The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

In Paris, c. 1912, the scientist Professor Marie-Joseph Espérandieu is experimenting with telepathic techniques and unintentionally hatches a 135-million-year-old pterosaur egg within the National Museum of Natural History. This results in the death of a former prefect, who was sharing a taxicab with a Moulin Rouge showgirl, witnessed only by a drunken passerby named Ferdinand Choupard. Panic spreads as sightings of the creature multiply, and the President of France orders the case to be handled by the highly decorated but bumbling Inspector Albert Caponi. Meanwhile, Adèle Blanc-Sec, a famous journalist and travel writer, is in Egypt searching for the mummy of Patmosis, the physician to Pharaoh Ramesses II. She intends to revive him using Espérandieu's techniques so he can save her sister Agathe, who has been comatose for five years following a freak tennis accident involving a hatpin. After a brief struggle with her nemesis, the mysterious Professor Dieuleveult, she retrieves the mummy and returns home. Her mission is complicated by Espérandieu being on death row, having been blamed for the pterosaur attacks after the creature was found in his apartment. Adèle, with the help of Andrej Zborowski, a young researcher at the Jardin des Plantes who is enamored with her, lures the pterosaur into hiding. She then rides the creature to rescue Espérandieu moments before his execution. However, celebrity big game hunter Justin de Saint-Hubert shoots the pterosaur, and the wound is simultaneously felt by Espérandieu due to their psychic link. The wound is fatal to the creature, but Espérandieu, with his dying breath, completes the resurrection ritual. The mummy awakens but reveals himself to be Semothep, the Pharaoh's nuclear physicist, not a physician. Unable to help Agathe medically, he accompanies Adèle to the Louvre, where the rest of the Pharaoh's mummified court, including Ramesses II and his personal doctor Patmosis, are on display. Adèle convinces the Pharaoh to revive the court, and Patmosis uses advanced medical techniques to cure Agathe. The Pharaoh then decides to explore Paris with his entire court, wandering out into the night and terrifying the hapless Choupard once again. Adèle decides she needs a vacation. As she boards a ship to relax, its name is revealed: the RMS Titanic. Dieuleveult is shown observing her from a distance, sarcastically wishing her a "good journey." In a mid-credits scene, Ménard, a botanist, pursues Saint-Hubert with a rifle, outraged that he shot the pterosaur. Ménard is arrested by Caponi as two gorillas stare menacingly at Saint-Hubert.

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