Enjoyable and funny
Added 8/9/2009
The first time I saw Depardieu and Richard team up was in the 1981 film La Chevre, which became a Worldwide hit as one of the funniest films. It had a few weaknesses, like the gorilla in Mexico, which suggested that the makers were not totally serious in striving to make a perfect film and did not expect it to become such a huge hit. Yet, La Chevre was a comedy magic.
Thus, I was excited to see the next Depardieu - Richard collaboration, the 1983 Les Comperes. Alas, I was somewhat disappointed. Les Comperes is not as funny, nor as engaging as La Chevre. I had the feeling that Depardieu and Richard did not quite have their hearts in it. It almost felt like a sequel. Depardieu again played the bully and Richard again was the nerd. Although the main story is great, many of the comic scenes were reworked versions from La Chevre. Further, the supporting cast was not as good as in La Chevre. In particular, the actor playing Tristan, the son that run away, did not fit and was not believable.
If you have not seen La Chevre, you will find Les Comperes enjoyable and better than most comedies.
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A must-have if you like Richard-Depardieu movies
Added 6/23/2009
This movie is another jewel of the Richard-Depardieu partnership. Those two are great together! Can't imagine this movie being the same without them.
A mom, whose son has run away, finds her two ex-boyfriends and tells each one of them separately that the boy is his. She asks them to help her find him. The adventures of the Daddies are hilarious!
Light, cute, pleasant comedy with a happy ending. Highly recommend.
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My face hurt
Added 11/12/2008
My face hurt I laughed so much and so hard at this movie. Absolutely delightfully hilarious.
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Very funny at parts but kind of slapstick
Added 1/22/2006
I wouldn't call this a subtly witty movie, but there were times when I laughed out loud. There were other times when I thought it was predictable and the humor just too broad.
As usual, Depardieu is very funny, but Pierre Richard is equally funny. Depardieu and Richard have both been told that they are the father of a runaway teenager -- the mother figures if they think it's their kid, they'll go looking for him and bring him back. Her husband -- the kid's father - isn't doing anything. Eventually they realize they are both possibly the kid's father (or so they think) so they team up to look for him -- in Nice, where Depardieu is investigating corruption in the casinos. Depardieu is a rough newspaper reporter, whereas Richard is a depressed ex-schoolteacher, so you have the odd-couple thing going.
There's a lot of broad, tough guy humor -- cars getting vandalized, gangsters stalking Gepardieu & Richard, teenage hoodlums, fist fights, that sort of thing. But although that sort of thing isn't usually what I enjoy, some of it did make me laugh out loud.
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Les Compères
Added 2/4/2004
Les Comprères is a must for French classrooms. Students 7th through 12th laugh hysterically at the comical duo of Depardieu and Richard!
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Great comedy
Added 6/23/2009
Excellent French film, great actors. Pierre Richard is one of my favorites. The movie is funny and a little naive (as all older movies are), but excellent entertainment for the whole family. May not be quite appropriate for younger kids, as there are some weapons and drug hints, as well as scenes of night life. I'd rate it as PG13. It was one of my favorite movies when I was in my teens.
Francois Perrin (Pierre Richard) is a very sweet, shy and extremely unlucky person who works as an accountant. The president of the company where he is employed has a daughter who also has unusually bad luck. When she disappears during her vacation in Mexico, the distraught father sends Perrin to accompany a private detective Campana (Gerard Depardieu) in search of her, hoping that a person as unlucky as she is will be able to retrace her steps and find her! The hilarious adventures of the two will make you want to watch this movie again!
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Idiot's delight
Added 9/10/2006
Remade less successfully as Pure Luck, the first of Pierre Richard and Gerard Depardieu's three teamings for writer-director Francis Veber, La Chevre is still the best of the bunch. Richard's the idiot accountant assigned to find a missing girl in South America simply because he's every bit as accident-prone as she is, while Depardieu's the worldly private eye who has to pretend to be working for him while really running the case and trying to keep him out of trouble. You can pretty much fill in the gaps from there, but that doesn't make it any less funny. Richard's pratfalls work not just because they're unsensationally directed rather than heavily telegraphed (one even takes place out of focus in the background) but because, like Clouseau, Richard's character doesn't know he's a clumsy idiot. In fact, he thinks he's the epitome of cool and control. But it's Depardieu who really makes the film, his underplayed exasperation and beautiful reaction shots easily the funniest thing in the film, especially as he realises with increasing fatalism that Richard's bad luck is starting to rub off.
Kino's DVD transfer suffers from being a standards conversion from PAL, which is acceptable but has some blurring not present on the Australian DVD (where the film is also available on a triple-disc set with Les Comperes and Les Fugitifs).
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Just to have fun
Added 12/4/2005
It is a good movie, not a great one, but it still follows an original line. A CEO sends an employee -Pierre Richard -, to find his kidnapped daughter in Mexico. He has been advised to choose him because the employee has such a bad luck, as his daughter has, that he is forcefully going to fall in the same traps and, sooner or later, in the same place than her beloved child. Gerard Depardieu does not believe in such argument and has to make a team with the bad-luck guy. Together, they will made a great team. Hillarious, entertaining and fun !.
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