God Save The Tuche on Canal Plus: what is the fifth part worth? (critical)

Rouve replaces Olivier Baroux as director and takes the family to England in Les Tuche 5.

Presented at the beginning of the year at the Alpe d’Huez Festival, God Save the Tuche arrives this Friday evening on Canal Plus (and streaming on MyCanal). The Bouzolle family arrives in England in this 5th part, directed by Jean-Paul Rouve, who did not convince the editorial staff of First.

Rouve replaces Olivier Baroux as director and takes the family to England, under the pretext of a football camp at Arsenal for the football prodigy, Jiji, the grandson.

The Tuches obviously have a hard time getting used to local customs (“ They smell like fish, their fries “, says Cathy over fish and chips in a pub) and protocol when they meet King Charles III (Bernard Menez, not bad at all) and Queen Camilla (Elise Larnicol, ex-Robin Hood). Elephants in a china shop which sometimes make you smile (Pierre Lotin’s light stupid act is always priceless) but are somewhat exhausting in the long term. A bit like the third film, where Jeff Tuche became president of France, God Save The Tuche is a series of bizarre situations vaguely linked together by the scenario.

We are not going to claim to have made a difference in terms of staging with the Baroux era, with the exception, perhaps, of a very cut edit which refuses any downtime. The valve factory is in overdrive and the cartoonish enthusiasm of the characters, signature of the franchise, is pushed into the red. Jean-Paul Rouve attempts here and there to insert absurd humor in the style of Les Nuls (Alain Chabat and Dominique Farrugia are also summoned, we’ll leave you the surprise) and this “robindesboisized” version of Tuche strangely makes Jeff lose the humanity that compensated for his stupidity. Rouve, possibly too busy with directing, transforms his main character into a sulky/blunderer who no longer has quite the altruism of his beginnings.

By Jean-Paul Rouve. With Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Nanty, Pierre Lottin… Duration: 1h34.