38
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
3(12%)
mixed
14(56%)
negative
8(32%)
Showing 25 Critic Reviews
75
Preserves the flavor of the original and even improves upon it.
70
If you saw the French version, well, here it is, in Disney language, with John-Hughes-style slapstick.
63
Recycled French farce isn't a bad thing, but do they really like all those pratfalls?
By Loren King
60
A happy vulgarity still reigns.
60
A one-joke comedy that is good for more than a few good laughs.
58
Forgoes the destructo silliness of the original in favor of one too many bland self help subplots.
By Ty Burr
FULL REVIEW 50
It does yield solidly comic performances.
50
Amusing enough.
50
Over all, the humor has been sanitized a bit compared with the darker, more grotesque comedy of the French original.
50
Director Jean-Marie Gaubert, who also directed this film's French predecessor, keeps the silly story barreling along.
By Christine Dolen
