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Summary: Difficult to follow subtitles
Review: It was difficult to follow the movie with the subtitles.
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Summary: The funniest movie ever made
Review: Jean Reno stars in this marvellously funny film about a knight and his squire who go to our time to save a loved one. Do not miss it!
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Summary: It was a great, funny and exciting. Also very enjoyable.
Review: Jean Reno, Muriel Robin et Christian Clavier: partis pour une nouvelle aventure dans les couloirs de la comedie. I would Reccommend it to anyone. There was plenty of laughter, and comedy. I watched it on Channel SBS Australia on October 4 1999.
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Summary: original recipe the best
Review: Last year, the 1993 French film "Les Visiteurs" was remade for American audiences. "Just Visiting" retained its principal French actors, Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, and added the unremarkable TV actress Christine Applegate. I didn't see it on principle because remaking French films is as bad an idea as turning movies into Broadway shows.
The premise of the film is simple. A medieval nobleman (Reno) and his squire (Clavier) take a bad potion and are sent into the future. Before they can get back home, Comte Godefroy de Montmirail and his squire Jacquart have to adapt to modern day France. These scenes are pure candy. Just about anything Christian Clavier does produces intense laughter, whether he is eating a sandwich with the plastic wrap, making animal noises into a telephone, or scrambling on the floor for left-over potato scraps. Better still is watching Reno and Clavier attempt to master modern bathing. This is good, old-fashioned slapstick humor, and it works without insulting your intelligence. In the end, the plot of "Les Visiteurs" is incidental as the supporting characters. It involves some younglings and a search for a dungeon. There are some special effects, burning rings, lightening and such. But this film is the sum of its jokes and even upon second viewing the jokes provided enormous delight
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Summary: original recipe the best
Review: Last year, the 1993 French film "Les Visiteurs" was remade for American audiences. "Just Visiting" retained its principal French actors, Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, and added the unremarkable TV actress Christine Applegate. I didn't see it on principle because remaking French films is as bad an idea as turning movies into Broadway shows.
The premise of the film is simple. A medieval nobleman (Reno) and his squire (Clavier) take a bad potion and are sent into the future. Before they can get back home, Comte Godefroy de Montmirail and his squire Jacquart have to adapt to modern day France. These scenes are pure candy. Just about anything Christian Clavier does produces intense laughter, whether he is eating a sandwich with the plastic wrap, making animal noises into a telephone, or scrambling on the floor for left-over potato scraps. Better still is watching Reno and Clavier attempt to master modern bathing. This is good, old-fashioned slapstick humor, and it works without insulting your intelligence. In the end, the plot of "Les Visiteurs" is incidental as the supporting characters. It involves some younglings and a search for a dungeon. There are some special effects, burning rings, lightening and such. But this film is the sum of its jokes and even upon second viewing the jokes provided enormous delight
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Summary: Who Cares About Subtitles?
Review: My husband kept bothering me to watch this movie, which I did not want to do because I HATE subtitled movies! I relented, and am glad I did. This movie is verrrry funny! A medieval French Nobleman is transported to the future with his servant. As stupid as this premise sounds, we really got caught up in the characters and how they react. We liked hearing it in French while reading the English subtitles. It makes it more believable. Jean Reno, who is also in "Godzilla" with Matthew Broderick, is a very good actor and we liked watching him. Actually, all the characters were cast perfectly. This movie is worth buying.
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Summary: Rare example of true French comedy
Review: No wonder this movie broke all records when it first came out in France. Not only is it one of the funniest ever, it provides among many other things a wonderful (and so realistic) parody of "Old French aristocracy" in today's French countryside. The movie is hillarious in itself but even more enjoyable if you speak French and can appreciate the wonderful snobbish accents and mannors, alongside parisian dialects. A real masterpiece.
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Summary: best french comedy i ever saw
Review: please take the time too watch this movie it will be fun for the entire familly clean humor garanty to make you laugh you will what to see it twice.
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Summary: The funniest foreign film I've seen.
Review: Seen on SBS Australia October 1999. Shown to the French classes at my school it is now very hot property and the library has had to purchase another copy. Reno's co-star (I don't know her name) is priceless. But how can this be rated 'R'?
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Summary: French Version Much Better
Review: The original movie "Les Visiteurs" is so good, its a pity they had to spoil with the Americanized version - "Just Visiting" - which is at best an insult on the intelligence of the American viewing public.Although the original movie is in French with English subtitles, they have done a tremendous job with the subtitles - translating a kind of "medieval" French into a comparable type of old English (modern swearwords included). In fact, the job is done so well that we had a lot of laughs just by comparing the film's verbal antics to the translation. Even though I do not speak French myself, it is quite clear that a lot of effort had gone into this. Sometimes the conversations are fast and furious, so it's worthwhile to see the movie a second time. Even on the second pass, there was a lot to laugh at. The original was meant to be slapstick and the story is a total farce, but I thought it was well done, and very well executed. Even though this whole thing is intended as a joke, the reactions of the medieval guys are quite believable. Both versions star Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, but unfortunately that is not enough to save "Just Visiting", which I can at best award two stars. In contrast, the original effort is a blast and worth at least 4 stars. If you can, try to obtain the French version. It's worth the trouble!
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