The Dinner Game
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Movie Reviews of The Dinner Game
Movie Review: Laugh 'till I cried
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the funniest movies I have ever seen, and at age 50 I have seen them all. But to make a truly funny film you need to have moments of poignancy and this film has it all.
One of my 5 favorite films of the decade.
Movie Review: The Funnniest movie I've seen.
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't say enough about this movie. I laughed so much, it's truly a side slapping movie. It's the funniest movie I've seen in years. Rush out and buy it or rent it because you will laugh till you drop.Movie Review: The Dinner Game -- watch this for a hilarious evening
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is so funny! It has constant twists and sometimes you just want to yell into the screen ----NOOOOOOO!
Movie Review: Hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars
We rented it, but it is so brilliantly funny, we are buying it. Excellent script, acting and directing.Movie Review: A great gem of a movie
Summary: 4 Stars
After reading postive reviews on [Amazon.com] about this movie, I decided to check it out for myself. This is a great movie! The set up is as follows...a group of guys get together once a week and they have to bring the biggest idiot they can find to a dinner party. Whoever brings the biggest idiot wins. Thing is, the people who they consider idiots are completely unaware of the contest. This is similiar to college fraternities having an ugly girl contest, where each member has to find the ugliest girl they can, and bring her to the party.Anyway, Pierre Brochant, played by Thierry Lhermitte, finds what he believes is the all time supreme idiot in Francois Pignon, played by Jacques Villeret. Francois particular specialty is constructing elaborate replicas of famous landmarks out of toothpicks. Pierre, who is a publisher, invites Francois to the dinner under the guise of the possibility of doing a book with regards to his models. Francois meets Pierre at Pierre's apartment, and the comedy ensues. It's not slapsticky comedy, but intelligent fare, as we see a fairly detestable individual, Pierre, get what he deserves back in spades as things just keep going wrong. Francois appears to be a harmless, nebbish sort of fellow, but the more he tries to help his new 'friend' Pierre, the worse things just seem to get.
The pacing was excellent, and the humor right on the mark. Given the popularity of this movie in France, I wouldn't be suprised to see Hollywood attempt to remake this movie, but as we've seen before, so often these remakes tend to lose the charm and originality as American producers and executives decide how best to 'improve' on a movie because they are so in tune with what American audiences like.