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Genres: ComedyCr
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Dany Boon, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, André Dussollier, Omar Sy
Director(s): Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Available Quality: Hi Def
Country: France
Year: 2009
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
IMDB Rating: 7.2 out of 10 (11693 votes)
A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers.
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SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain (18 May 2012)
Micmacs (2009)
Jeunet is back with his magically enchanting trademark style. He's gotthe visuals down, with the help of cinematographer Tetsuo Nagata, whoturns every yellow into a sunset gold. The film may have strong themesabout weapons manufacture and the arms trade, but it's done in thestyle of a children's story. A children's story heist film. We can seeJeunet's silent movie influenced slapstick run riot, as Boon's toessteal his cardboard shelter away from him. It's a joyous film toexperience, with cartoon like interludes of grin evoking madness. Itmight be too uneven for some, or too whimsical for others, but if youare looking for style AND substance, you can't go wrong.
pyrocitor (17 May 2012)
Madcap and charming yet poignant -a romp with a 'gaze'
Picture Mission:Impossible, Brian De Palma's 1996 spy heist film, asslick and shining as star Tom Cruise's pearly grin. Now picture thesame film, albeit with Cruise concocting a convoluted raid with the useof an alarm clock and a fish bowl full of hornets while shootinghimself out of a cannon. Such a juxtaposition, apart from being adescription of one of the most ingeniously enjoyable set pieces ofJean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs, also serves to articulate exactly howdelightful and refreshing Jeunet's film is in comparison to itsHollywood brethren. What was on the surface a mere revenge caper istransformed into one of the most charming and offbeat films to gracecinemas of the year, and, crucially, one of the most irreverently fun. It would be tempting to compare Micmacs as a film to one of thehaphazard, cobbled together schemes of its cast of misfit adventurersif Jeunet's directorial vision did not radiate through the film soinescapably. While his film does pick up momentum to become close tothe nonstop manic quirkfest its trailer suggests, Jeunet has far fromthrown composure to the winds, offering a scrumptiously smoky visualaesthetic more akin to the silky film noir classics protagonist Bazilobsesses over (even the musical score purloins excerpts from MaxSteiner's The Big Sleep overture in between current composer RaphaëlBeau's whimsical tinkling piano solos). Equally, Jeunet alternatesmadcap heist spoofing with genuine sentiment, dwelling sufficiently onthe heartbreak of Bazil's tragic circumstances to amplify theexuberance of his subsequent twinkling retribution. Such sprinklings ofgravity, rather than spoiling the fun, instead add balance and context,making Micmacs a romp with a 'gaze' (as Bazil would put it) rather thanstrictly frivolous. While the precariously convoluted plot lags attimes and errs on the side of straining suspension of disbelief(arguably for the sake of again emulating The Big Sleep's nonsensicaltwists and turns) and skimps on development of its bevy of colourfulcharacters, Jeunet's effortless earnest charm is as strong as ever,making his film, simply put, too much fun to criticize. As the irrepressible Bazil, Dany Boon demonstrates enough boundlesscharisma and sparkle to make his cultivated comparisons to Chaplin orKeaton not entirely hyperbole. Sprinkling enough physical comedy (hisconsistent slapping his bullet wound and early busking antics arehighlights) into a performance riddled as much with pathos as charm,Boon epitomizes comedic balance, and is nothing short of a joy towatch. Similarly, André Dussollier and Nicolas Marié are ferociouslyenjoyable as warring arms dealers pitted against each other by Bazil,and Bazil's gang of lovable miscreants are a collective triumph ofhilarity and heart (particularly gregarious show stealers DominiquePinon, as adept at balancing spoons on his face or devilishly wigglinghis tongue as launching himself out of cannons and Julie Ferrier'ssnappy contortionist). An impressive blend of classic and contemporary, Micmacs channels thecomedic spirit of Keaton and Chaplin into the nimble film-making of oneof the industry's most inventive directors. While those seeking outsoul searching complexity might find themselves shaking their headssomewhat, any more sensible audiences will instead find their headsshaking from chuckles at as welcomely silly and strange a bout ofcinematic entertainment as any could hope for. And that is indisputablyas noble a gaze as any.-8/10
purrrpuss (14 May 2012)
Fantasy revenge story
With a story arc very similar to the director's earlier film 'Amelie',Micmacs is a tour de force in fantasy made real. There's heaps ofcharm, plenty of improbable scenarios and a cast of colourfulcharacters. Perfect for a rainy day diversion. Surprisingly, this filmhas a serious message, one that is too serious even for documentariesto deal with successfully. I got the message and was thankful for it.Professional critics don't like it though because it appears to crossthe serious/comic genre definitions. This is a very clever andbeautifully filmed movie and one that I can imagine revisiting manytimes in the future. That makes it a classic for me. It has much depthdespite the glaring plot holes. I loved it.
