Every Wednesday night a few guys have a meal together. There is a game coupled with the meal: each one of them has to bring an "idiot". The game consists in making the idiots talk about their ideas and passions so that the hosts can have a good laugh. At the end they will choose the "idiot of the evening". One of the hosts has .. Read more
| Starring | Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prevost |
|---|---|
| Director | Francis Veber |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Every Wednesday night a few guys have a meal together. There is a game coupled with the meal: each one of them has to bring an "idiot". The game consists in making the idiots talk about their ideas and passions so that the hosts can have a good laugh. At the end they will choose the "idiot of the evening". One of the hosts has invited his idiot home so they could go to the dinner together, but unfortunately he gets a severe pain in his back due to an accident that day and can't go to the "meal of idiots". Even worse is the fact that the idiot tries to help him all the time, and naturally does everything wrong and aggravates every situation.
| Starring | Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Vandernoot, Catherine Frot |
|---|---|
| Director | Francis Veber |
| Studio | PATHE DISTRIBUTION LTD |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 17 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English, Cantonese, Chinese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1998 To Rent: DVD: 26 Sep 2005 |
Despite frequently betraying its stage origins, writer/director Francis Veber's splutteringly funny farce — a box-office hit in France — is a model of snowball comedy. From the moment publisher Thierry Lhermitte agrees to exhibit matchstick model-maker Jacques Villeret at one of his clique's “idiot dinners”, his idyllic existence begins to fall apart as this balding bundle of good intentions dismantles his deceptions with devastating artlessness. Lhermitte is admirably selfless as the despicable straight man, but Villeret has fashioned a masterly creation: a buffoonish descendant of Stan Laurel, Inspector Clouseau and Norman Wisdom whose every word and gesture have catastrophic consequences. One can only wait in trepidation for the imminent American remake.
42 out of 49 people found this review helpful
One for the subtitle-haters
For those of you who can't bare the though of having to watch a foreign film, and having to 'concentrate' on the subtitles, then get this DVD out.<... read more »
[Highly rated reviewer]
Brilliant film
Wow a funny film that's actually very funny.
Why can't so called hollywood big budget comedy films be like this.
Rent it pure, ... read more »
simple happy meal
genuinely amusing farce where a genuine innocent who attempts to do good brings unintented chaos in his wake. The fact that our innocent is meant to be the ... read more »
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0 out of 1 person found this review helpful
DNW on home DVD
did not work on any machine PC DVD laptop player, so ..................... who knows good film???
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