Just Visiting (DVD)

Just Visiting is a film from French writer-director Jean-Marie Poire with a rehash of his film Les Visiteurs. The film sees a 12th century night named Count Thibault of Malfete (Jean Reno) who mistakenly kills his beloved Princess Rosalind (Christina Applegate). Grief takes over Thibault and he enlists the help of a wizard (played by Malcolm McDowell) to take him back in time so that the princess will not die but the potion does not work as intended and Thibault along with his servant Andre (Christian Clavier) he is thrust into the future. Thibault and Andre now have to take on a 21st century Chicago where they meet Julia Malfete (Applegate) who is a museum ...  Read the complete review

This is a pretty dire film, Jean Reno(he of the amazing Leon) stars with another french bloke that was so unmemorable I can't remember his name. They were both in the original French version(I've seen that as well and it's okay, loads better than this English language version.) It's mainly directed at kids with lots of crude jokes, and the main focus of it is two medieval people who get transported to the future. They mistake a modern woman for there princess and get into all sorts of 'hilarious' problems in the modern world. I'm not going to give too much away (not that there is alot to give away), but if you still want to see this ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ The cinema goers in the “mad cabbie” household are myself and my wee eleven-year-old daughter, my wife not even being much of a TV fan, (apart from the soaps) never mind the cinema. So my daughter’s mid-term break from school found us scouring the listings for a decent movie to watch on a promised afternoon trip to our local UCI picture palace. Eventually this comedy, “Just Visiting”, was selected, if for no better reason than someone else in her class at school had told her it was really funny. The afternoon didn’t start well, as I had a half price discount coupon that I had secured on the Internet, and the lass at ...  Read the complete review