Comedy films in France are different from comedy films made elsewhere in the world.This is because the French look at humor is different from the way it is approached in other parts of the world.In the past Buster Keaton and Max Linder were great comic artists but there was a marked difference in their comic styles.French comedy is a kind of comedy mixed with a fair doses of intellectualism,seriousness whereas American/British comedy is a pure comedy entirely dependent on funny, comic situations.One has to watch most of the Woody Allen films to see that effect.French humor involves auto derision which is similar to Italian humor but it bears no resemblance to other types of humor practiced in the world.Un ticket pour l'espace is a hilarious french comedy film directed by Eric Lartigau.Although space travel happens to be one of the major themes of the film,writers of this film Kad Merad and Olivier Baroux use all of their available imagination to the maximum possible level to give us a funny concoction of silly life of a failed actor,stupid males falling over a beautiful woman and a criminal brother taking revenge.The result is a laugh riot where we learn why space travel is becoming more and more popular.This is a perfect film which might give some ingenuous ideas to Sir Richard Branson to commercialize space travel.
3 Reviews
A good, hearty laugh
paul-15811 February 2006
Get passed the not-so-subtle parody moments (2001, Armageddon, Alien, etc...). This flick is a sure crowd pleaser. Not since Airplane! have I laughed so hard watching a spoof. Not since Hot Shots fine actors have done such a good job at playing low-key. As in other movies of the sort, the bigger gags tend to fall flat and it's the little jokes that get the louder laughs. Sure, the filmmakers show off a little with CG FX, but they never take themselves seriously. The whacked out humor never gets heavy and at times the writers even try themselves at cynicism and poetry without ever bloating their work. Always absurd, never disappointing.
Mankind about to walk on the surface of the sun
myriamlenys1 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
France, in the near future. The taxpayers aren't happy about the large amounts of money thrown at space exploration. In order to avoid protests, a country-wide contest is organized. The two winners, both of them ordinary citizens, will be allowed to participate in a space mission. In due time two very different individuals show up. One of them seems very much like the right stuff : healthy, articulate, intelligent and keen. However, there is no such thing as perfection...
"Un ticket pour l'espace" is a likeable comedy which pokes fun at the French and European ambitions with regard to space exploration. As a result the movie is proof positive that the French are indeed capable of mocking themselves. "Un ticket" also spoofs a number of other movies, such as "Apollo 13". The whole could use more focus, cohesion and rhythm, but there are a lot of deliciously absurd jokes and pieces of dialogue to savour. How to resist a movie which contains a film crew shooting "Charlemagne vs the Ninjas" ? Or a serial killer, recently liberated from prison, who gets flattened by a flaming catapult ball ? The viewer is also treated to a number of tongue-twisting tongue-twisters guaranteed to drive the unwary to the edge of madness.
The dire love poem citing the planets of our solar system is enough to justify the price of admission.
The sets and effects are unusually accomplished and would grace many a "straight" science fiction movie.
"Un ticket pour l'espace" is a likeable comedy which pokes fun at the French and European ambitions with regard to space exploration. As a result the movie is proof positive that the French are indeed capable of mocking themselves. "Un ticket" also spoofs a number of other movies, such as "Apollo 13". The whole could use more focus, cohesion and rhythm, but there are a lot of deliciously absurd jokes and pieces of dialogue to savour. How to resist a movie which contains a film crew shooting "Charlemagne vs the Ninjas" ? Or a serial killer, recently liberated from prison, who gets flattened by a flaming catapult ball ? The viewer is also treated to a number of tongue-twisting tongue-twisters guaranteed to drive the unwary to the edge of madness.
The dire love poem citing the planets of our solar system is enough to justify the price of admission.
The sets and effects are unusually accomplished and would grace many a "straight" science fiction movie.
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