Smoking Causes Coughing
- Original Title
- Fumer fait tousser
- year
- 2022
- country
- France
- language
- French
- runtime
- 80
- closed captions
- No
- audio description
- No
- english subtitles
- Yes
- film contact
- Magnolia Pictures
- film contact email
- [email protected]
- film website
- https://www.magnoliapictures.com/
When a team of Power Rangers-like superheroes known as the Tobacco Force and their trusty robot are forced to take a one-week retreat, their team building exercises transform into an anthology of horror in the latest oddity from French provocateur Quentin Dupieux (“Rubber”—CIFF35; “Deerskin”—CIFF44). —M.G.
With their cancer-causing chemicals combined, Tobacco Force is the Captain Planet-meets-Power Rangers squad to be reckoned with. Although, lately, morale has been low for the anti-cigarette avengers. Donning their matching blue and yellow leotards, the five superheroes go on a retreat to regroup and boost their team spirit before facing the world’s most threatening villain, Lizardin. With occasional stints of excessive violence, gruesome campfire tales, and laugh-out-loud absurdity, SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING is nothing short of outrageously entertaining. The wild antics and treacherous consequences, albeit hilarious, may have first-timers thinking twice about taking that initial puff. It could ultimately be their devastating demise. —A.B.
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- Comedies
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