Review of Micmacs

Micmacs (2009)
7/10
Sweet
1 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This is Jean-Pierre Jeunet's tale of a man and his adopted family of crazies (the director described them as a version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at a Tribeca film festival Q&A) who take on the the munition companies that were responsible for the mine that killed his father and bullet that is in his head. Its a sweet little film that rambles around for about two hours before having a more or less happily ever after ending. I enjoyed the film a great deal (I enjoyed listening to the director speak before and after the film more), however the film never 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 several people around me at the Tribeca film festival were wondering why Jeunet likes to watch the last 10 minutes with audiences since it didn't provoke much of anything, no laughs, no applause just a sense of thats nice. Don't get me wrong, its worth seeing with wonderful characters, a few great set pieces and lots of in jokes (there are bill boards for the film in the film), its just more a diversion than anything else.
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