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Audio Film Review: Superheroing Fights ’Smoking Causes Coughing’
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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the newly released “Smoking Causes Coughing,” an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, and a ripe, necessary superhero genre parody. Currently in theaters, since March 31st.!—break—>
![]() Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
This is a French film that involves the Tobacco Force … five plasticine clad heroes who themselves look like the Power Rangers, fight evildoers who look like Japanese monsters from the 1950s, have an off-putting robot companion and use their powers of spraying cancer causing agents found in cigarettes. And that’s not all … they also tell stories that become a short film within the film … all having nothing to do with the heroes themselves.
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Smoking Causes Coughing
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