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I have been a fan of French director Jean-Pierre Juenet since I saw 'The City Of Lost Children'. He is an excellent director with a stunningly visual style. As evidenced with this film.

Juenet has a very visual style and creates a version of France that while looks real is really more a fairytale style version of France. He uses a soft focus to make it all look sweet. This film is a brilliant visual comedy. The story is very simple with a guy getting revenge on people for ruining his life and it is done in a very funny way. It is reminiscent of a silent film comedy with there being very little use for dialogue in the film. The Juenet and is co-writers have created many hilarious situations for the hero Bazil and his new found team of friends, to get themselves into. They are well constructed to get lots of laughs out of them.

I first saw French actor Dany Boon in the film 'Welcome To The Sticks' a couple of years ago. It was one of those films that lost something in the translation. A very French film that you needed to be French to understand better. However the comedy he is doing here is more universal. As a result he is excellent. His looks and performance remind me a lot of American actor Jason Segal. I could easily imagine them playing brothers in a film one day. The rest of the cast are excellent too with some great moments from each of them.

Do not let the fact that this is a French film put you off seeing it. There is very little dialogue as most of the humour is visual so you don't have to worry about reading the subtitles to understand the story.