God Save the Tuche: What is this fifth part worth? (critical)

A month after opening the Alpes d’Huez Comedy Festival, the Tuche 5 arrives in our rooms. So what are these adventures of the Bouzollais in England worth?

A month ago, the Alpe d’Huez festival opened, chaired this year by Elsa Zylberstein this year and it was Jean-Paul Rouve who opened this 2025 edition with his film God Save the Tuche. Today, Bouzolle’s family arrives in the rooms for this 5th part which takes place across the Channel for a pudding embellished with fries. So should we go and have tea with them?

Rouve replaces Olivier Baroux to the realization and takes the family to England, under the pretext of a football internship in Arsenal for the prodigy of the ball, Jiji, the grandson.

Tuche Obviously have a hard time doing local customs (” They smell poison, their fries », Let go Cathy in front of a Fish and Chips taken in an ad) and in the protocol when they meet King Charles III (Bernard Menez, not bad at all) and Queen Camilla (Elise Larnicol, ex-woods of the woods). Elephants in a porcelain store that sometimes lends to smile (the light stupid number of Pierre Lotin is always unpaid) but exhaust somewhat in the long term. A bit like the third film, where Jeff Tuche became president of France, God Save the Tuche is a sequence of gagged situations vaguely linked to each other by the scenario.

We are not going to pretend to have made the difference in terms of staging with the Baroux era, with the exception, perhaps, of a very cut montage which refuses any time dead. The factory in Vannes is overwhelmed and the cartoonian fiery of the characters, signature of the franchise, is pushed into the red. Jean-Paul Rouve is trying here and there to insert an absurd humor way the dummies (Alain Chabat and Dominique Farrugia are also summoned, we leave you the surprise) and this “RobindesBoisized” version of the Tuche Strangelyly lost in Jeff Humanity who compensated for his stupidity. Rouve, possibly too busy by the realization, transforms his main character into a louder/gaffeur who no longer has the altruism of his beginnings.

Of Jean-Paul Rouve. With Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Nanty, Pierre Lottin … Duration: 1h34. Release on February 5, 2025