Pluskylang Great Film overall

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

gavin6942 A dedicated private eye searches for a businessman's daughter in Mexico, but the case is complicated by the amateur sleuthing of the client's accountant.First of all, it is worth noting that the movie is sadly infamous in Italy for a burning of a cinema in Turin in which it was projected, killing 63 people. So our hearts go out to them, even all these years later.The comedy is good, the detective angle is just alright. Although I have not seen the remake, my understanding is that Martin Short plays the comedic role. And that is simply perfect casting, because the actor here is very much a Martin Short-esque comedian. Or perhaps Short is influenced by this film?

david-sarkies This is one of those cool French movies with weird characters and it makes me want to come back to them. Unfortunately, like all movies, there are some good and some bad. This is one of the good ones.The extremely clumsy daughter of a Paris businessman is kidnapped on a trip to Mexico. She is not taken for a ransom, but for a prostitute, but ends up proving too much trouble. The father, desperate to find his daughter again, decides to listen to his weird psychologist who suggests that he look for his daughter by using another clumsy person. As such, this movie becomes an odd couple with a detective and a clumsy oath having to work together to find this woman.This is a good little movie with a lot of slapstick humour. Slapstick, done well, can be very funny. I think it is done quite well in this movie. In fact, the clumsy characters mean that a lot of the comedy relies on slapstick, and the occasional stupid statement. I think that it is done quite well.The one thing that comes out of the movie is the idea of true love. This only comes in right at the end, but it works on the idea of the soul mate - that is one person has somebody who is so much alike that they will find each other and be instantly attracted to each other upon meeting. We don't understand this until the end, where they see each other, and simply walk out onto the pier hand in hand. There is not sweet talk or anything, they simply take each others hands and walk out - as if it was always meant to be. This, to me, is one of the most beautiful scenes that I have ever seen.I, of course, don't believe in the idea of the soul mate, or true love. There are people which we are more attracted to than others, and sometimes things like this will happen, but the idea that everybody has a soul mate is not true. Some people say that God has a person set aside for us, but that is not what the bible says. In fact, the bible says that some people will not get married, preferring to do God's work alone. People, like my mother and father, love each other very much, but are hardly considered to be soul mates. In fact, the saying that opposites attract is more true than not.Still, this is a beautiful little movie and I really did enjoy it.

kurciasbezdalas This is one of the best french comedies. It has a good plot, humor and acting. Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu make a great comic duo. This movie was remade in USA and named "pure luck" but i think french version was funnier and the acting was much better than in American version. Althou if you already seen the American version than there is no point watching this because even jokes were the same in both versions. On the other hand i've watch this one only after watching "pure luck" and i still liked this version more. I don't know what more i could say about this film just watch it. And if you liked this one you should watch other Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu films like Les Compères and Les Fugitifs, they all were directed by Francis Veber.

mikungfu-1 I saw this movie back in 1982 when I was about 12 years old. I couldn't stop laughing. Another 12 years later I finally got the VHS... I thought I wasn't going to find it so funny because I was 24 years old, but I laughed even more!.. And keep laughing to this day. The film must have been so successful that this trio (Veber/Depardieu/Richard) made 2 more movies afterward, all of them equally funny. The way the director generates humor from everyday situations, shows a keen sense of observation and a capacity for caricature of the ridiculous in human nature. If one manages to abstract from the fact that it is not exactly a recent movie and if one concentrates on the humor of the situations, attitudes, face expressions, etc... One will easily realize that it is not needed to behave like a clown, falling dressed on a swimming pool or smashing wedding cakes on someone's face... Or screaming vulgar words, to be funny. A true Golden "Oldie", and a definite must see!..