The frenetic scenarios should play fairly well as energizing for kids and ridiculous for adults.

A very small amount of this would be funny. But here, there's 77 minutes of it. And that's about 76 minutes and 30 seconds too much to stomach in one sitting.

Bounces around with a hyperactive dementia that somehow never flags.

According to Indiewire, A Town Called Panic is "the first full-length stop-motion animation to screen at Cannes." If the film's figures are cruder than those of Fantastic Mr. Fox, it's just as enjoyable, if more anarchically silly.