david-161-28390 This is my wife & my favorite comedy ever. Danny boon has directed some side-splitting comedies in the past, but this is his joint best alongside "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis"...in our opinion. I like the fact that there is no sexism, no nudity, no crudeness - just laugh-out-loud comedy at its best. It addresses the issue of racism in such an unpretentious way - and it gets the message across so well. All the acting is great - but particularly watch out for Zoé Félix who moves from depressed cannot-possibly-be-pleased wife to the opposite slowly over the film in an almost unnoticed way since she does not play a lead role.This film is one of the very few that I have seen more than once. Enjoy!

karl braun Even if the movie "Bienvenue chez les ch'tis" was a major hit in France I have to confess that it didn't really make me laugh. "Rien à déclarer" was in my opinion way better. This movie is kinda "buddy movie" which focus on the hatred that opposes Dani Boon (the french customs officer) and the always brilliant Benoit Poelvoorde (the Belgian officer). The angle used to oppose those two characters may look a bit basic but that's what makes the spectator believing the story. The movie is pretty good for the beginning till the end and the full cast is great. François Damiens had his little craziness for our own pleasure. Poelvoorde is the main character and is the one that makes this movie above average and trust me that Benoit pulls this waayy above average he makes it great ! If you like comedy and want to have your 2 hours of relaxation, this movie will delight you. Another good move from director Dani Boon. Enjoy !

benjones-11 The simplest way to summarise this film is to say that it is the equivalent of a B-side of Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis. I found the latter film amusing, but there are many, many French films which do better at providing comedy and a sense of heart-warming, and so it is still a mystery to me how it became France's most successful film of all time. Rien à déclarer has basically taken the same idea (a comedy which focuses on the negative stereotypes of northern France/Belgium) and then repeated it - with less skill. There are amusing moments, but too few and too far between. They are strongly outweighed by overacted slapstick and jokes which are schoolyard style at best. It would possibly have worked better if it had been aimed at all of the family, so that the children could watch a film which uses such childish humour. However, they ruined this opportunity by including scenes of drugs, violence and even nudity, with plenty of swearing! A bizarre decision to exclude such an audience! If you are considering this one, but haven't yet seen Bienvenu chez les ch'tis, then I would strongly recommend you chose the latter. If you have seen the latter, and are hoping to find the same thing with this Dany Boon offering, I would suggest you will only be disappointed.

writers_reign ... the old stories and Danny Boon in his fourth At Bat reaches back to the Bard for one of the main strands of his latest triple threat entry, the star-crossed lovers from two rival Houses except the rivals are not so much Houses as countries, France and Belgium respectively. After shooting a video Boon made an auspicious debut behind the camera with Maison du bonheur which was eclipsed - in popularity if not necessarily in content - with Welcome To The Sticks which swept all before it and quickly became the biggest grosser of all time in France. 'Sticks' capitalized on rural quirkiness and either Boon himself or some entrepreneur frightened by a Hollywood Producer clearly decreed that there's gold in tham thar sticks so that here we have yet another wide part in the road with the crucial difference that this jerkwater town also straddles the border between France and Belgium and with Custom Offices tumbling like harness makers xenophobia will soon be a thing of the past. Striving for authenticity Boon has cast some bone fide Belgian actors in the shape of Benoit Pooleverde and Olivier Gourmet. The latter achieved success as a comedian in the Lous de Funes mould then switched equally successfully to straight roles viz Entre ses mains and is now back in his natural habitat as a French-hating Belgian Customs official. Trouble is his sister Louise is in love with his Frnech counterpart, Boon and vice versa. Their simmering rivalry is brought to a head when, on the eve of closure, they are teamed against their will as a task force to combat smuggling. There are chuckles if not exactly belly laughs a plenty and Karin Viard gets a chance to leave the fragile plain Janes behind and take on the kind of role that Francoise Rosay used to play back in the thirties. All in all it's a pleasant diversion but not necessarily one you'd buy on DVD.