Admitted to America, through those cultural sentinels at Miramax, with the commendation of "France's highest grossing film of all time." And the breadth and depth of the humor -- clarification: the broadness and lowness of it -- leave us in no doubt as to the truth of the claim. An aged wizard of the Middle Ages has whipped up a potion to send Godefroy the Hardy into the Tunnels of Time to enable him to undo his recent faux pas of skewering his father-in-law-to-be with an arrow. But, forgetting the ingredient of quail's eggs, he sends the knight instead to the present day, together with his faithful vassal, whose name is rendered in the English subtitles as Jacquasse the Crass. (More subtitle humor: "A Black Sabbath! Let's splitteth!" -- this in the 12th Century, prior to the time-jump.) You can well imagine the subsequent sources of mirth: cars, bathrooms, table manners, telephones. Probably -- short of the total temerity of two dead-ringer descendants of the Medieval crowd -- you can imagine these as well as the filmmakers themselves, the highly, grossly commercial director and co-scriptwriter Jean-Marie Poiré and the co-star and co-writer Christian Clavier. With Jean Reno, Valerie Lemercier. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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