SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (FUMER FAIT TOUSSER)

Delight in Quentin Dupieux’s madcap infidelity to genre expectations in this bloody, fun, French superhero spoof. Tangling with low-budget, rubber-suited villains, the Tobacco Force dispels adversaries with the explosive, cancer-causing effects of cigarette smoke. But when a streak of individualism threatens the Tobacco Force’s group cohesion, their boss sends them away on a team-building retreat. There, the film slips into a mosaic of gory, humorous campfire tales, each more stupefying than the last. ~TW