Sometimes, even adults need cartoons. As it is obvious, they couldn’t possibly enjoy the crayon-contoured, vividly-colored characters that give life to the designed for children plots. Probably, a more mature plot couldn’t even be persuasive with this kind of characters.

Therefore, adults’ cartoons feature people. And in order to make them so appealing that the productions would be both amusing and lucrative, heavy names are brought on the cast list. This is how Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich or Tilda Swinton bond together in an adults’ cartoon gig, “Burn After Reading.”

The movie, which lit foreheads at the Venice Film Festival, opens in US theatres on September 12. What is essential to know about it is that it bears a triple signature of the iconic Coen Brothers. Joel and Ethan Coen are responsible with writing, directing and producing the flick, and that is nothing but a good recommendation for the movie. “Burn After Reading” follows the bro’s multiple Oscar winner “No Country For Old Men,” returning to the genre that made them a living legend, black satire, whose epitomic reps are “Fargo,” “Barton Fink” or “The Man Who Wasn’t There.”

Malkovich plays Osborne Cox, a CIA analyst whose drinking habits make the intelligence services get rid of him. But he retreats from his position, finding solace in the thought of a vendetta. He plans to release his tell-all memoirs, revealing essential secrets of the agency. His wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton), a mean doctor and an even more ruthless spouse, immediately questions the existence of his potential readers. Moreover, she secretly prepares the documentation to file for divorce, hoping that her lover, Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney) will make the same step with his wife. What Katie doesn’t even suspect is that Harry has to renounce his wife and his mistress, Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) to be with her.

Linda is a gym employee who is craving for a new body, sculptured with the modern cosmetic surgery methods. Therefore, she is considering every circumstance as a means of gathering money for this purpose. Linda and her pal, fitness trainer Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) are ready to go at great lengths when they discover Osborne’s CD lying on the floor, containing all the important details about the CIA. The two decide to take full advantage of their discovery, determined to get some pretty money from whoever bids higher, Osborne or the Russian services. Their clumsiness is monumental and all characters’ pickle-brains are the salt and pepper of the action.

And as it is a Coen Brothers’ production, it is full of action. Chases, punches, shootings and lots and lots of funny moments will shoot your brains out. It is the Coens’ revenge of having been taken so seriously after “No Country.” It is their merit that the abdominal muscular fevers after the movie will hinder you from feeling at ease. After all, they’re the masters of black comedies of the moment.