Starring Elsa Zylberstein, Isabelle Nanty, Stephane De Groodt and Claude Perron.
Written Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
★★
French sci-fi is so weird. Picture a movie that decides to combine The Fifth Element with the Black Hole Sun music video, but with a $7 million budget and largely in one setting.
The garishly colorful comedy takes place in a near future where humans have abdicated most of their daily chores to AI robots, including government. A group of people find themselves trapped in a house when the robots in charge detect a threat level outside, and now two of the humans with a plane to catch can't get out.
There are plenty of ideas bouncing around here, but for every clever one, there are two that are obnoxious. It's the kind of movie where you'll know in the first few minutes if you're going to like it or not. Director Jeunet usually has a fun flair visually (Amelie), but here he goes gaudily overboard.
At least it tried to be original, but I really can't think of to whom I could recommend this.
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