I came to this movie a total City Hunter virgin, I'm not into anime all that much, I'm not a huge Jackie Chan fan so I missed his adaptation completely, and I'm not French, so it's history as French 90's TV show is frankly redundant to me. I did not recognise the characters, the nods to the overall franchise or the French topical or cultural jokes.
What I do recognise however is a perfectly crafted comedy when I see one, and this is simply one of the funniest films I've seen in many years. I laughed and I laughed hard.
Like me, anybody should be able to view this film without any prior knowledge of the source material and enjoy it as a stand alone movie.
Yes, It's a bit smutty in places, but no smuttier than say a Carry on movie employing the same kind of bawdy humour. The action sequences are exaggerated to an almost cartoonish degree and some of scenarios and action tends to fall on the side of good old fashion slapstick, but this is WHY it's a good film. It doesn't take itself too seriously and it's supposed to be laughed at. It why a film like this transcends language and culture. It's fun for everybody.
Even the plot is a little corny, a private eye, is hired to track down a dangerous perfume, that has fallen into the wrong hands that makes the wearer sexually irresistible to all who smell it.
Well done however to Director, writer and leading man Philippe Lacheau, who could have taken such a premise into the realms of soft porn or more explicit vulgarity but chose not to, instead finding the right balance between, comedy, action, suggestive innuendo and romance.
I'm sure there are some aspects of the story that would tweak the nose of a few of our more 'woke' campaign groups, but seeing that these peoples main purpose is to hoover the fun out of pretty much everything, who cares about them? Nicky Larson is such fun, such a non stop laugh fest, they couldn't suck the fun out of it with 1000 hoovers.
Highly recommended.
What I do recognise however is a perfectly crafted comedy when I see one, and this is simply one of the funniest films I've seen in many years. I laughed and I laughed hard.
Like me, anybody should be able to view this film without any prior knowledge of the source material and enjoy it as a stand alone movie.
Yes, It's a bit smutty in places, but no smuttier than say a Carry on movie employing the same kind of bawdy humour. The action sequences are exaggerated to an almost cartoonish degree and some of scenarios and action tends to fall on the side of good old fashion slapstick, but this is WHY it's a good film. It doesn't take itself too seriously and it's supposed to be laughed at. It why a film like this transcends language and culture. It's fun for everybody.
Even the plot is a little corny, a private eye, is hired to track down a dangerous perfume, that has fallen into the wrong hands that makes the wearer sexually irresistible to all who smell it.
Well done however to Director, writer and leading man Philippe Lacheau, who could have taken such a premise into the realms of soft porn or more explicit vulgarity but chose not to, instead finding the right balance between, comedy, action, suggestive innuendo and romance.
I'm sure there are some aspects of the story that would tweak the nose of a few of our more 'woke' campaign groups, but seeing that these peoples main purpose is to hoover the fun out of pretty much everything, who cares about them? Nicky Larson is such fun, such a non stop laugh fest, they couldn't suck the fun out of it with 1000 hoovers.
Highly recommended.