History WesternAnimation / AMonsterInParis

* AnimatedMusical: There are a number of songs throughout, mostly diegetic.

* CallBack: Émile [[spoiler:using an umbrella as a weapon against Maynott]] is a callback to his daydream at the start of the film]]. Additionally, what he says to Maynott when he turns the searchlight on ([["It's showtime!"]]), which he says this in his daydream when he fights the crocodile/dragon.

* CatScare: A small one in the scene introducing a monster. A husband and a wife are trying to retrieve the latter's pearls from her broken necklace when something small and quick skitters behind the woman and spooks her. It turns out to be an alley cat. But the cat hisses at something before running off, which is when the husband and wife see the monster.

* ChekhovsGag Raoul's straw coat, which he insists multiple times is ''not'' made of straw, is used [[spoiler:to shake off the police cars chasing him in the film's climax, attracting a hungry horse that ends up blocking the fleet's path]].
* ChekhovsGun:
** The sunflower seed Raoul pockets during his first trip to the lab [[spoiler:is used to save him and Lucille from falling to their death during the Eiffel Tower battle]].

* CompanionCube: Catherine to Raoul. She's a van, but one he loves dearly.

* CostumePorn: Francœur's stage outfit has multiple accessories.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Made up of the film's own ConceptArt and {{Storyboard}}s.

* DeadpanSnarker: Raoul has a quip for every occasion, to the point that him ''not'' making a quip [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness highlights just how serious the moment is]]. Lucille also has her moments, [[BelligerentSexualTension usually while snarking with Raoul]].
* DecoyProtagonist: Subverted. The focus on Raoul and Émile quickly switches to Lucille and Francœur, but about halfway through the movie the focus is on all four characters.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Played straight...but also subtly subverted. The movie is in fact about a monster in Paris, but [[spoiler:it can be argued that the ''real'' monster is [[ExactWords Maynott]], not Francœur]].
* TheFaceless: Raoul's professor friend is absent for most of the story, and though he finally appears at the end of the film, his face is never shown.

** Francœur witnessing [[spoiler: his arm hairs shrink]] tells the audience that [[spoiler:the Super Fertilizer's effects are starting to gradually wear off]].

* IndyPloy: Raoul pulls one during the climax by throwing away his straw coat to distract a horse and block off a fleet of police cars, activating and deactivating the flap on the back of his van to sail across the flooded Seine, and using the Super-Fertilizer and a sunflower seed to give Lucille and himself a safe landing when they're about to fall to their deaths. Additionally, Émile uses the Eiffel Tower's lighthouse to temporarily blind Maynott during their fight.

* TalkingAnimal: Charles is an interesting variation. He can't physically talk, but circumvents this by writing on cards to communicate. Likewise, Francœur is incapable of speech (unless he's singing).

* TitleDrop: Francœur's first song includes a bridge comprised entirely of the phrase "A Monster in Paris."

* {{Tsundere}}: Lucille has been this to Raoul since the first grade, teasing him because she wanted him to follow her. [[spoiler:She finally manages]]

* WhamLine: In-Universe for [[spoiler:Pâté]]. When Lucille tries to stop [[spoiler:Maynott from entering her dressing room by pulling a GoThroughMe, Maynott's response ("Don't tempt me!") leads to Pâté looking [[WhatTheHellHero visibly disturbed]].]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Played straight...but also subtly subverted. The movie is in fact about a monster in Paris, but [[spoiler:it can be argued that the ''real'' monster is Maynott, not Francœur]].

* VillainousBreakdown: While Maynott was clearly never a rational man to begin with, he gets increasingly more unhinged as the movie goes on, cultivating in him [[spoiler:wildly brandishing a firearm and [[LaughingMan laughing maniacally]] when he believes he's killed Francœur]].

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Averted in the first stinger, when [[spoiler: the heroes use the rapidly-growing dandelions to drain the overflowing river]].

* TheSpeechless: Francœur is incapable of speaking, communicating via chirps and clicking his pincers instead. However, he's able to form words if he sings them (though the set-up for "A Monster in Paris" (the song) implies he needs to hear music of any sort to be able to talk-sing).
* TheStinger: There's one mid-credits scene (see ReedRichardsIsUseless above) and another post-credits scene (showing the villain's final fate: [[spoiler:languishing in a jail cell alongside two horrible singers]]).

