In 1960, protagonist 10-year-old Arthur lives with his grandmother Daisy in a quiet farm house on a dirt road, in a small rural community in Northeastern Connecticut (based on Sterling). The movie's soundtrack album was released on 9 January 2007. The film received the Imagina Award in the category Prix du Long-Métrage.
It was nevertheless successful enough in France and in the rest of the world to have two sequels, Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard and Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds. The film received negative reviews from critics, who criticized the animation and script, while praising the performances (particularly the voice acting) and visual aspects, and under-performed in the United States. With a budget of €60 million, Arthur and the Minimoys was briefly the most expensive French film production until surpassed by Astérix at the Olympic Games. It premiered in limited release in France on 29 November 2006, and received wide releases in a number of countries in the following weeks. Arthur and the Invisibles or Arthur and the Minimoys (French: Arthur et les Minimoys) is a 2006 English-language French fantasy animated/live-action film directed and co-written by French filmmaker Luc Besson, based on his children's books Arthur and the Minimoys and Arthur and the Forbidden City.