What can I say? This Méliès short is just another one of his magic movies. In this one he plays (yet again) a magician who makes his assistant, dressed like a toreador, appear and disappear for about two minutes. It appears Méliès was into dissolves at this point in his career, because many of the tricks here are done in this manner (and "The Untamable Whiskers" came out the same year). The thing is, the majority of these dissolves look a little sloppily done and the film just doesn't feel very new. But, it's not off-putting and Méliès is as always energetic and keeps you entertained.
Review of The Fugitive Apparitions
