‘Big Bug’ review: Sex robots take France by storm in wild Netflix movie

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on Netflix. There must be a French term that encapsulates all of that. Je ne sais quoi, perhaps.About a group of wacky francophones trapped together in a sleek home by their talking tech and trying to figure out a way to escape, it’s the delirious European ensemble movie you should watch this weekend instead of that awful “Death on the Nile.”Running time: 111 minutes.

Rated TV-MA. On Netflix.The strangeness of Jeunet that film buffs once had to seek out at arthouse cinemas feels right at home on the streaming platform.

Viewers have been devouring warped foreign takes on social ills and technology lately, like the Korean mega-hit series “Squid Game.” Here’s another.While “Big Bug” is characteristically eccentric, it also has the most mainstream appeal of any Jeunet film since “Amélie.”The crazy characters are Alice (Elsa Zylberstein), a single mother, and her bored son Léo (Helie Thonnat); her ex-husband Victor (Youssef Hajdi) and his whiny young girlfriend Jennifer (Claire Chust); older neighbor Françoise (Isabelle Nanty), who is in love with her sex robot Greg (Alban Lenoir); a director (Stéphane De Groodt) who is trying to get in bed with Alice, and his politically active daughter Nina (Marysole Fertard).

Their robots, led by the Stepford-wife-like Monique (Claude Perron), lock them inside to “protect” them from an incoming attack by the all-controlling Yonyx bots — they look like the Borg of “Star Trek” and act like the Terminator.As the captives devise their exodus, personalities — and occasionally bodies — clash.