Adopting the same stylised, magical view of Paris as Amélie, coupled with the visual invention of Delicatessen, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet's whimsical comedy is a deliciously smart satire on the arms trade. French superstar Dany Boon is exemplary as the deadpan Buster Keaton-like vagrant who, with help from his new-found family of homeless scavengers, takes inspired revenge on the weapons manufacturers responsible for his plight. Chock full of Jeunet's distinctive set designs, supreme sight gags, quirky characters (such as a human cannonball played by Jeunet regular Dominique Pinon) and luminous cinematography, this "Steptoe and Son in Wonderland" fairy tale offers limitless scope for the director's unique imagination. From the fabulous automated sculptures constructed in the Aladdin's cave-style hideaway, to a brilliantly orchestrated trip to a pretend war zone and the Looney Tunes inspired action, this continually astonishes, enchants and beguiles.

While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.