The animation was done by the French company BUF Compagnie, which hired approximately 100 animators, most of them from French animation schools and without any previous experience. Harvey Keitel as Miro, the royal advisor.Penny Balfour as Rosie Suchot, Arthur's mother.Snoop Dogg as Max, the leader of the Koolamassai, a race of beings similar to the Minimoys, who supply Maltazard's people with a 'candy fruit' and are therefore left relatively free.Adam LeFevre as Ernest Davido, a greedy landowner who presides over and founded the multi-national Davido Corporation, which specializes in property development.Robert De Niro as Emperor Sifrat XVI, Betameche and Selenia's father.Jason Bateman as Prince Darkos, Maltazard's vicious but dim-witted son.For the Japanese release, he is voiced by Gackt who is also a singer and actor. Although the film refers to him as Malthazar, his name in the book was Malthazard and some film versions refer to him as Maltazard. David Bowie as Emperor Maltazard (also known as the Evil M, Maltazard the Evil, or Malthazar the Cursed), antagonist.Ron Crawford as Archibald: Arthur's grandfather, known to the Minimoys as Archibald the Benevolent.Mia Farrow as Daisy, Arthur's long-suffering grandmother.Jimmy Fallon as Prince Betameche, Selenia's younger brother.The character was dubbed by French singer Mylène Farmer in the French version ' Arthur et les Minimoys', German singer Nena in the German version ' Arthur und die Minimoys' and Finnish Pop singer Paula Vesala from PMMP in the Finnish version. Madonna as Princess Selenia, the daughter of Emperor Sifrat.The film ends with Arthur asking Selenia to wait for his return, and her agreement to do so. Archibald pays Davido with one ruby and when he tries to take them all, the Bogo Matassalai capture him and give him to the authorities (scene deleted in the U.S. With the help of Mino, a royal advisor's long-lost son, Arthur redirects the flood to Necropolis whereupon Maltazard abandons Necropolis and his son, and the water ejects the rubies above ground. Thereafter Arthur and his grandfather escape and return to human form, with little time to spare before Maltazard's flood reaches the Minimoys. When Maltazard learns that she has already kissed Arthur and thus can no longer give him her powers and cure his corruption, he imprisons all three, who discover a Minimoy form of Archibald. In Necropolis, Selenia kisses Arthur, marking him as her husband and potential successor, and confronts Maltazard alone. En route, they are attacked on two occasions by Maltazard's soldiers. From the Minimoys, Arthur learns that they are in danger from Maltazard, a Minimoy war hero who now rules the nearby 'Necropolis', after corruption by a weevil, by whom he has a son named Darkos.Īrthur, reflecting his legendary British namesake, draws a sacred sword from its recess and uses it to protect the Minimoys from Maltazard's soldiers whereupon Sifrat, the ruler of the Minimoys, sends Arthur to Necropolis, with the princess Selenia and her brother Betameche. ![]() He is met in the garden by the Bogo Matassala, who reduce Arthur to Minimoy size. When Daisy receives a two-day deadline to pay a large sum of money to a building developer named Ernest Davido, who plans to evict the two, Arthur looks for the rubies to pay off the debt, and discovers various clues left by his grandfather. Arthur becomes enamoured of a picture of Selenia, the princess of the Minimoys. Daisy entertains Arthur with stories of his grandfather's adventures in Africa, featuring the tall Bogo Matassalai and the minuscule Minimoys, of whom the latter now live in Archibald's garden, protecting a collection of rubies. His grandfather Archibald has recently gone missing and he sees little of his parents. ![]() ![]() In the year 1960, protagonist Arthur lives with his grandmother Daisy in a quiet farm house.
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