Synopsis
French top secret agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, is sent to Rio to buy microfilms from a running nazi. To do so, he has to team up with Mossad secret services.
2009 ‘OSS 117 : Rio ne répond plus’ Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
French top secret agent, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, is sent to Rio to buy microfilms from a running nazi. To do so, he has to team up with Mossad secret services.
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"I have to go. I see a Nazi."
- OSS 117 (on the phone)
"You only try to touch the nazis' hearts, and you harvest nothing but taunt and ridicule"
-OSS 117
"You're old, pretentious, a misogynist, full of yourself, vain, borderline racist, a tacky dresser, infantile and not at all funny."
- Dolorès Koulechov (to OSS 117)
He's back! OSS 117 visits Rio de Janeiro to get his hands on a list with the names of french nazi collaborators. Even though it seems almost impossible, but his racism, sexism and anti-Semitism have somehow increased since last time.
His mission: Get the list!
His dream: That nazis and jews can someday forgive and forget about what they have done to "each other".
Je suis stupéfait de constater que, parmi mes 24 amis Letterboxd qui disent avoir vu le deuxième épisode d'OSS 117, un seul lui a attribué une cote supérieure à trois étoiles et demie! UN SEUL! Mon âme saigne.
Car pour moi, OSS 117, c'est une religion.
Quelque part en 2006, j'avais lu dans Le Soleil une critique absolument dithyrambique sur le premier opus et j'avais donc décidé d'aller voir ça au cinéma, seul, sans vraiment savoir c'était quoi. Et j'avais été renversé.
Faut dire que je n'avais jamais vu autant de gens rire dans une salle de cinéma auparavant. Jamais. Je riais probablement trois fois plus à cause des gens autour de moi, que je prenais d'ailleurs un étrange plaisir…
These films are not really to be taken seriously or analyzed deeply, but oh, do I enjoy them. Alongside the hilariously fun first (Cairo, Nest of Spies), the sequel Lost in Rio hasn't lost any of its peerless charm, boundless energy, inspired performances, ludicrously fun plot threads and the brilliantly homage-filled 60's visual style. This film definitely wields less laughs as the first and it is a bit more crude and less subtle, but it remains a witty, fast-paced and wildly fun spoof. It's a litany of silly fun as Dujardin's suave spy gets sent to the Brazilian metropolis to find a Nazi fugitive.
Michel Hazanavicius and its lead star, Jean Dujardin, return in their follow-up to OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies with an improved sequel that boasts better pacing, wittier jokes, and a tighter straightforward story that doesn't lose itself in its multiple factions that plagued its predecessor.
One of my issues I had with its predecessor was its MacGuffin and the various factions/organizations plotting to find it. Resulting in segmenting the story into these vignettes that had loose connective tissue that tied the scenes together. Which caused the pacing to be rather uneven in places that made the film more of a slog than it had any right to be. Fortunately, that's remedied with a rather straightforward plot that's easy to…
Gefällt mir im direkten Vergleich zu seinem Vorgänger nochmals eine Spur besser. Oliver Kalkofe liefert auch hier wieder einen tadellosen Synchron-Job ab und ich bin zum wiederholten Male fasziniert, wie gut die Reihe doch aussieht und inszeniert ist.
The first 30 minutes of this were the perfect sequel for me. The budget is visibly higher and the direction is even more confident. Combined with Dujardin's larger-than-life performance, this again makes for a hilarious juxtaposition.
From the second act on, though, it reaches Austin Powers levels of silliness. Still fun, but that's not this series' strong suit. Bérénice Bejo is sorely missed, but of course it would have been near impossible to include her.
Now I sincerely want to revisit The Artist. This must be the highest praise I can give any movie series.
Here he went again, hilarious and a pervert as always! Still can't imagine that this man made The Artist two years Later!
Austin Powers, who?
I really enjoyed the first Jean Dujardin starring James Bond parody in this franchise so I also decided to watch the sequels. The first one is Lost in Rio and even though it isn't as unique as the first movie, it is still a solid parody of the Bond franchise.
The movie keeps the Nazis as the main villains and it still tries to have some jokes on that basis, but they just aren't as great as they are in the first movie. The best new addition is the character of Bill Trumendous as his character had a lot of great interactions with Jean Dujardin's main character.
There were also some fun jokes that really brought to light the main…
A parody of the spy films from the sixties featuring a seductive and incompetent French secret agent travelling to Brazil to try and stop a menace that endangers the world. OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus is an over-the-top, outrageous, entertaining, visually appealing film that finds its greatest virtue in a solid protagonist who effortlessly carries the entire weight of the work. Only the unparalleled charisma and innate comedy talent of someone like Jean Dujardin can make a character as ordinary and idiotic as Hubert de La Bath work as well.