 Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant are also featured.The live action film employs cartoon-style slapstick heavily, including sound effects, which enhances the movie's signature surreal humour.The plot combines material based on conspiracy theories, secret societies, and historic mysteries, as well as outlandish "clockpunk" technology "à la" Coburn's "Our Man Flint" movies of the 1960s.