Too grisly for kids, or at least their ticket-buying parents. At the same time, the bouncy musical numbers with their contorted rhymes are unlikely to be embraced by any self-respecting Goth teen.

The animation is great, in its stark, mostly monochromatic way, but the music merely serviceable.

The ever-diverse Patrice Leconte has made an original, darkly humorous animation about a store assisting suicidals.

After the success of the irreverent The Book of Mormon, this would be a natural for the stage-Broadway would be so lucky.