C'est pas Moi, C'est L'autra

In French (2004)

This is a light romantic comedy with broad, physical humor.  I laughed out
loud several times, and enjoyed it all the way to the end.

Roy Dupuis plays Vincent Papineau, an inept burglar who accidentally runs
afoul of the Marseilles Mafia.  As he is trying to evade them, he cuts his
hair and shaves his beard, and is promptly mistaken for a cop named Claude
Laurin.  With bad guys chasing him and Claude conveniently away on an
extended vacation, Vincent takes over Claude's job and apartment and
romances his pretty partner on the force, while trying to figure out how to
appease the Mafia and benefit financially from the whole situation.

Even though you can see a lot of the situations coming a mile off,
(particularly when Claude finally shows up, as we know he will), this movie
is a lot of fun.  Although I prefer him doing drama, Roy can definitely
handle comedy and he is charming and funny in both roles.  One of my
perennial complaints about many of Roy's movies is that there isn't enough
of him, but I can't say that here.  Roy is in almost every scene of this
movie.  Sometimes twice.

I would like to complain about the lack of English subtitles on the DVD,
though.  Yes, this is a joint Quebec/France production, but Roy Dupuis is a
Canadian star.  Isn't Canada a major market for this movie?  What were they
thinking?  I know enough French to follow the plot and I think it's fairly
easy to understand what's going on even if you don't speak French, but I
still would like to catch all of the subtleties.

Lots of fun.  Three out of four stars,

Billie
http://www.billiedoux.com/