(13 May 2012)
Hits the target but not quite a bullseye
Like many of the other folks reviewing this, I'm a big Jean-Pierre Jeunet fan. Amelie, City of Children (La cité des enfants perdus), Delicatessen, etc...all exceptional movies and all having those surrealistic, fantastical, whimsical-laden settings and heart-tugging story lines that Jean-Pierre Jeunet does so well. Micmacs seems very much in the same vein of his previous films with a minor exception for me. I just didn't feel the character development was on par with his previous works. That one little ingredient in a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film that usually cements the experience for me is a level of empathetic bonding with the characters. He's phenomenal at portraying and visualizing a character's emotional response in a way that is so easy to relate to, usually in a very child-like and innocent way.And that's where this movie just didn't quite reach the same bar as the rest of his works (for me anyway). The cinematography and set design were, per usual, incredible. The story line is interesting and entertaining, and the ensemble of characters he's created have that magical element, but I can't say I felt the same level of emotional connection to the characters as I have in his past movies. It seemed like he didn't have enough time to develop the background and pull the viewer in so effortlessly, say like the opening sequence in Amelie (still one of my all-time favorite sequences in a movie).If you like Jean-Pierre Jeunet films, I expect you'll like this. I did, just not quite as much as his previous works (a couple of which I would probably rate 6 out of 5 stars), but it was still a very enjoyable escape during the hour and 45 minutes it ran. Definitely worth a watch.
dbborroughs (12 May 2012)
Sweet
This is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's tale of a man and his adopted family ofcrazies (the director described them as a version of Snow White and theSeven Dwarfs at a Tribeca film festival Q&A) who take on the themunition companies that were responsible for the mine that killed hisfather and bullet that is in his head. Its a sweet little film thatrambles around for about two hours before having a more or less happilyever after ending. I enjoyed the film a great deal (I enjoyed listeningto the director speak before and after the film more), however the filmnever builds to any sort of grand conclusion. Sure the ending is happy,but it kind of leaves you wondering if thats it. I know I, and severalpeople around me at the Tribeca film festival were wondering why Jeunetlikes to watch the last 10 minutes with audiences since it didn'tprovoke much of anything, no laughs, no applause just a sense of thatsnice. Don't get me wrong, its worth seeing with wonderful characters, afew great set pieces and lots of in jokes (there are bill boards forthe film in the film), its just more a diversion than anything else.
stensson (12 May 2012)
Not like anything else. As usual
From the first second, you recognize a Jeunet film. From the colors,the composition and the doll-like moves of the actors. Also from theplots. Nobody else does these sagas about French underdogs fighting theFrench overdog establishment.The hero's father is killed by a mine. The hero is hit in the head by abullet. He meets some people who literally live in the garbage; themurderer, the artist, the woman with the flexible body. And they starta crusade against the weapon industry and the government.Even if you shouldn't care about the plot, you'll get fullentertainment from the picture language. Not like anything else.
Cliff Hanley (11 May 2012)
Exhilarating bag of tricks
By the director of Delicatessen and Amelie, this is closer to theearlier one. It's that mad jumble of images and daring camera-workagain. And again it turns out to be a film quite unlike the one youwere expecting. I'm sure someone has said this somewhere already, butit's worth repeating. I'm talking about Fellini on acid.After an electrifying prologue in which our hero is orphaned, thescreen explodes into a big-budget retro Hollywood opening and the storybegins.Almost right away our man Bazil, played by star of the French screenDanny Boon, is wounded by a stray bullet, losing his job after a longspell in hospital. He's saved from oblivion by a family of freakymisfits who live underground, surviving by rescuing the junk societythrows out and giving it new life.What Bazil really wants is to get his own back on the two armsmanufacturers who messed up his life, and his new friends are theperfect mates for carrying out such a scheme. They include a humancannonball, a numbers genius, a circus contortionist and a robotinventor, and their plots are just as wacky as they are.Talking of plots, the story, packed though it is with fantastic imageryas if it were a story about bad adults written by very clever children,races along regardless. The scene where Bazil gets shot is itself somuch more than a simple zap with a bullet. It's a short film in itself,and the whole thing is full of chunks like that. It really is too muchto eat at one sitting, and I would recommend a second look. You'llprobably see me there, in the front row, my jaw in my lap.
chrismsawin (11 May 2012)
Exquisite eye candy and little else.