* TitleDrop: Francœur's first song includes a bridge comprised entirely of the phrase "A Monster in Paris".
* ToBeLawfulOrGood: [[spoiler:Pâté is confronted to this choice as he realizes that Maynott is a bastard and is completely losing his sanity. He chooses the second option.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Émile]], during the climax, becomes a lot braver and more capable than he at first seemed.

* {{Tsundere}}: Lucille has been this to Raoul since the first grade, teasing him because she wanted him to follow her. [[spoiler:She finally stops at the end.]]
* VocalDissonance: Francœur. Let's be honest, nobody expects a 7-foot-tall flea monster to have such a high-pitched voice.
* VillainousBreakdown: The more the climax progresses, the more it's obvious that [[spoiler:Maynott]] is getting completely ''off his gourd''.

* WhamLine: In-Universe for [[spoiler: Pate. When Lucille pulls a GoThroughMe, what is Maynott's response? "Don't.. tempt me!" Pate is [[WhatTheHellHero visibly disturbed]].]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Raoul can be irresponsible, rude, and overly confident to the point of arrogance, but when the chips are down he proves to be a loyal and compassionate friend.
%%* LaughingMad: Maynott becomes this during the climax.
* LastDayOfNormalcy: The first part shows the lives of Émile and Raoul, respectively a cinema operator and a delivery guy/inventor, until the accident that gives rise to Francœur, the star of the film. After that, we also see the life of the singer Lucille, who has a lot of stress because of her aunt Carlotta's pressuring her to accept the court of [[{{Jerkass}} Commissioner Maynott]] and also because they must find a new musician for the show. (She is actually more important for the plot than Raoul and Émile, because it's she whom interacts with Francœur the most and convinces the others to help save him from the police.)

** Maynott's signature outfit is a light brown suit, verging on yellow, and his presence is always indicated either by a spotlight, daylight, or a well-lit room. He's also a pompous psychopath.
** Contrasted with Francœur who must sneak about at night to avoid detection, wears a dark coat and hat as part of his disguise, and is quite possibly the kindest character in the film. DarkIsNotEvil indeed.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: [[spoiler:Lucille and Francœur]], according to WordOfGod. [[spoiler: They dance and sing together a lot, so one might assume this would be an InterspeciesRomance story, but it's pretty clear they don't see each other that way.]]

* LoveTriangle: Averted. Fans ''assumed'' this would be the case, partly thanks to some apparently unreliable English summaries.
* MadnessMantra: Lucille: "It's just a nightmare, I will wake up."
* MaleGaze: The necklace scene in the alleyway with the woman in the red coat. The camera notably lingers on her behind.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The American trailer for the movie led many to believe that Francœur and Lucille would end up romantically involved, a la ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', with Raoul playing the part of Gaston. Of course none of this is true.

* PaperThinDisguise: Francœur's [[CoatHatMask coat, hat, and mask]] magically trick people into thinking he's human, despite the fact that his blue face, [[SupernaturalGoldEyes huge yellow eyes]], and large ''pincers'' are still quite visible from under his small mask.
* PlotAllergy: Raoul's feather allergy gets him in trouble several times, particularly embarrassing Lucille while she's in her angel costume, and [[spoiler:triggering an IllTimedSneeze that almost causes him and Lucille to fall off the Eiffel Tower]].

** A couple enters a dark alley after watching a spectacle (Lucille's perfomance) and the wife's pearl necklace breaks, like [[{{Franchise/Batman}}in the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents]].

** Madame Carlotta's name can be a reference to ''The Phantom of the Opera''.
** Raoul has the same name as the VictoriousChildhoodFriend in ''The Phantom of the Opera''.

-->'''Émile:''' The smaller you are, the less people look at you. At... At least that's been my experience.

