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Fumer Fait Tousser
Smoking Causes Coughing
France 2022
produced by Hugo Sélignac for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions
directed by Quentin Dupieux
starring Oulaya Amamra, Vincent Lacoste, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Anaïs Demoustier, Alain Chabat (voice), Benoît Poelvoorde, Ferdinand Canaud (voice), Adèle Exarchopoulos, Julia Faure, Jules Dhios Francisco, Blanche Gardin, Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Jérôme Niel, Raphaël Quenard, Anthony Sonigo, Doria Tillier
written by Quentin Dupieux
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The Tobacco Force is a quintet of masked and uniformed superheroes
(Oulaya Amamra, Vincent Lacoste, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Anais
Demoustier) who fight evil by using the combined cancer-causing substances
contained in cigarettes as their weapon of choice. They're commandeered by
human-sized rat Chief Didier (Alain Chabat) - who of late has noticed that
there's some friction in the team, and since there's an end battle that
could threaten the fate of earth against evil conquerer Lezardin (Benoît
Poelvoorde) on the horizon, Chief Didier sends them to a superhero retreat
by a lake for a team building holiday. Once there, our heroes are pretty
clueless what to actually do with their time off, so mostly they sit
around the campfire telling each other scary tales, mocking their pretty
dim robot sidekick, and going through all kinds of heartbreak - only to
almost come too late for the final battle ...
Taking cues from Japanese superhero team series from the
1970's and beyond that eventually spawned the US American Mighty
Morphin Power Rangers in the 1990s, Fumer Fait Tousser in
2022 feels like it has come a little too late for the party - and that's
only one aspect that makes it so great, its anachronistic nature, its
reliance on mediocre practical effects, its rather second rate monsters,
robots and costumes, and its weird fight scenes. But Fumer Fait Tousser
never tries to be a mere parody movie, it just uses its premise for a
crazy and intentionally cheesy character comedy, and the macabre shorts
(the scary stories around the campfire) thrown in anthology style make
perfect intermissions, while the humour finds a perfect balance between
loveable silliness and subtle satire to make this one great entertainment.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
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a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
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