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Welcome to the Sticks operating at full blast on the candor of the characters and the lightness of a story originally devoid of pretension, the case of
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character portrayed by Kad Merad in 2008 when actor supporting roles become the darling of a time of French cinema, so much so that it was difficult during the next two years to find a movie without Kad Merad, Dany Boon introduces an asshole here first, customs psychotic trigger-happy, xenophobic and more particularly anti-French, played wonderfully by Benoit Poelvoorde, experienced player who suffered most auspicious hours.
the buddy-movie , then it forks to the duo of characters are total opposites, and of course can not PIFF. Usually this kind of story ends with a reconciliation between the two thieves who learn to endure and change just enough of each side to get there, and this moreover when a comedy public. Here we speak more consensus, and no need to seek the evolution of souls: the nice and stay nice asshole asshole remain. It may be bias as dicey ever been able to Dany Boon, and we do not count either the number of secondary characters Lourens, or downright racist reaction
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Where his previous film was surfing on the cartoons to crumple nicely, it is reasonable to ask whether it is playing through foul-smelling or if its protagonists has to use it with reckless doubtful. If the rest of the film uses the same mechanical comic
Welcome to the Sticks , thanks to a well oiled gear and as effective as it is not refined, and a backdrop of intrigue drug trafficking a bit wobbly and gently futile.
So of course we let him go to smile or even laugh at jokes, and some dialogs that score, but the underlying darkness will tend to dissonant in places and congest the zygomatic, bringing doubt on the sincerity of a popular comic starts leering dangerously toward the redneck.
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Nothing to declare Dany Boon - 1:48 - Released: 02/02/2011 (pre-North exit and Belgium: 26/01/2011) in Pathé