Review of Welcome to the Sticks

Well, being French, I can only feel very sorry that this minor production becomes the most successful French movie ever. What a poor image for the French cinema...I'm still wondering how we have ended up which such a situation. This success is just crazy and inexplicable. We have to be honest : this movie is far far away from the best French comedies, and this for many reasons : the actors are mediocre, the jokes are redundant and foreseeable, the whole thing is just commonplace, the love story is soppy...etc...Sometimes you smile, but very rarely you laugh; and quite often you feel embarrassed, since the scene just doesn't work. I was with my girlfriend, she felt exactly the same. And having discussed it with other people, most of them do not understand either. A good advice : avoid it, and go back to true classics of the French comedy : le dîner de cons, les Bronzés, la grande vadrouille, les Visiteurs...