Boxoffice Magazine by Pam Grady

Like "Amelie," Micmacs is visually dazzling, the ravishing images coming courtesy of "La Vie en Rose" cinematographer, Tetsuo Nagata.

Tampa Bay Times by Steve Persall

Quirky to the brink of exhaustion, the latest from Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a live-action Looney Tune complete with Acme contraptions and wily coyotes.

NPR by Mark Jenkins

Like "The Big Sleep," Micmacs tells a tangled story that may be just too much for some viewers. But the film moves nimbly, has an exuberant sense of style and is leavened by comic asides, many of them strictly visual. (The movie would be plenty of fun even without the subtitles.)

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

At its best, Micmacs is a robust, enjoyably lunatic game. It's social commentary by way of a good Looney Tune.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Jeunet maintains a firm control of his dreamscape creation, drawing on influences as varied as "Toy Story," "Children of Paradise," and TV's "Mission: Impossible."

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

The best part is that, amid all the hubbub, Jeunet, improbably and inevitably, draws out a love story between Bazil and Elastic Girl. Without it, Micmacs would have imploded. The romance, which is funny and sexy at the same time, anchors the shenanigans.

Variety

Turning the volume of his slapstick surreality down from 11 to 10, Gallic auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amelie") hits the sweet spot with Micmacs.

Variety by Rob Nelson

Turning the volume of his slapstick surreality down from 11 to 10, Gallic auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amelie") hits the sweet spot with Micmacs.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Micmacs is an inventive romp punctuated by the kind of quirkiness Jeunet has brought to all his films.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the French di rector of "Amelie," is back to more lighthearted whimsy with the delightful Micmacs.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey

Spiced with melancholy and magic, Micmacs is an imaginative live-action film with the playfulness of an animation like "Ratatouille." Similarly, it is a fable of subterraneans who change how life is lived above ground in a Paris that is both retro and modern.

Village Voice

Micmacs is more fantasia than violent revenge tale. And its pleasing curlicues--like a bouquet of spoons--linger long after the predictable outcome.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

Another beguiling if draining fantasia from Jean-Pierre Jeuet that harkens back to silent movies.

Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek

Nearly everyone, and everything, in Micmacs is at one point or another guilty of trying too hard.

Empire by Dan Jolin

Jeunet himself describes the film best: Delicatessen meets Amélie. But we'd add that, while it's certainly breezy fun, it's not quite as good as either.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

The sequences in Micmacs are contorted too: impressive and bendy and aggressively shallow.