After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers— known as the "Tobacco Force"—is sent on...
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 in the latest film from comedy absurdist filmmaker Quentin Dupieux (Deer Skin). Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
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A French-as-all-hell portmanteau pic framed around a wonky Power Rangers-like team of heroes and their slime-drooling rat boss straight out of Meet the Feebles, featuring Quentin Dupieux’s trademark weirdness, plenty of gore and a healthy serving of comic Gallic disdain.
94 %85 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
51 %78 reviewsAudience score rating
"Smoking Causes Coughing moves unhurriedly from moment to moment, which makes its perpetually strung-out jokes even funnier."
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com"(Dupieux's) latest might be his funniest yet..."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It’s as consistently surprising and deranged a movie as any from (Dupieux's) output, even if not for all tastes, which he knows."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"It’s not a criticism to say that Smoking Causes Coughing doesn’t hold together, because cohesion isn’t what Dupieux is going for."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Harmless stupidity is where Dupieux thrives. Smoking Causes Coughing plays to these strengths, being both sublimely silly and unpredictably, addictively light."
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Paste
Paste"The cast is uniformly excellent and delivers enthusiastic performances..."
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Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle"Smoking Causes Coughing can seem frivolous, even cynical, but it carries an explosive under its ironic surface."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"The sheer irreverence of everything here... is more than enough to cause serious giggling fits."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"(An) amiably trollish throwaway..."
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Variety
Variety"Smoking Causes Coughing brings to mind Psycho Goreman in its blend of absurdist humour, buckets of gore, and rubber monsters."
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Bloody DisgustingSmoking Causes Coughing | Details
- Rating
- 15, strong language, violence, comic gore
- Runtime
- 77
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- France
