Romantic comedy throws a lot of awkward obstacles in the face of true love. Can two people find love on opposite sides of the country (Sleepless in Seattle)? Can love bloom in what starts as a financial transaction? (Pretty Woman) Or in this case - can love bloom when the guy is a whole lot shorter than the girl?
Yes, that does not seem like a particularly compelling concept. And when you consider Jean Dujardin is a regular-highted actor and therefore is only shrunken through special effects, meaning that he and Virginie Efira (as the girl) aren't able to touch particularly regularly (as everytime they do, it's an expensive effects shot), it's even further weakened. With all this obvious baggage on board, the rest of the film is pretty mild and charming in that not-trying-very-hard-French-way, and the story starts to be "can a woman fall in love if all her friends are horrible people". Dujardin's character is a pleasant charmer with not a lot of complications, Efira is a lovely lady with a dodgy ex-husband and a doepy secretary, and it's only very rarely that we get any suggestion that there's anything particularly holding them apart (a brief moment where seeing him in a mirror shows his i childlike proportions to Efira, which is momentarily a bit interesting, but then that's hurried away from again).
This isn't an utterly uncharming way to waste an hour and a half, but it is kinda pointless. It's not so much a "go see it" as "you don't have to run in the opposite direction if this is showing near you"
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