← Back to films
Mandibles

Mandibles

6,3 /10 (609 Votes)
2021 FR 77 min

Overview

When two simple-minded best friends find a giant fly trapped in the trunk of a stolen car, they decide to train it in hopes of striking it rich.

Powered by JustWatch via TMDB

Release date

19/05/2021

Votes

609

Popularity

1.0

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Mandibules

Language

FR

Runtime

77 min

Budget

$4,900,000

Revenue

$2,044,087

Original Soundtrack

Loading soundtrack videos…

C

Chris Sawin

2021-07-27

⭐ 5

Quentin Dupieux has always made strange films that usually can’t be categorized as anything other than bizarre. His filmmaking career seems to have culminated with Deerskin, which is his funniest and most coherent film to date. Mandibles feels like a withdrawn version of Dupieux though. There’s a giant fly, but we don’t see enough of her as we’re subjected to two morons trying to get a free pass on life. Its attempts at humor fall flat and it’s impossible to sympathize with or find any sort of entertaining qualities in any of the characters. Mandibles is really only going to be for hardcore fa…

Read full review →