Smoking Causes Coughing

The adventures of a curiously low-rent band of superheroes known as the Tobacco Force are merely the starting point for this gloriously goofy new film from the relentlessly imaginative Quentin Dupieux (Mandibles, Rubber). After the five fighters defeat a gigantic turtle in the middle of a desert, their chief (a puppet rat) has bad news – metadata indicates that their group cohesion skills are disastrous – and sends them off on a retreat to fix the problem. Once they arrive, in lieu of self-improvement exercises, the campfire stories begin, setting into motion a shaggy-dog series of wild, unpredictable comic sketches performed by an all-star cast that includes Adèle Exarchopoulos, Vincent Lacoste, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Alain Chabat, and one very erratic robot.