Forgoes the destructo silliness of the original in favor of one too many bland self help subplots.
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.