With Lucky, luck has a hard time smiling at Olivier Van Hoofstadt

Fourteen years after the goofy Dikkenek , Olivier Van Hoofstadt rediscovers the comic register with his new film Lucky . The Belgian director's third feature features two friends who are mired in financial support, played by Michaël Youn and Alban Ivanov, whose main objective is to settle their debts. A complex mission which gives them the idea of ​​stealing a detection dog from the Narcotic Brigade, the aptly named Lucky. Already in the casting of Dikkenek , Florence Foresti returns to the Lucky team of actors, this time in the role of a corrupt policewoman. Corinne Masiero, François Berléand and Daniel Prévost are also part of this comedy that divides the critics.

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A comedy led foot to the floor

For Le Parisien , comedy hits the bull's eye. The daily welcomes a film " electric and full of ideas ". Presented this year in official competition at the Alpe d'Huez international comedy film festival, Lucky is a " delightful surprise ". The critic goes so far as to split a piece of advice for the spectator: " If you want a comedy that does not throw powder at the eyes, this one is pure ".

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More nuanced, Le Journal du Dimanche criticizes Olivier Van Hoofstadt's film for being " sometimes uneven and deliberately outrageous ". The weekly, however, savored this " crazy " police comedy led foot to the floor ", with" crazy energy ". If the duo Michaël Youn and Alban Ivanov managed to convince the critic, he addressed a special mention to Florence Foresti, " irresistible as a tough and corrupt cop ".

A plot and winding gags

The humorous pirouettes of the actors' skewers struggle to seduce Première . " The actors are pushed to force the line to snatch laughs, " laments Thierry Chèze. The plot is not more appreciated by the critic. " The story skates, the expected situations are linked, the gags fall flat ". A disappointment for this return to the comedy of the director of Dikkenek , awaited with " impatience ". The first few minutes, when “ humor and humor meet ,” are not enough to raise the bar. " No doubt the wait was too high, " concludes the critic.

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" At this price, it is not too difficult to persuade the spectator of his intellectual superiority ", attacks Jacques Mandelbaum du Monde . The critic is merciless for Lucky and his myriad of characters. " Two shabby bottom of the forehead, a corrupt police inspector, a nymphomaniac bourgeois, a dodgy dealer are thus united around a tenuous intrigue ," he writes. In Lucky , protagonists, script and humor seem to be only "a pretext for a general competition of imbecile mediocrity ".