Let me preface this by saying I don't remember the entire movie. I was but a child when I first saw it but the scenes I do remember stick well in my mind.
The story is of a French Canadian family who don't speak English going on a trip through Canada and shenanigans happen. But these are always because of a language barrier.
You really need to be Quebecois or at least have lived there for a while to truly get it.
One of the running gags is the father trying to speak to somebody using a French - English phrasebook. In fact in one scene another man tries to have the same conversation with him and the gas station attendant using the same phrasebook.
There's when the family drives onto a military testing field and when the father is mistaken for a high ranking French individual. He of course understands nothing but he makes a speech at a meeting or a banquet full of passion and asking if these people take him for a fool. Or course nobody understands him and they just clap politely.
Finally, they return to Quebec having left the craziness of English Canada behind only when they stop and ask for directions the only people that are answering them are themselves English speakers.
Le plus ça change, le plus c'est la même chose.
The story is of a French Canadian family who don't speak English going on a trip through Canada and shenanigans happen. But these are always because of a language barrier.
You really need to be Quebecois or at least have lived there for a while to truly get it.
One of the running gags is the father trying to speak to somebody using a French - English phrasebook. In fact in one scene another man tries to have the same conversation with him and the gas station attendant using the same phrasebook.
There's when the family drives onto a military testing field and when the father is mistaken for a high ranking French individual. He of course understands nothing but he makes a speech at a meeting or a banquet full of passion and asking if these people take him for a fool. Or course nobody understands him and they just clap politely.
Finally, they return to Quebec having left the craziness of English Canada behind only when they stop and ask for directions the only people that are answering them are themselves English speakers.
Le plus ça change, le plus c'est la même chose.