** At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:when Lucille is about to kiss Raoul and confesses she stole his toy car when they were children to entice him to come to her, he interrupts the romantic moment to ask if she still has the toy.]]
* TheSpeechless: Francœur, outside of the songs, is incapable of speaking and chirps (or sings basic sounds) instead, which makes him even cuter. The set-up for "A Monster in Paris" (the song) implies he needs to hear music of any sort to be able to talk/sing.
* TheStinger: There's one mid-credits scene (see ReedRichardsIsUseless above) and another post-credits scene (showing the villain's final fate).
* TalkingAnimal: Charles is an interesting variation. He ''can't'' talk, but circumvents this by writing on cards. And he must be writing ''really'' fast. (That or [[CrazyPrepared they were all written beforehand]].) Likewise, Francœur is incapable of speech (unless he's singing).
* TalkingWithSigns: Charles is trained to communicate through messages written out in cards.
* TitleDrop: Francœur's first song includes the lyric "A Monster in Paris".

* HeelFaceTurn: Pâté slowly comes to his senses and discovers Maynott's true nature during the film's climax. [[spoiler:He's eventually the one who arrests Maynott when the commissioner appears to have killed Francœur]].
* HeroesWantRedheads: Raoul has a big thing for Lucille, a stunning redhead.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The chief of police is clearly shown as a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] {{Jerkass}}, [[spoiler:and finally loses his sanity]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Pâté shows UndyingLoyalty towards Maynott, despite that his [[MeanBoss boss]] being [[ItsAllAboutMe arrogant, vapid and self-centered]]. [[spoiler:Towards the end, he gets better once he [[HeelFaceTurn comes to his senses]].]]
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Francœur and Lucille.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Raoul. In the English version one doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.
* ImagineSpot: Émile daydreams about dating Maud at the beginning of the movie.
* ImpendingDoomPOV: Parodied; when Lucille is reading the notice about the monster, it cuts to a POV of something creeping up behind her... which actually just turns out to be Raoul delivering champagne.

* InASingleBound: Francœur, which naturally leads to some pretty awesome RoofHopping. {{Justified|Trope}}, since he's a giant flea.
* IndyPloy: Raoul's schtick during the climax; throwing away his straw coat to distract a horse and block off a fleet of police cars, activating and deactivating the flap on the back of his van to sail across the flooded Seine, and using the Super-Fertilizer and a sunflower seed to give Lucille and himself a safe landing when they're about to fall to their deaths. Additionally, Émile uses the Eiffel Tower's lighthouse to temporarily blind Maynott during their fight.

* InstantExpert: Francœur learns to sing, dance and play guitar ''damn fast''. He's later seen ''writing a piano piece''!!!
* {{Jerkass}}: Albert, a pompous, untalented hack who later sells the protagonists out to Maynott.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Raoul is a fairly irresponsible, sometimes rude guy, but his charm and better qualities shine through.

* CostumePorn: Francœur and Lucille's stage outfits are ''nice''.

* CuteMonster: [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsenjtBUhI1qfhipjo1_500.jpg Francœur]] is absolutely ''adorable''.
* CuteMute: Francœur, he can only "speak" in chirps and bleeps, but nobody cares because of how ridiculously cute it is. Did we mention he can sing, too?
%%* DancePartyEnding
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Raoul. Lucille also has her moments.
* DecoyProtagonist: Subverted. The focus on Raoul and Émile quickly switches to be on Lucille and Francœur, but about halfway through the movie the focus is on all four characters.
* DisneyAcidSequence: The "La Seine" sequence becomes this about halfway through, with the two of them dancing on the rooftops of Paris and even on the Eiffel Tower, though we can assume this is not meant to be literally happening within the story.
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Francœur. They think he's dead but he actually shrank back down to normal size again.]]

* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: The audience has some idea that Francœur's not dead, the growth potion just wore off. But [[PlayedForDrama nobody, not even Lucille, knows that and thinks he's dead]].]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Played straight... but also subtly subverted. The movie is in fact about a monster in Paris, but [[spoiler:the ''real'' monster turns out to be Maynott, not Francœur]].
* TheFaceless: Raoul's professor friend, who is absent through most of the story, and when he appears at the end his face is never shown.

%%* FieryRedhead: Lucille.

** The newspaper seller nearly run over by Raoul at the start of the movie is shouting a headline about the "Commissioner's popularity at an all-time low". How does Maynott get his public approval rating back? [[spoiler:By publicly hunting down an enlarged flea who would never hurt anyone because it will make him look heroic to save Paris from the alleged monster.]]

