Micmacs is the story of an oddball character Bazil who gets shot in the head early on and is left with the possibility of dying at any moment. He vows revenge on the arms dealers that made the bullet, and after teaming up with a collection of other oddball underground misfits, he launches a campaign to undermine the arms dealers and get them out of business.
What we have is some signature Jeunet strange people, some signature off-kilter shots and cutaways, and some cool design buildings, rooms, and ideas. There is not as much of any of these though, to ever be compared to Amelie or Lost Children. Bazil has a thing of focusing himself by asking himself random questions, i.e. how many people does it take to wear down a step, and we'll have a cutaway to that. We'll see brief histories or brief oddities about characters, but not as much as the signature Amelie.
Additionally, his main character and his others are not given as much love and detail. I suppose Bazil is likable, but I did not like him. He seems a bit like he's trying too hard, and Dany Boon isn't exactly exploding with charm or empathy to make us connect with him. We get Dominique Pinon as a guy who launches himself out of cannons, we get a contortionist, we get a math whiz woman, and other people who make up this misfit family, but none of them are as automatic and immediate as Krank, One, Amelie, or Raphael or Nino.
I don't really know. I didn't remember Micmacs as a film at all, and I doubt I'll remember it or rewatch it after this. Decidedly sub-par.
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