Cy-By! New films are created, comedians change (Kolush, Bourville, De Funes, Richard, Depardieu), and the French comedy is unchanged for many years in Claude Zidy and Vladimir Cosma. And if these two take up their French comedy business, then everyone will get to fame... funny! So I once again thought so, when I anticipated not the most famous, but rather often replicated their work with the untimely departed Kolyush in the lead role.
"Banzai"
Already after the first minutes, albeit not with the most used and beloved in the cinema Kolush, a light hilarious comedy of positions was read. And it does not matter who is in the lead role – still expected fun and fun everywhere. Let, Kolush is not so eccentric as the partner of Valery Meress on "Umbrella Injection" Richard, but not in this and not in that catch: here the main thing is how everything will happen and the beginning, I must say, was famous. As usual.
It lasted quite standard fun in the best traditions of French comedy somewhere up to half the film, that is, before the trip to New York. A little later, a completely sudden and completely unclassical 180-degree turn begins, somewhere closer even to the absurd, not to the originality. If the first half resembled all the best and classic that was created on French soil, the second half, saturated not only with blood, but even sometimes with wild and cruel moments, turned into a parade of the impossible, and what is more important, acquired an inexplicable and illogical bias. Yes, just freaky screams and facial expressions of a drug-sniffed Asian pilot, landing on an aircraft carrier of a passenger airliner, a plane crash, an armed revolution with victims in Africa, drug trafficking in Hong Kong, unpleasant robbery in abandoned neighborhoods of Harlem - this is not just in common sense will not come, this is simply unthinkable even for absurd American black comedies, and what to say about French! I just had the feeling that this very coke was sniffed out by none other than Zidi, because to turn into disgusting and absolutely unnecessary fiction so cute and concisely started the film - but just "why?"!
At first – a beautiful, everyday, but already somewhat unusual and unpredictable French comedy, and in the end – such, sorry, a mess. For what? Why? I still don’t know what to think.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. If you want, it hurts me. How did it all start? . .
Quite an original idea about insurance companies and their routine, about a couple of Parisians in love, about the sudden diversity of life and about the intricacies of insurer life.
Well, the beginning is true! That's what I bet.
7 out of 10
(with a stretch of course)