It seems as though I have a lot of catching up to when it comes todirector Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Amelie in the top 250 on IMDb andmany people talking about how great both Delicatessen and The City ofLost Children are, it's definitely something I'll have to look into. Inthe meantime, before Micmacs Alien: Resurrection had been the only filmof Jeunet's that I'd seen. It had been way too long since my lastviewing of that, so I didn't make the connection that it was the samedirector until after Micmacs was over. There are quite a lot ofpositive reviews and comments about Micmacs all over the internet, so Ifelt like I had to see it. Unfortunately, it didn't click with me asmuch as it did with others.The film does have a unique look to it that was originally what grabbeda hold of my interest. The first thing that comes to mind is how quirkyand eccentric the animation and visual effects are. Whether it's themechanical creatures Petit Pierre creates with recycled materials orthe unusual bits of animation in the film, it's all incredibly eyecatching.The biggest element the film is missing, however, is characterdevelopment. There really seems to be not much of any in this film.You're introduced to these oddball characters, but then the rest of thefilm is devoted to this intricate plan on how to take down these twoweapons manufacturers. Even the one subplot that has two of thecharacters fall in love doesn't get enough screen time. It's like thefilm becomes too wrapped up and involved within its own whimsicaldesires to really establish much of anything else. To add to that, thefilm isn't really funny despite being labeled as a comedy. It has itsshort lived charming moments that will put a smile on your face, butthere's maybe one or two scenes that might make you snicker audibly.Micmacs devotes too much time to its playfully involved and originaltale of revenge that results in you not really caring about thecharacters by the time the film ends. It's visually stunning, but haslittle to offer other than fantastic visuals that ooze creativity fromevery frame. Despite being a rather elaborate tale of revenge, the filmis slightly reminiscent of what Michel Gondry's take on Snatch would belike. Whether that's good or bad lies entirely within the personviewing the film.
(09 May 2012)
Engaging, Fun, Needs Dubbing Badly, Subtitles Flaky
This romp pits a group of subterrean folks-misfits is not really the right word-against well-connected interests in a very unfair world. The gadgetry and Parisian backgrounds (mostly in non-tourist venues) are a rich canvas for the antics, however improbable, of this troup. The characters are mostly believable and well-drawn. The movie's only flaw is that the subtitles are not complete. I can't comment on accuracy since I am not a Francophone. But there are several segments when the characters are singing or speaking and the subtitles are absent. Most subtitling of foreign films for Anglophone audiences is poor quality and it's this kind of carelessness that turns people off from subtitled films they would otherwise enjoy. If this movie were carefully dubbed in English it would have a much wider appeal to Anglophone audiences.
hfeldst (09 May 2012)
Jeunet Does it Again
From the fertile mind of writer/director Jean-Pierre Jeunet comes this wonderful new film. Mr. Jenuet has brought us "Delicatessen", "City of Lost Children", "A Very Long Engagement" and most notably, "Amelie". His visual style is like no other and his whimsical approach to storytelling brings us films you never want to end. "Micmacs" happily falls into the same category. This is a most original tale of a man plagued by arms dealers (don't try to understand, it's clear when you see it) who, with help from a ragtag band of misfits living under a junkyard, plots his revenge in a most outlandish and amazing way. It is delightful from start to finish. The actors are wonderful and the cinematography is incredible. The artistic, visual storytelling is done with a minimum of dialog propelled by a wonderful score (including vintage Max Steiner material). Dany Boon stars as Bazil, the loner seeking revenge and he is a combination of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Marcel Marceau. The film also stars Andre Dussollier, a popular French actor known more for drama than comedy and Julie Ferrier, a charming and most nimble contortionist. Rounding out the cast are a number of Mr. Jeunet's usual stalwarts from his earlier films. In New York, "Micmacs" is still playing at The Angelika in Manhattan and Cobble Hill Cinema in Brooklyn. If you miss it, add it to the top of your Netflix list. It is easily one of my favorite films of the year.
Ma'moon Nader (09 May 2012)
A true experience of the new wave.
