A good movie

First of all, it is interesting to point out that the original title literal translation is not ‘the Dinner game’ or ‘Dinner of Schmucks’ but in fact ‘The Dinner of Cunts’. I always found it pretty nice that the French were never too skirmish to put a naked lady of some really foul language on their movie posters. Anyway, when I lived in France, this movie was a huge success when it was released. Personally, except for the rather subversive title, I didn't care much about the whole thing as it looked really stupid and it took me a while to finally watch it. If I'm not mistaken, the first time I eventually saw it, I was completely stoned out of my mind so I wasn't really able to judge it. Eventually, I saw it a second time around and I thought it was actually not bad at all. I mean, don't misunderstand me, it was far from being a masterpiece whatsoever but I have to admit it , it was indeed pretty funny. It is above all thanks to the late Jacques Villeret that it did work. Indeed, all the other characters were rather spineless and uninteresting but he managed to make his character stupid but somehow also friendly and above all constantly hilarious. Later on, they would make an American remake called ‘Dinner of Schmucks’ but even though they cast Steve Carell as the new ‘cunt’, it was really underwhelming. To conclude, even though I don’t think it was really great at all, this original version was still a solid comedy and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.

7/10