Micmacs is more fantasia than violent revenge tale. And its pleasing curlicues--like a bouquet of spoons--linger long after the predictable outcome.
Micmacs(Micmacs à tire-larigot)
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France · 2009
Rated R · 1h 40m
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring Dany Boon, Dominique Pinon, André Dussollier, Jean-Pierre Marielle
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime
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First, his father was killed by a land mine; then, he lost his job after an errant bullet shot him. Now Bazil lives on the streets of Paris, where he encounters other outcasts who help him exact revenge on the weapons manufacturers that took everything from him.
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What are critics saying?
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.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
Micmacs is an inventive romp punctuated by the kind of quirkiness Jeunet has brought to all his films.
The sequences in Micmacs are contorted too: impressive and bendy and aggressively shallow.
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
Another beguiling if draining fantasia from Jean-Pierre Jeuet that harkens back to silent movies.
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."
Boxoffice Magazine by Pam Grady
Like "Amelie," Micmacs is visually dazzling, the ravishing images coming courtesy of "La Vie en Rose" cinematographer, Tetsuo Nagata.
Movieline by Stephanie Zacharek
Nearly everyone, and everything, in Micmacs is at one point or another guilty of trying too hard.
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.
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