davidvpcol Simple? Yes. Funny? Yes. Effective? Sure. This is a humble but yet very very funny movie. The earnest Jean Reno at his finest comedy bringing his bad man face into akward situations. Is very very hard to find a movie in which you can laugh at least 5 min, so this is not THE movie, but fulfills it's porpoise. Jean Reno the serious and Youn the funny optimistic guy is a much seen combination, but surely enjoyable. You won't regret watching it

sergelamarche I was not expecting anything more than smiles, but midway I could not repress my laugh. The story is not following the straight path and is hilarious enough with some bon mots here and there. A TV comedy that holds on 6 years after release.

Guy THE CHEF continues the French tradition of romanticising the production of food to the nth degree, but with jokes. The plot sees a wannabe chef - who keeps getting fired because people only want chips - get hired by the celeb chef he idolises in order to win around some food critics who hate his traditionalist food because if he loses a star the CEO can fire the celeb chef and replace him with an English (of course) chef who does...molecular cooking (yuck). Unfortunately the lead's pregnant gal wants him to get a proper job outside cooking, whilst the celeb's daughter wishes he would pay more attention to her upcoming thesis defence than his kitchens. It doesn't take a genius to work out what happens next but the result is funny enough (and the film at eighty minutes pithy enough) to sustain the result. The highlight sees the the two chefs try to infiltrate a rival chef's restaurant by posing as a Japanese couple in kimonos...

Victoria Weisfeld OK, so the critics didn't much like this frothy French comedy directed by Daniel Cohen, but the French can serve up a blundering wunderkind better than anyone else. Aspiring chef Jacky (Michaël Youn) is called in to save the day for the three-star wonder Alexandre Lagarde (Jean Reno), who may be on the verge of losing a coveted rating star and his restaurant in the bargain. There's never a moment's doubt how any of the plot lines will resolve, but it's the whole meal that makes this movie fun. It was released summer 2014 in the United States around the same time as the American comedy Chef, which created some box office confusion. Sweet and light as a perfect dessert soufflé, this French offering is a good antidote to, say, the Nightly News. Curmudgeonly Rotten Tomatoes critics gave it a mere 48% rating, but audiences liked it more (59%). Said Moira MacDonald in the Seattle Times: Le Chef may not be a masterpiece, but it's nonetheless a treat. Some days, that's just right.