly infused with childlike energy and imagination, and capable of producing childlike joy."

"This is the silliest piece of stop-motion animated nonsense to be shown ever at a theatre this or any year. But this is not necessarily a bad thing – if you love hilarity like that takes you to new heights of absurdity."

"Surreal and hilarious"

"the perfect antidote to people who are tired of watching computerized cartoons."

Interview: Directors shopped at toy store

"The narrative crudeness is matched by the animation, a clunky-on-purpose madhouse of tippy movement that is persuasively unconvincing. It's plastic, but it's real plastic. A Town Called Panic is a riot. Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/movies/story.html?id=2585592#ixzz0g106awVq The National Post is now on Facebook. Join our fan community today."

"many choice moments of frantic fun and gleeful absurdity."

"Watching A Town Called Panic is like burrowing into a small child’s head as he amuses himself with a bucket of forgotten toys. I mean that in the best possible way."

"Learning French has never been this funny."

"its unconventional charm lies not in the big picture, but the details"

"Sitting through A Town Called Panic is like watching someone on LSD play with a bucket of toys for 75 minutes."

Q&A: Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar of A Town Called Panic

"Stop-motion tale strangely compelling"

"PANIQUE AU VILLAGE has to be seen to be believed, imagination gone totally out of control, but in the most delectable way!"

"but in the end I had a lot of fun which is all I ever want from an animated comedy about indians and cowboys. And, my God, I loved that loud-mouthed farmer."

"Belgian film offers a flurry of insanity"

Interview with filmmakers "For us, the main thing was that we were having fun and found the story funny, said Aubier, If we were amused, chances are other people would be too."

"Aubier and Patar's A Town Called Panic is an object lesson in how to put together a hilariously bizarre comedy on a shoestring budget. It gets a 5/5"

"A Town Called Panic shines in the details"

"A dubbed English version is inevitably on the way. But this subtitled version is the one to take your kids to. Learning French has never been this funny."

"A Town Called Panic is finally receiving the critical attention that it deserves, and a stateside release of the feature is sure to please younger viewers who enjoy a nice bit of silliness."

Interview: "For us, the main thing was that we were having fun and found the story funny,” said Aubier, “If we were amused, chances are other people would be too.”

Interview: Popeye, Coen Brothers inspired Belgian filmmakers in A Town Called Panic

"...its unconventional charm lies not in the big picture, but the details creators Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar developed"

"wildly imaginative, wickedly funny and totally out there"

"spontaneity rules. If anything, it's as if the filmmakers' labor-intensive technique has served only to keep their frivolity (barely) contained. Panic really can be reduced to child's play, apparently, and that makes it seem like a place worth visiting."

“A Town Called Panic” is an adventure story as fast-paced and exciting as any currently in theaters. The fact that it stars a dashing plastic horse and his excitable wards, a plastic cowboy and Indian, only makes it that much better."

"a wonderfully loopy stop-motion film that captures the many exploits of three plastic housemates: Horse, Cowboy, and Indian."

"Stop-motion animation: from the gothic spookiness of Coraline to the cool countrified hipness of Fantastic Mr. Fox to the surreal irrationality of the Belgian cult film A Town Called Panic (which showed at the Cannes Film Festival), the persnickety technique came into its own as a tool of artistic brilliance."