Micmacs
2009 ‘Micmacs à tire-larigot’ Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Non Stop Madness
A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers including Calculator, a math expert and statistician, Buster, a record-holder in human cannonball feats, Tiny Pete, an artistic craftsman of automatons, and Elastic Girl, a sassy contortionist. When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion.
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Part quirky comedy, part heist film, but not quite funny enough and not quite heisty enough to be truly interesting. It definitely had some very fun sequences (I loved the entire opening, up until Bazil actually met the Micmacs), but as an overall film it never really came together for me.
Too many characters who were weird for the sake of being weird and nobody that I really cared about, so the shoe-horned romance did nothing for me. It essentially felt like a series of vignettes, with some that worked and some that didn't...with a few more that didn't.
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30 Countries, 30 Days.
Day 9Country: France
Time Period: present
Theme: life is like a film, a fun take on 'revenge', bombs (especially land mines) are bad
Style of Subtitle: Thin white, with a black "shadow".
Funniest / Oddest Subtitle: Holy Macheral
What did I learn about the country:
Coincidental relation to last country I watched: Australia was one of the original signatories on Prohibition of use, stockpiling, and producing landmines
I heard there's an American remake planned: Starring Elijah Wood, Donald Sutherland, Brad Pitt, Audrey Tautou, Tom Wilkinson, and Tom Selleck. Directed by Wes AndersonThis is a frivolous and fun turn by Jeunet. It reminds me of Catch Me If You Can or the Intolerable Cruelty /…
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Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, should be the only info you require to know whether or not this is for you.
If you enjoyed his previous films (A Very Long Engagement, Amelie Alien: Resurrection, The City of Lost Children, Delicatessen) then you won't be disappointed as this one follows pretty much in the same vein.
This present of a film is a madcap comedy heist movie stuffed with weird interesting characters thrown into fantastical situations. All tied up and given to us with a big bow of french whimsy.
Watch this for the characters and the visuals as the story is thin and mostly nonsense, but I didn't care as the voyage of discovery was well worth taking.
One note of…
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Has the usual exquisite unique visual flair of Jeunet with moments of absolute creative brilliance. Unfortunately loses it's way in the middle and not all the ideas flow cohesively, however there is certainly a lot to enjoy and the film belies it's poor box office return.
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If you've seen a JP Jeunet film before (City of Lost Children, Amélie, Delicatessen) then you know what to expect with Micmacs. it's colorful, quirky, clever, and has a lot of wacky camera work. It's all classic Jeunet.
The first ten minutes of setup are probably the best thing in the movie and had me hooked right away. After that, it's 45 minutes of story stretched out to 105. Don't get me wrong, it's all so well done that I was at least mildly amused the whole time. But I did a double-take when I saw the run length just now. It felt way longer than that. I had the same problem with Delicatessen which I can't believe is only…
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This is one visually crazy film. Each scene is delicatly constructed and filmed. Another one of my many favourite films. From the director of Delicatessen, Amerlie and City of Lost Children. The dialogue is a bit strange in parts, I am not sure if it was my translation or not.
Absolute must watch.
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30 Countries, 30 Days.
Day 9Country: France
Time Period: present
Theme: life is like a film, a fun take on 'revenge', bombs (especially land mines) are bad
Style of Subtitle: Thin white, with a black "shadow".
Funniest / Oddest Subtitle: Holy Macheral
What did I learn about the country:
Coincidental relation to last country I watched: Australia was one of the original signatories on Prohibition of use, stockpiling, and producing landmines
I heard there's an American remake planned: Starring Elijah Wood, Donald Sutherland, Brad Pitt, Audrey Tautou, Tom Wilkinson, and Tom Selleck. Directed by Wes AndersonThis is a frivolous and fun turn by Jeunet. It reminds me of Catch Me If You Can or the Intolerable Cruelty /…
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Has the usual exquisite unique visual flair of Jeunet with moments of absolute creative brilliance. Unfortunately loses it's way in the middle and not all the ideas flow cohesively, however there is certainly a lot to enjoy and the film belies it's poor box office return.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Micmacs is a French steampunk comedy from the director who brought Amelie, Delicatessen and City Of The Lost Children.
It tells the story of Bazil who is accidentally shot in a drive by shooting. The bullet becomes lodged in his head, as does the idea of ruining the company who manufactured the bullet. His father was also killed by a mine from a competing arms factory. He is adopted by a strange family of misfits who live in a reclamation site who repurpose parts they find into art forms and other machinery. Together, they hatch an intricate plan to bring about the demise of the weapons companies.
What I enjoyed so much about this film is the imagination and the…
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Moments of brilliant but doesn't all quite hang together as a whole.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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very cute and quirky movie. Many small details and tricks up their sleeve against the big corp. Feel good movie that makes you smile
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"Micmacs" carece de un protagonista memorable y de una conexion emocional (el director Jean-Pierre Jeunet logro ambas con "Amelie" y "A Very Long Engagement"), sin embargo esta cinta me hizo sonreir ante su creatividad y su gran imaginacion. La vision de Jeunet es tan excentrica que muchos les parecera tediosa, sin embargo a mi me encanta como la fantasia exagerada convierte la historia en casi una caricatura de enorme ingenio.
"Micmacs" es definitivamente otra cinta valiosa en la filmografia de este director y una pelicula que se establece con una fuerte vision. En un año lleno de decepciones, es un alivio encontrarnos a alguien como Jeunet, quien va mas alla de los cliches de Hollywood. Muy recomendable. -
Micmacs is a whimsical revenge story. It has some entertaining scenes, but they didn't quite gel as a whole.