The Tuche 2 is not a film (critic)

The new rich of Bouzolles are leaving America. Behind the stereotypes, a rather pragmatic French comedy recipe.

In this suite released in 2016 and rebroadcast this evening on TF1 (the chain surfs on the 5th part’s theaters outing, God Save the Tuchedirected by Jean-Paul Rouve, this time), the new rich of Bouzolles are leaving for America. Behind the stereotypes, a rather pragmatic French comedy recipe.

In 2002, during the promotion of But who killed Pamela Rose,, Olivier Baroux had expressed the wish to make a film on a man whose dreams become reality, literally. And suddenly the nightmares too. An interesting idea on paper and above all an ambitious project that he said he wanted to carry out when he would be sure to have the sufficient means to give substance to the ideal he had in mind. We are in 2016 and after a fiddling with comedies released at a stakhanovist pace (Tonight I sleep with you,, Safari,, Italian,, We walked on Bangkok,, Friends…), the filmmaker realizes The Tuche 2 – The American dreamfollowing the film Tuche Released 5 years before.

Let’s quickly pass on the story: the script lies on a used metro ticket and the feature film does not hide it since it condenses the first opus in an intro of 5 minutes Summary of the previous episodes. The Tuche were poor and rustic, they won the lottery, they are now wealthy and still as rustic but have learned that the love we have in our hearts is more important than money. This time, it is no longer Monaco that they will mark with a hot iron but Los Angeles; And the “morality” of the film will remain exactly the same.

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Les Beaufs de France

If it does not frankly dream, we don’t have a bad time ahead The Tuche 2. Because Olivier Baroux’s comedy is not really a film, rather a sequence of sketches that recall several periods of the Comédie chain. Bancal, unequal, sometimes heavy, humor reaches his goal when he assumes as absurd as possible and detached from the constraints of realism – in clear, when the film no longer tries to be one.
Concretely the starting point is nonexistent, the intrigue also, the outcome is shipped in an incredible way and the characters are all gimmicks: the son Wannabe rapper who does not know how to speak correctly, the nunuche girl and her dreams of star, the Granny drunk and parents modeled on the famous “Beauf de France”. It is therefore not surprising to see that the roles of Jean-Paul Rouve and Sarah Stern are only cleansing versions of the Marcel des Sketches Radio Bière Foot and Mélanie de la Mini-Série Bertrand.çacom. Elsewhere, it would be a handicap. Elsewhere, that is to say in one of these countless comedies that make the mistake of believing that he can transform Sketch characters into cinema heroes (coconut, darling, disco, campsite …). The Tuche 2 Do not try to pretend to be what it is not – a film – but assumes its debility and its taste for the absurd and that’s what saves it. Besides, when the script falls back into the flaws of the first film and tries to set stakes, whatever they are, it is serious fault. Thus the moral dilemma of Donald, the youngest of the Tuche, the only character to have a semblance of a narrative arch, falls completely flat and finds himself the weakest element of the whole. No, what works in Tucheit’s Rouve in one-man permanent one with a infamous moumout on the head.

It would be futile to regret the project which seemed to motivate Olivier Baroux almost 15 years ago. Without targeting the masterpiece, by perfectly assuming his lack of cinematographic ambition, The Tuche 2 succeeds in being much more kind than a large part of French comic production.

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