I should really hold back whenever I have the urge to watch an entertaining truyl funny French comedy. Most of the recent ones tocome out if France have all been a real disappointment. Money for film making in France (avec la participation de... etc.) is obviously still too easy, allowing filmmakers to to churn out these utterly predictable and stuck in an old fashioned and insularly French (maybe it's the same thing) way of humor: Red neck French family with voluntarily out of work dad (only the French would find that endearingly funny anymore these days as a concept) gets rich through the lottery. They leave for their dreamland Monaco (either the filmakers' budget or fantasy did not stretch beyond the borders of France - probably both. Why would paradise be anything else than this overcrowded built-up section of French coast line?!) where they are predictably at odds with establishment - the ritzy hotels, the local country club, the rich neighbors. But of course they bring some true French working class family values and rough charm into the mix which rubs off on the locals who find it all heart warming and sincere - at least some of them. The rest is a comletely unlikely and made-to work to get to the end of the film clap-trap plot. There are a few useless side plots with politically correcct messages embedded (multi racial and homosexual France celebrating openness and tolerance... really?!). The culminatin of this fairly tale is that they end up happy in their old hole-in-the-wall village with enough money to buy the local factory and introduce the 4hr working day. This film says more about the state of mind of its script writers and directors and the French psyche than anything you'll read on the political pages of le Figaro these days. And it's this overburdened with clichés of the good old days film making that makes this film hard to enjoy. For the really funny and less contrived films you're better off watching The Closet with Daniel Ateuil andGerard Dépardieu, Jet lag with Juliette Bnoche and Jean Reno or, if you ant to stay on the Riviera, Hors Prix - Priceless with Audrey Tatou.

Good french comedy, great acting from Jean Paul Rouve, in summary i hope you laugh as much as i did. I give it a 4 mark and not a 5 because the movie does make it to the french comedies hall of fame (e.g. Dinner Game, Les Visiteurs, Les Tontons Flingueurs, Louis de Funes...)

Wow, I didn't see this one coming! Great premise and great execution with a top performance by Jean-Paul Rouve, in my opinion the most underrated french comedian. This film is in the league of The Dinner Game in the neverending exploration of human stupidity...great stuff!