Monsieur Non? Oui!
Eee, when I were a lad, Mr Men books only went up to number 39, Mr Slow. Take a peek at the back cover of any recently published tome in the series however, and there are apparently 46. The reason for this being creator Roger Hargreaves passed on in 1988, after which son Adam carried on the good, lucrative work; fair enough, but the last, and definitely least entry in the series (Mr Good, a halfhearted featureless white body with a crap green hat) is not kidding anyone that he’s a real Mr Man (if such a measure of ‘Mr Manliness’ can be made, and I believe it can).
However, there were 2 books in the series not even published in English. I know, I was amazed too.
Mr Crosspatch (or ‘Monsieur Bagarreur’) is just a fucked up perversion of all-time MM icon Mr Bump, so we’ll gloss over that. This is the guy who’s rocking my world: Mr No, or far more charmingly, Monsieur Non.
NO.
Now there’s someone for the kids to look up to - a bastard Frenchman who embodies negativity to such a degree all he just says no to the damn lot of it.
A new hero is born. A $200m Hollywood reimagining in which Monsieur Non is transplanted to LA and is helped by humble bistro-waitress Kirsten Dunst to get back in touch with his positive attitude surely beckons.
