History WesternAnimation / JackAndTheCuckooClockHeart

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* AnimatedMusical: The movie is an animated version of the book ''Literature/TheBoyWithTheCuckoo-ClockHeart'' and a concept album by Dionysus based on said book.

* AnimatedMusical: The movie is an animated version of the book ''The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart'' and a concept album by Dionysus based on said book.

* BadassBaritone: Joe has a deep, threatening voice that only makes him seem more dangerous. Then again, he's played by Grand Corps Malade.

* UncannyValley: Invoked, as the artstyle of the film is purposely very surreal. While the environments are absolutely breathtaking, the human designs themselves can land very deep in the valley. Near the beginning of the movie we see a sequence of baby Jack moving like clockwork while adjusting to his new heart that might make your skin crawl. Then there's the the circus performers: a small man with a huge head and a coat pulled up to his nose, what seems to be a face without limbs, a girl with a balloon for a head, and a man with a large head and a tiny body that plays a trumpet.

* BadassLongCoat: Jack's costume as the 'King of the Ghost Train' has one. Complete with a CoolHat.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: During a scene in which Jack allows Miss Acacia to wind up his heart, his reaction implies pain is the opposite of how he's feeling.
-->'''Acacia:''' If it hurts, tell me wont you?
-->'''Jack:''' (breathless) 'Hurt' is not the word I'd use.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** "Flames With Glasses" is filled with sexual references. Jack telling Acacia about his desire to strip her clothes and molest and have sex with her, at the end of the song, ice cream grows on her breasts, thereby justifying his aim is groping her and licking her nipples. None of them are subtle at all.
** You can argue that Jack has some {{Yandere}} tendencies, like Joe, in his stalking of Acacia.
** Jack being caught sneaking into Acacia's dressing room/gypsy caravan. She actually sees him and grows her vines.
** George and the Siamese twins clearly have something going on.
** Jack meeting Jack the Ripper. Why else would there be a notorious murderer for any reason other than sneaking by the radar?

* AnimatedMusical
* BetaCouple: Between Méliès and a pair of conjoined twins in Andalucia.
* BadassBaritone: Joe. Then again, he's played by Grand Corps Malade.
* BadassLongCoat: Jack as the 'King of the Ghost Train.' Complete with a CoolHat.

* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:In the ending. Complete with victorious music and a spinning camera.]]

* BlindWithoutEm: Miss Acacia claims she can barely see even ''with'' her glasses. (Though when we see for a moment from her perspective, she seems to be able to see fine when she puts them on.)

* FakeNationality Jack is a [[FakeScot Scot with a British accent]] and Acacia is a Spaniard with a British accent.

* GadgeteerGenius: In the past, Méliès spent a lot of time inventing gadgets in order to impress a girl he loved. He still likes to tinker with things, inventing such things as a [[ImpossiblyCompactFolding performing stage that can fold up into something the size of a suitcase]].

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/GeorgesMelies.

* PimpedOutDress: Miss Acacia's. And ''how''.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: Miss Acacia.

* FlowerInHerHair: As a child, Miss Acacia wears a single rose in her hair. Years later, as a flamenco singer, she wears several in a complex bun.