VividSimon Simply Perfect

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

tom-zaidman This movie is really very funny. It makes fun of the French aristocracy and does it in a very amusing way. Don't miss it. Jean Reno and his servant both excellent actors in this movie.

gavin6942 A medieval nobleman (Jean Reno) and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. He enlists the aid of his descendant to try to find a way to return home, all the while trying to cope with the cultural and technological changes distinguishing his time from ours.I had never heard of this film, but apparently Reno and Clavier reprised their roles in a sequel in 1998, the American remake "Just Visiting" in 2001 and a second sequel in 2016. So now I have more to see...This film is very much a cross between "Bill and Ted" and Monty Python, but still different enough to be very much its own film. I love the concept of going hundreds of years in the future to meet your offspring. That's clever. The humor is great, and I'm told it is even funnier if you speak French and don't have to rely on subtitles. (French is unfortunately not one of my better languages.)

greens-10 Although it is mainly slapstick humor to non French speakers I guess it is in the nuance of the dialog that the French find it so funny. What I liked about it was Jean Reno when playing it straight - there was real menace and one could imagine a medieval knight in today's society coming across as being psychopathic as life was cheap in mediaeval times and to kill a social inferior was as nothing. I also liked the scene not long after the start when the French King, although short and portly had a convincing regal air about him, darting keen shrewd glances about him as he walked through the camp. And the knights looked like real men at arms, a very tough bunch of warriors. If you stay through the titles at the end you will get a wave from a knight in armor who happens to be wearing sun glasses. The version I saw had sub-titles that were in keeping with the ambiance of the screenplay - slightly quaint and old fashioned. They were perfect in their intent of conveying the meaning of the clever and understated French dialog. These sub-titles were for the showing of the movie on Australian SBS channel. No advertisements either, it ran straight through non-stop. Reno plays it as a buffoon for much of the time but underpins his role with occasional deadly serious approaches to his plight and never hesitates to resort to violence to get his way. He presents an unshakeable determination to resolve the matter of being transported in time, resulting in a portrayal of a French knight of old which is very convincing. You would not want to cross this guy. I have watched this movie a number of times and can assure potential viewers that it is truly a very funny movie. Disregard the criticisms of those who didn't like it, they must be pathetically and pathologically humourless.

JoeytheBrit I once commented rather unflatteringly on a film featuring French comedian Louis de Funes a few years ago, and I believe it is one of the least 'useful' comments I have written. Something like 0 out of 19, I think. When it comes to French humour I clearly don't 'get' it, because this successful comedy also left me cold.It begins promisingly, and the scenes featuring Jean Reno's Godefrey de Papincourt and Christian Clavier's Jacquard in their own time are by far the funniest and strongest. Unfortunately, things descend into a typically Gallic farce when they unexpectedly find themselves transported to modern-day France. It's surprising, really, because you'd think the potential for laughs from this 'fish out of water' scenario would be virtually inexhaustible. In this case, however, they're practically invisible. The hapless knight and his serf drink water from the toilet and leave the basin taps running, they pull light fittings from the wall believing them to be torches (one of the funnier moments) and get travel sickness in cars.Jean Reno has a face made for comedy – although this is the first one I can remember seeing him in and he provides most of the laughs. Clavier's brand of humour is too broad (he also co-wrote) and he is too prone to pulling faces to get laughs. Many of the other characters are simply annoying; they either do stupid things or stand around screeching at what Reno and Clavier are doing. Clavier plays two roles, and it's a toss up as to which is the least funny.Other reviewers have suggested that much of the humour will be lost if you need to rely on subtitles to understand what is being said. While this may be true, it can't account for the number of visual gags that fall flat.