After a five year hiatus from making films,after 'A Very Long Engagement',director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ('Amelie,'City Of Lost Children',etc.)has gone and directed another crowd pleaser. This time, it's 'Micmacs' (released in Europe as 'Micmacs a'tire-larigot',for reasons I will not reveal,which would spoil a central element of fun),a tale of retribution against two merchants of death. Bazil is a young man who lost his parents as a young boy,all due to weapons produced by two rival companies. If that wasn't enough,he is accidentally shot in the head by a bullet produced by one of the same companies during an adjacent robbery attempt,elsewhere. When it seems Bazil will never be a "normal" person,he ends up homeless,where he is taken in by some equally homeless people living in the local trash dump,in dwellings made up of refuse. While among them,Bazil & his new "family" decide to take both harbingers of death down several notches. The results make for a funny,loopy & sometime surreal evening at the movies. Dany Bloom,as Bazil,leads a mostly unknown cast (but does include long time Jeunet regular,Dominiue Pinon,as one of the street persons),with Andre Dussollier,as Nicholas Thibault de Fenouillet,and Nicholas Marie,as Francois Marconi,as the guilty parties that are responsible for Bazil's misfortunes in life. Jean Pierre Jeunet directs from a screenplay written by Jeunet,in collaboration with Guillaume Laurent. The film's cinematography is by Tetsuo Nagato,with editing by Herve Schneid. I enjoyed the various nods to fellow film makers such as Jacques Tati,Terry Gilliam,and way too many to mention. Spoken in French with English subtitles. Rated 'R' by the MPAA for some outbursts of rude language,brief flashes of violence & some sexual content