It's a sequel and its aficionados say they laughed even more than with the first.
Gags at will, a breathtaking rhythm, impeccable replicas, this story of "
Fifi's gang
" is breaking all the records of director-actor Philippe Lacheau.
In just six weeks of operation, this good light comedy attracted just over 3.6 million viewers.
Philippe Lacheau, who likes to flirt brilliantly on fashionable themes such as failed marriages and the always delicate encounters with the lovebirds' parents-in-law, sees his talent as a screenwriter rewarded here.
Its main cinematographic competitor,
Asterix and Obelix: the Middle Kingdom
, has only one million spectators in advance (4.5 million seats sold).
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by Philippe Lacheau in 2023, with Philippe Lacheau, Élodie Fontan, Tarek Boudali, Julien Arruti, Nathalie Baye...
The director-actor (the first role in the film with Élodie Fontan, his companion in the city) has reinvented a kind of magic potion of the opposite for this sequel to
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He was particularly inspired by comedies, which in his childhood made the authors of his days cry with joy: “
It was when I saw my parents laughing in front of the films of Pierre Richard and Francis Veber that I said to myself: “ That's what I want to do!”
".
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Finally, no good comedies without good actors.
To win his gamble on the popular galéjade worthy of the works of Jerry Lewis and Louis de Funès, Philippe Lacheau gathered around him an exceptional cast.
Excuse the little: Tarek Boudali, Julien Arruti, but also Nathalie Baye, Gérard Jugnot, Gad Elmaleh, Catherine Benguigui (hilarious in an amazing running gag)... are having a great time here.
With a troupe like that, Philippe Lacheau is already thinking of
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