From the plot, cinematography, screenplay and sound editing, you canfind the techniques that define the french new wave are implementedvery much in Micmacs.Micmacs is a nice and an exotic story of our friend Bazil who wants toruin up the two companies that ruined up his entire life by theassistance of his weirdest group of friends you'll ever encounter byusing strange tricks and ways to succeed in their mission.For me, I liked the movie as Jean-Pierre Jeunet, one of the leadingpeople of the new wave cinema in this decade, will definitely take youin a very strange and a lovely world of his own, weather you'llexperience it in Micmacs or any of his other films like "Amélie" oreven "La cité des enfants perdus".So in short, I recommend you all to watch the movie and enjoy it.
druid333-2 (08 May 2012)
Revenge Is A Dish Best Served (hot, or cold)
After a five year hiatus from making films,after 'A Very LongEngagement',director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ('Amelie,'City Of LostChildren',etc.)has gone and directed another crowd pleaser. This time,it's 'Micmacs' (released in Europe as 'Micmacs a'tire-larigot',forreasons I will not reveal,which would spoil a central element of fun),atale of retribution against two merchants of death. Bazil is a youngman who lost his parents as a young boy,all due to weapons produced bytwo rival companies. If that wasn't enough,he is accidentally shot inthe head by a bullet produced by one of the same companies during anadjacent robbery attempt,elsewhere. When it seems Bazil will never be a"normal" person,he ends up homeless,where he is taken in by someequally homeless people living in the local trash dump,in dwellingsmade up of refuse. While among them,Bazil & his new "family" decide totake both harbingers of death down several notches. The results makefor a funny,loopy & sometime surreal evening at the movies. DanyBloom,as Bazil,leads a mostly unknown cast (but does include long timeJeunet regular,Dominiue Pinon,as one of the street persons),with AndreDussollier,as Nicholas Thibault de Fenouillet,and Nicholas Marie,asFrancois Marconi,as the guilty parties that are responsible for Bazil'smisfortunes in life. Jean Pierre Jeunet directs from a screenplaywritten by Jeunet,in collaboration with Guillaume Laurent. The film'scinematography is by Tetsuo Nagato,with editing by Herve Schneid. Ienjoyed the various nods to fellow film makers such as JacquesTati,Terry Gilliam,and way too many to mention. Spoken in French withEnglish subtitles. Rated 'R' by the MPAA for some outbursts of rudelanguage,brief flashes of violence & some sexual content
(08 May 2012)
Snenaniganx
This review is from: Micmacs (DVD) Truely European paced, it just gives us more time to view and enjoy the richness and beauty of the film. Love it.
(07 May 2012)
The Latest Favorite
This review is from: Micmacs (DVD) I have been a fan of the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet since I first saw "Delicatessen" and "City of Lost Children" years ago. I confess I fail to understand what his detractors find to hold against his work. "Micmacs" did little business in American theaters. It played so briefly in my town that I missed it entirely and had to wait for the DVD release to see it at all. I rented it, and was delighted with its wacky inventiveness, and the great detail work which I associate with Jeunet. I bought it at once.
Eternality (06 May 2012)
Jeunet has once again proved that he is one of the few masters of inventive cinema.
The highly-acclaimed director of Amelie (2001) brings fans back to hiswhimsical world of comedy with Micmacs, a fun, entertaining, and cheekyouting that does not have a single dull moment. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, theFrench director of some of European cinema's most stylishly creativefilms, takes rein over a film which has a story that goes like this: Aguy named Bazil (Dany Boon) unluckily gets shot in the head butrecovers to be adopted by an oddball family of "circus freaks".Together, they seek to help Bazil to find, capture, and embarrass thepeople who were responsible for manufacturing that bullet that is stillstuck in his brain.Micmacs is a light-hearted take on crime  the crime of producing andselling weapons to maim or kill humans in wars. So with Bazilspearheading his team, they seek to destroy the egotistical heads oftwo companies that run such an evil, money-churning business. And theydo so in the most bizarre fashion anyone could think of  by playing tothe physical, intellectual, and courageous strengths of each person.There is a contortionist, a human cannonball, a human calculator, ablack who speaks via the art of abstraction, an old man who improvisesand creates things out of scrap metal, and a couple of others.Though the entire film could have been dreamt of by a director likeTerry Gilliam (Brazil, 1985; The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,2009), Jeunet makes Micmacs his own with his incredible color schemes.His trademark use of soft orange and yellow give the film a sort oflively glow that makes it look eye-pleasing. Together with the fluidityof the camera-work, it is difficult not to become engrossed in thefilm's setting and characters. Apart from a couple of sex scenesintegral to the plot, Micmacs could have been a children's movie,though that would be an insult to what Jeunet has accomplished here,despite how silly the film seems to be.Micmacs is playfully-directed, and the manner in which Jeunet tricks uswith some oh-I-didn't-see-that-coming moments would most likely pleaseus and tickle our funny bones. Most of the comedy come from physicalsituations that the characters find themselves in. Special creditshould be given to Boon whose expressive bodily and facial movementschannel the spirit of Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Micmacs isvisually stunning, with Jeunet flexing his creative muscles bysuperimposing moving images of what Bazil is thinking about on hisforehead as he copes with anxiety issues. There is no doubt that withthis quirky effort, Jeunet has once again proved that he is one of thefew masters of inventive cinema.GRADE: A- (8.5/10 or 4 stars)www.filmnomenon.blogspot.comAll rights reserved.
