Micmacs

 

 

 

The latest film from Amélie creator Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Wild, wacky and enormously entertaining.

A new film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of the much-loved Amélie, is always something to look forward to and Micmacs does not disappoint. Full of the same wild inventiveness and wacky charm, Micmacs is an ingenious blend of boys own adventure and slapstick comedy with a surreal political edge.

Dany Boon (Welcome to the Sticks), the hugely popular French comic, stars as Bazil, a lowly video store clerk who finds himself with a bullet in his head as a result of a freak accident. It's the final straw for Bazil, still mourning the death of his solider father, and he sets out on a one man campaign against the arms traders ultimately responsible for his misfortune. On his quest for revenge he encounters a rag-tag bunch of scavengers, ‘Micmacs', (who include some very familiar faces) and gradually Bazil becomes part of their ‘family' and draws them in to his mission.

As one would expect from a Jeunet film, Micmacs is full of ideas and invention; from the junkyard home of the Micmacs themselves, full of ingenious thingamajigs, through to the increasingly convoluted scams Bazil plays on the hapless arms traders - Jeunet packs more creativity into one film than most directors manage in a career. Crammed with more visual gags, Heath Robinson-esque contraptions and quirky characters than you can shake a stick at, Micmacs is outrageously enjoyable and utterly unlike anything you have ever seen before.