** During Lucille's and Francœur's fantasy dance sequence, at one point he is peeking over the edge of the lighthouse cap. [[spoiler:This is his exact location Maynott attempts to kill him at the end of the movie. Doubles as a DarkReprise]].
* FourLegsGoodTwoLegsBetter: Francœur is bipedal despite the fact that fleas naturally walk on six legs. He still does have six limbs, but only two of them are used as legs.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During the scene where Victor Maynott and Inspector Pâté are talking with each other about the current flood and how to take care of it, all the while you can see Albert fruitlessly struggling to uncork the bottle of wine he's brought for the pair, from using his teeth to holding it with his feet, until finally he manages to get it off after the word "pop".

* GayParee: The film gets a lot of mileage out of that turn-of-the-century Parisian setting.
* GentleGiant: Francœur, very large and very kind.

** Lucille; her angel dress further accentuates them.

* HeelFaceTurn: Pâté slowly comes to his senses and realises Maynott's true nature during the film's climax. [[spoiler:He's eventually the one who arrests Maynott when the commissioner appears to have killed Francœur, reasoning the flea was innocent]].

''A Monster in Paris'' (''Un Monstre à Paris'') is a French animated film directed by [[WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado Eric "Bibo"]] [[WesternAnimation/SharkTale Bergeron]], with music by Matthieu Chedid, a.k.a. -M-, who's also Francœur's singing voice in French. Creator/VanessaParadis provided both the speaking and singing voices of Lucille.

During the Great Flood of 1910, Émile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colorful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a monster terrorizing the citizens of UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}. However, the monster takes refuge with a beautiful, kind-hearted singer named Lucille and is revealed to be actually quite harmless. Now all of them must continue to protect the monster, Francœur, from the chief of police who's out to kill him.

* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Charles, and Francœur to a much greater extent. They are, respectively, a monkey and a flea, but seem to be about as smart as all the human characters.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: [[spoiler: Maynott is defeated when he is apprehended by French police for Francœur's murder.]] This would not be a crime at all, unless Francœur was [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman legally recognized as a (human) person]]. Granted, it could that he was really being charged with [[spoiler:destroying the funicular and threatening to shoot Lucille, and the "murder of Francœur" charge was just one last dig at Maynott's douchiness.]]

** The pickpocket who tries to steal Émile's camera gets thoroughly (and unintentionally) beat up by Catherine as Raoul tinkers with her controls. Later he gets crushed by a sandbag (also launched in the air by Catherine), [[MakesSenseInContext beat up by an old woman]], and is finally arrested.
** Albert is a vain, whiney, and spiteful jerk who tries to sell out Lucille... This makes him being sent to jail quite satisfying.
* AxCrazy: Maynott becomes this in the climax, even wielding an axe as he becomes increasingly unhinged.
* BaitAndSwitch: When the husband who had a run-in with the monster reports to the police, one of them seems to be taking a facial composite of the monster in question. But when the police officer taking the statement asks "How's it going with that sketch?", it turns out his friend was actually drawing the husband.
* BatmanInMyBasement: Lucille hiding the monster in her dressing room.
* BeastAndBeauty: [[spoiler:A platonic example. Lucille and Francœur do not become romantically involved, but are really good friends and co-performers.]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Raoul towards Lucille. They're described as bickering non-stop since childhood. And even though they still do, it's obvious Raoul has a thing for her. [[spoiler:It's revealed that Lucille feels the same at the end.]]
* BespectacledCutie: Maude, a short, cute woman with big glasses
* BetaCouple: Émile and Maude, actually set up before Raoul and Lucille but with a lot less plot emphasis.

* CallBack:
** Émile [[spoiler:using an umbrella as a weapon against Maynott]] is a callback to his daydream at the start of the film.
** So is [[spoiler:what he says to Maynott when he turns the searchlight on: "It's showtime!"]] He says this in his daydream when he fights the crocodile/dragon.