joshua (06 May 2012)
Inventive fun
I really enjoyed this film. Whacky and wonderful the visual sensibility does a good job of underpinning the offbeat humor that American critics don't quite seem to get. Go see it.
jjnoahjames (06 May 2012)
Great idea but something went wrong.
MicMacs was very intriguing at first and I was excited to watch JeanPierre's next film. I thought it was going to be another fun,re-watchable, classic. Yikes! Nobody is perfect. There are two hills towalk over first here. First it's confusing. This is a pet peeve ofmine. You have to try hard to follow it. Secondly even though the maincharacter is a great actor and does a phenomenal job here, he isnothing like Audrey Tautou who chemistry wise works great with JeanPierre, matteraffact A Very Long Engagement was a great complex filmthat didn't get as confusing as this.The characters are great, the story is good but the confusion is thebig killer here. Jean please make another classic with Audrey!
barnthebarn (05 May 2012)
Visually grand, mentally transfixing
When you think of revenge movies you generally picture a guy with a guntaking a swift and direct action against everyone who has ever wrongedhim. Guns are a theme here but not because our lead character, Bazil,uses one to fight injustice but because two prominent French armsdealers are responsible for his predicament. Bazil's father was killedby a landmine and Bazil himself is unwittingly shot by a stray bulletduring a drive by shooting. Though he survives, the bullet remains inhis brain causing him regular discomfort and meaning that he might dieat any moment. This adds an underlying tension to the fairly subtlestory as Bazil, out of work with nowhere to live, finds comfort with agroup of fascinating sideshow style vagabonds who eventually become hisallies in his battle against the greed, murder and manipulation ofpowerful arms dealers. Aside from a truly riveting series of sly, witty and purposeful acts bythis band of revengers, the film is also striking in its beauty withevery scene presenting an intense array of colours fusing withincredibly intricate and detailed backdrops. These prevail particularlywith the 'sideshow' who recycle scrap in to wonderful creations freshfrom a fifties cartoon short. At one point Bazil sees a segment of anold cartoon where a character shoots another in the head. This depictsthe correlation between the real world here and an animatedfantasy-land with the epic and extremely clever revenge plan played outin much the same way that Sylvester chases Tweetie Pie or Wyle E.Coyotestalks Road Runner. The films only fault is that sometimes is all almost too imaginative,barely allowing the mind to recollect what has happened before twentyor so other things occur, each steeped in a tranquil haze teasing theviewer's eyes like a mirrored tunnel encompassing a silent disco.Wonderfully indulgent movie, a treat for the eyes, ears, nose and mind.
Chris L (04 May 2012)
Delightful
Jean-Pierre Jeunet does it again - fanciful, fun, inventive, a wonderful view on a world, wit an important message that doesn't detract from the story.
musicfreeek (03 May 2012)
Extraordinary movie with totally crazy ideas
I can really recommend this movie to all people who like fantasticstory lines and ideas like you might know them from Terry Gillamsmovies. Micmacs has tons of very unusual ideas, surprising actions andquirky fantasies. It also features many strong, funny characters withdifferent habits and styles. And it is a comedy about a very sad topic,which I think is the greatest art about this movie. Moveover it hassome nice ideas about presentation, cutting and effects and it comeswith a nice, slight score. If you like the movies of Terry Gilliam, youmight also like this movie here. And by the way: It is in the typicalstyle of this director.
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