The Dinner Game
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Movie Reviews of The Dinner Game
Movie Review: Hilarious even with subtitles!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is in French with English subtitles (I ordered it from here). It is one of the funnies French movies I have ever seen. My husband, who does not speak french and doesn't usually enjoy French movies, even loved it! The humor did not get lost in translation. I also enjoy Thierry Lhermitte very much, and he is one of the main characters in this film. I teach French and I showed this film to my students (PG-13 french films are hard to come by) -- they loved it! The did wish there was a sequel however... ;) Worth buying at such an inexpensive price and adding it to your collection!Movie Review: The Dinner Game (Le Diner de Cons)
Summary: 5 Stars
This is by far the funniest French movie ever released (at least in my humble opinion). This comedic masterpiece is the result of an extremely well written script where the comedy arises from the different situations and the sequence of events rather than from slapstick or clowning comedy that produces an instantaneous laughter gratification that is forgotten afterwards.
The movie was meant to be watched and understood in its original language to truly be enjoyed. Although the movie has English subtitles, you will not like it as much if you do not understand French well.
Movie Review: Transcendently funny
Summary: 5 Stars
The review by displacedhuman accurately describes the plot. No description, however, can adequately convey how hilarious this movie is. All of the action takes place in the swank apartment of the protagantist, who is ultimately reduced to admiting that the idiot he has invited to dinner has human qualities that cannot be vouchsafed. On the way to this realization, though, our poor hero is betrayed again and again by the stupidity of his idiot. The pinnacle comes when the idiot's workmate (who else?) discovers who's wife is sleeping with whom. Worth twice the price Amazon is charging.Movie Review: YES ! HILARIOUS FRENCH COMEDY !
Summary: 5 Stars
I totally agree with H. Berry's title : "Hilarious French Comedy" and I have no choice but plagiarize. I purchased the DVD recently and I spent some funny 72 minutes watching it last night. Today, I feel happy that I read the Berry review after and not before: IMO, he is giving away too much of the story. But it didn't stop me from clicking the first YES vote.
The sad news: With the film and its actors still in my mind, I did some research: Jacques Villeret, the funny "con" (idiot) of the movie, committed suicide since. Being a great comedian is no guarantee for happiness.
Movie Review: wildly funny
Summary: 5 Stars
If you can handle subtitles (or if you speak French fluently) this is one of the funniest movies ever made. It's a great French farce ... which only the French can do. Let's face, "The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe" was extemely funny, while the American version ("The Man with One Red Shoe") was moderately humorous. Americans can't make French farces.
But "The Dinner Game" just keeps building. It's very slow at first but, it's hold your sides because they hurt from laughing by the end.
Remember though, it is subtitled.