The film's style is inseparable from its overall achievement, which is to create a sense of nostalgia for a fairy tale pre-war Europe that never really existed except in the films of Ernst Lubitsch, lending a touch of gravity (not much but enough) to what is otherwise a delightfully silly movie. (Probably its closest cousin in terms of tone would be Fantastic Mr. Fox in which the villains are very, very bad people to the point of self-parody.)Quoting D_Davis (view post)