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After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Gilles Lellouche
Benzène
Vincent Lacoste
Méthanol
Anaïs Demoustier
Nicotine
Jean-Pascal Zadi
Mercure
Oulaya Amamra
Ammoniaque
Alain Chabat
Chef Didier (voice)
David Marsais
Jacques
Julia Faure
Denise
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Céline
Grégoire Ludig
Christophe
Doria Tillier
Agathe
Jérôme Niel
Bruno
Blanche Gardin
Tata Tony
Anthony Sonigo
Michaël
Raphaël Quenard
Max
Benoît Poelvoorde
Lézardin
Tanguy Mercier
Le gosse
Olivier Afonso
Tortusse / Carfardin
Ferdinand Canaud
Norbert 500 / Norbert 1200 (voice)
Marie Bunel
La caissière
Thémis Terrier-Thiébaux
Josette
Sava Lolov
Le père de Josette
Charlotte Laemmel
La mère de Josette / Nicole
Franck Lascombes
Barracuda / L'assistant de Lézardin (voice)
Frédéric Bonpart
Ouvrier 1
José Da Silva
Ouvrier 2
Elodie Mareau
La femme de Mercure
Lou Tribord
Enfant de Mercure 1
Zoé Tribord
Enfant de Mercure 2
Benoîte Chivot
Lézardine
Jules Dhios Francisco
Lezardou
Marie-Pierre Bellefleur
Rebecca
Director, Writer
Quentin Dupieux
July 21, 2023
6
The avenging "Tobacco Force" group of crime fighters is struggling to function. After many years of combating enemy beasties using their superpowers - the chemicals that, when combined, cause cancer - they are all just falling out of synch. This has not escaped the notice of their ferret-like boss "Chef Didier" who sends them all to a remote retreat where they are to work on their teamwork skills. Around the camp fire, one decides to regale the others with his most terrifying story - and thereafter, one by one, they proceed to outdo each other with increasingly incredulous stories whilst the two women of the group - "Nicotine" (Anaïs Demoustier) and "Ammoniaque" (Oulaya Amamra) pine over the spurned affections of their really pretty revolting, dribbling, boss (anyone remember "Roland Rat"?). For a while it's quite quirkily entertaining, this film - but after about half an hour the joke has worn thin, the pace drops off and the whole thing just loses it's way. It is original - at times it reminded me a little of "Galaxy Quest" (1999), and clearly there is a warning against using the dreaded weed, but Quentin Dupieux didn't really have enough material to sustain this - even for eighty minutes. That said, it is still worth a watch and there are occasions when it made me smile - just not enough of them - and on the telly will do fine.