French superstar Dany Boon is Bazil, a man whose life is destroyed when he is orphaned and wounded by munitions from two competing arms manufacturers. Jobless and penniless, he is taken in by a family of endearing misfits who live beneath a Parisian junkyard salvaging scrap metal. Together the gang, each with their own eccentric specialty (a former human cannonball, a numbers genius, a bendy contortionist), set out to pitch the manufacturers against each other in a series of brilliant tricks. Bursting with imagination and Jeunet's celebrated magical realism, this is a whimsical cross between his previous hits Amélie and Delicatessen that balances witty satire and childlike playfulness. Slapstick comedy that is pure, unabashed fun.