trananhtuan I love French comedy movies. They are always a bit silly and straight- forward at times, but for me it beats the nonsense and obscene you typically find in Hollywood's comedies. In those American movies, the characters are either too stupid, so stupid that they have no common sense at all, or they are just too smart that they response with carefully thought line that normal people would have taken a while to think of. And if you watch a lot of movies like me, these punchy lines are repeated over and over again. I remember I enjoyed this very movie when it aired on TV 10-20 years ago. I have a tendency not to re-watch movies, but I laughed so much when watching this movie again. It definitely earns my recommendation.

gavin6942 A medieval nobleman (Jean Reno) and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. He enlists the aid of his descendant to try to find a way to return home, all the while trying to cope with the cultural and technological changes distinguishing his time from ours.I had never heard of this film, but apparently Reno and Clavier reprised their roles in a sequel in 1998, the American remake "Just Visiting" in 2001 and a second sequel in 2016. So now I have more to see...This film is very much a cross between "Bill and Ted" and Monty Python, but still different enough to be very much its own film. I love the concept of going hundreds of years in the future to meet your offspring. That's clever. The humor is great, and I'm told it is even funnier if you speak French and don't have to rely on subtitles. (French is unfortunately not one of my better languages.)

leplatypus The two movies came in 1993 and if each one was a huge success, the two split totally in vision and production. This one is about what France does best, comedy and its long history! Usually, time travel is about going into the past and causing paradox while here it's about going into the future which is our present! A bit like "BTF", our heroes feel stuck and alien to their new environment and want to get back to their time-line. But the essential factors here are not the special effects that are rather crude but the cast and the idea to stick to country life that remains even today the real roots of France! Lemercier who isn't among the glamorous one is indeed exceptional as a catholic housewife of this rural elite! And for sure, for all who like French history, the meeting of old language and new speech is totally funny whereas we rather expected the same gap with the objects… So this comedy really embodies what's my country and is thus a must-see for all France lovers!

Amy Edwards This movie is just one of the funniest ones I've ever seen in my entire life. I still continue to laugh out loud each time I'm seeing this hilarious farce about time traveling.Just imagine that: 2 men from the middle ages, a French Knight hero and his raw squire, are mistakenly sent into modern France after a wizard messed up his potion. Struggling to understand what's happening to them, they met their respective descendants and transform their life into hell. You understand now that what's making this movie so hilarious are the many misunderstandings between Godefroy and Jacquouille on one hand and their descendants, Beatrice, Jean-Pierre and Jacquard on the other hand. It's also hilarious to see Godefroy and Jacquouille discovering the subtleties of modern life like cars, toilets and phones and that Jacquard, Jacquouille's descendant, is the actual owner of Godefroy's family castle, making Godefroy very angered and Jacquouille very proud of this unexpected shift.We can feel that the cast took a real blast during the shooting and I'm sure they burst of laughter during each scene. The good mood is contagious and it's definitely a movie to watch if you have a low day.