Just Visiting

The recycled plot of the original The Visitors is diluted so as to be planted in the commercial potential of abounding America, and the result is shapeless crap that has very little in common with the previous two films. Jean Reno in the role of Knight Thibault is but a shadow of the venerable Count de Montmirail, not to mention Clavier, in front of whose Andrew the famous Jacquouille would not even have farted contemptuously. Their mutual sparks are nowhere to be seen, the dialogues are faint, without wit, without pithiness. If I laughed, it was only during the poorly copied scenes from previous films and only in the first part of the film. The second part is a post-American mockery and is a mess, and the only thing it has in common with The Visitors are the poorly acted main characters. The spirit of the previous films is irretrievably lost - the editing, the dynamics of dialogues, the acting performances all don’t work... just nothing. Only a drop of nostalgia saves this comedy from trash, nostalgia which seizes me when I see Reno's face in his helmet... (04/14/2004)

Less humorous than the previous 2 installments of Just Visiting, but I still enjoyed it quite a bit. It falls a bit short of the original, though, of course. (11/18/2010)

A terrible American remake of a fairly good comedy, where it is once again confirmed that when two people do the same thing, it is not the same thing. The comedy is unbelievably unfunny and the only funny bits are the ones that one has already seen in the French version. This is just a film made so that Americans don't have to read subtitles. There is no additional value added. (05/04/2014)