I'm starting to think that French comedies are not my thing; this movie did not tickle my funny bone and neither did Trois Hommes Et Un Couffin, but I'll talk about that in another post. Les Visiteurs is one of the best examples of classic French comedy.
The film starts out in the Middle Ages or 'Le Moyen Age,' as I learned it was called. I read it with a New Jersey accent in my head. Basically, this nobleman likes this chick but accidentally shoots her father. Once he killed her father, she didn't really want to marry him anymore. He is all upset about this and employs a sorcerer to send him in the past to stop himself from killing the father. The wizard is a bit senile and accidentally sends the nobleman and his peasant to the future. They experience some major culture shock. They think the cars are horseless demon chariots.
I can attest to that
Soon they meet a homeless lady who helps move along the plot by knowing the descendants of the nobleman. She also is the love interest of the peasant.
yup, she's a keeper
They find the descendant and at first she thinks the nobleman is a crazy hobo. Then she thinks he could be her estranged cousin. She makes up this wild story that he lost all memory of the current time period through a race car accident. She keeps taking care of the nobleman and the peasant despite all their shenanigans. She is really the stupidest character in the movie and that's saying something with the characters who don't even know how to use a toilet. Anyway, the two main characters go on a search for the spell book to send them back to the past. They find it in the end, sort of...watch and find out. Actually, I wouldn't even bother if I were you.
Final rating: ****** (6 out of 10 stars)
This is it's rating on IMDB but Speed Racer also got that rating. I think this was better than Speed Racer. At least Les Visiteurs is not visual vomit.
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