TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
ericmarseille
I have to say, this comedy is extremely characteristic of recent french comedies, like "beur sur la ville", "vive la France" or "mais qui a re-tué pamela rose?" etc.They can be utterly hilarious at times, and dead boring at others...What they lack to date is a satisfactory DENSITY of cracking gags (that's why, by the way, old comedies like "Le père noël est une ordure" still rule...With a cult gag practically every minute!).That said, the best gags in a french comedy make me laugh one thousand times louder than everything Hollywood is able to dish out! French films hold no taboos and ridicule just about everything in life and that's super refreshing (e.g., when Kad Merad shows his boss the photo of "his sixth one", an impossibly ugly little girl...Who would dare to do that in the US?)I have laughed like I haven't for years (even in the best sequences of the above films)in two separate sequences of this film ; yet one of both, occurring in a Vietnamese restaurant, implies reading subtitles, even if you understand french, since the dialog itself is held in Vietnamese (there were french subtitles).just for those two hilarious gags, and of course a few other ones, I so much wanted to give this film a 7 or a 8, but it would be utter nonsense...The rest is simply too plain boring and Kad, who generally makes very good, crazy characters, is totally out of his role...But Clovis Cornillac is very good in his over-stingy, womanizing, French-Vietnamese policeman role.I think this film is worth watching once, be it for the face of Clovis Cornillac chasing (what? You'll know watching the film), up to the surface of the swimming-pool, silently shouting "NOOOOOOO!!!" while staring at his sweetheart of the day, or trying to reduce a restaurant bill to a minimum using his Vietnamese language skills(as an aside, you'll probably understand why so many French waiters are grumpy!):)))
Stella Bella
one of the worst French film i have ever seen! shame for an actor like Clovis Cornillac who was really good in Le Serpent. The scenario is really silly just like the actors who are playing dumbs but even if you don't take it seriously the stupidity of the characters is just way too much. Carole Bouquet also has one of the worst role of her career. Comedy does not need to be that stupid to be funny. Plus, i don't understand what's the fuss about Kad Merad who used to be pretty funny in movies before Bienvenue chez les Tchis, now he is just stupider and getting a worst career than Adam Sandler for example who doesn't do great comedies most of the time. To be missed for sure.....
