Forgoes the destructo silliness of the original in favor of one too many bland self help subplots.
Just Visiting
France, United States · 2001
Rated PG · 1h 28m
Director Jean-Marie Poiré
Starring Jean Reno, Christian Clavier, Christina Applegate, Matt Ross
Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham
Amusing enough.
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
A mess.
A happy vulgarity still reigns.
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
There ought to be a law about transporting humor internationally.
Don't even think of visiting this French fiasco.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Preserves the flavor of the original and even improves upon it.
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
A lot of it is low, crude, admittedly comic in the rudest positive sense, which involves a lot of falling down to humorous effect.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
I nodded off watching Just Visiting.
It does yield solidly comic performances.
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