Minimoys and Decoys Trivia Quiz

Answer:

Arthur is your not-so-average 10-year-old living with his grandmother Daisy, ready to experience some adventure but not seeing any of it. His grandpa Archibald - an adventurer himself - has gone missing some time ago. Daisy regularly tells Arthur about his grandfather's adventures, which involve a tall African tribe and minuscule humanoids called the Minimoys.

The Minimoys actually live in Archibald's garden. Ruled by their Emperor Sifrat XVI, they possess a treasure of rubies, but are in danger of being overwhelmed by another similarly tiny tribe.

Arthur is reduced to the size of the Minimoys and, true to his name, begins his adventure by pulling a sword from a stone. This inspires Sifrat to charge Arthur with a rescue mission, sending his two children - princess Selenia and prince Betamache with him. No pressure, I suppose.

Arthur and his adventure companions encounter another miniature race, the Koolamassai, led by Max, in a somewhat filthy city built, amongst other things of human garbage.

Finally, they enter Necropolis to confront Maltazard, a corrupted former Minimoy and his son Darkos, who is not very intelligent to put it mildly - but just that much more cruel. There, they get captured, only to find Arthur's grandfather in prison as well. Arthur and Archibald escape and manage to flood Maltazard's Necropolis, recovering the ruby trove in the process as well.

Miro - the only character not yet mentioned in this brief synopsis of the first movie - is an Imperial advisor to Sifrat XVI.

The second and third movie form one plot arc (with a cliffhanger) involving Maltazard entering the human world.

Director (and author of the underlying novels) Luc Besson made a visual distinction between the human world and the Minimoy realms by mixing real-life acting with 3-D animation. Everything that takes place in our own world is filmed normally while the Minimoy scenes are animated. Characters flipping between worlds (mostly Arthur and Archibald) are shown in both forms.

The voice cast for the English language version of the movies includes top stars - David Bowie (Maltazard), Madonna (Selenia), Jimmy Fallon (Betameche), Robert De Niro (Sifrat), Jason Bateman (Darkos) and Snoop Dogg (Max) all grace the cast list.

Luc Besson later revisited the "Arthur" universe with a fourth movie, but unlike the first three, it was not a children's fantasy story but rather a horror film, which was shunned by critics and audiences alike.

The wrong answers are all characters from "The Neverending Story", a 1984 Wolfgang Petersen film based on the novel by Michael Ende. In this case, it is Bastian who enters and ultimately saves the parallel world, named Fantasia (or Fantastica in the book).