* CatScare: A small one in the scene introducing a monster. A husband and a wife are trying to retrieve the latter's pearls from her broken necklace when something small and quick skitters behind the woman and spooks her! ...Turns out, it's just an alley cat. But then, the cat hisses at something before running off. And ''that's'' when the husband and wife see the monster!
* TheChanteuse: Lucille, a professional singer.

** [[ChekhovsGag Raoul's straw coat]] [[spoiler:is used to shake off the police cars chasing him in the film's climax, throwing it to a horse which blocks the fleet's path]].
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler:Victorious Raoul, who ends up with Lucille.]]
* CoatHatMask: Francœur, though he has to fit two arms in each sleeve, manages to get by with this outfit for much of the movie.

* CompanionCube: Catherine to Raoul. She's a van, but one he loves.

* HurricaneOfPuns: Raoul. In the English version one doubles as a ShoutOut to ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* IndyPloy: Raoul's schtick during the climax; throwing away his straw coat to distract a horse and block off a fleet of police cars, activating and deactivating the flap on the back of his van to sail across the flooded Seine, and using the Super-Fertilizer and a sunflower seed to give Lucille and himself a safe landing when they're about to fall to their deaths.
** Additionally, Émile uses the Eiffel Tower's lighthouse to temporarily blind Maynott during their fight.

* ChekhovsGun: The sunflower seed Raoul pockets during his first trip to the lab [[spoiler:is used to save him and Lucille from falling to their death during the Eiffel Tower battle]].
** Also, [[ChekhovsGag Raoul's straw coat]] [[spoiler:is used to shake off the police cars chasing him in the film's climax, throwing it to a horse which blocks the fleet's path]].

%%** Also, [[ChekhovsGag Raoul's coat]].

** Francœur witnessing [[spoiler: his arm hairs shrink]] tells the audience that [[spoiler: the growth potion is starting to gradually wear off]].

%%* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Pâté.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Raoul and Émile seem to be this. Both colleagues and best friends, they're rarely apart

%%* IndyPloy: Raoul's schtick during the climax.

* TheEdwardianEra: The film is set in 1910

* PlotAllergy: Raoul's feather allergy gets him in trouble several times, particularly embarrassing Lucille while she's in her angel costume, and [[spoiler:triggering a SneezeOfDoom that almost causes him and Lucille to fall off the Eiffel Tower]].

* NiceHat: Francœur wears a broad-brimmed fedora in many of his scenes.

* LastDayOfNormalcy: The first part shows the lives of Emile and Raoul, respectively a cinema operator and a delivery guy/inventor, until the accident that gives rise to Francoeur, the star of the film. After that, we also see the life of the singer Lucille, who has a lot of stress because of her aunt Carlotta's pressuring her to accept the court of [[{{Jerkass}} Commissioner Maynott]] and also because they must find a new musician for the show. (She is actually more important for the plot than Raoul and Emile, because it's she whom interacts with Francoeur the most and convinces the others to help save him from the police.)

** A couple enters a dark alley after watching a spectacle (Lucille's perfomance) and the wife's pearl necklace breaks, much like [[{{Franchise/Batman}} the way Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered]].

** A couple enters a dark alley after watching a spectacle (Lucille's perfomance) and the wife's pearl necklace breaks; that's more than evocative of [[Franchise/Batman the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents]].

** Francœur's "monster" outfit makes him look like Radio/TheShadow.

* {{Fainting}}: Lucille does the "Monster" fainting variation when she first sees Francœur.

* TouchOfTheMonster: Lucille faints at the first sight of Francœur. He catches her and cradles her, and the position they end up in is evocative of old pulp magazine covers, specifically the Rape of the Sabine Women variation. The big difference is, of course, that Francœur means Lucille no harm at all.

* {{Meganekko}}: Maude, a short, cute woman with big glasses

* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: The audience has some idea that Francoeur's not dead, the growth potion just wore off. But [[PlayedForDrama nobody, not even Lucille, knows that and thinks he's dead]].]]

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Charles, a proboscis monkey, is a major character throughout the film.

** Francœur's "monster" outfit makes him look like Literature/TheShadow.

** In the movie, Maynott intends to become mayor of Paris. In RealLife, that function ''didn't exist'' at the time (the equivalent was "Prefect of the Seine").