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La Classe américaine

La Classe américaine (1993)

December. 31,1993
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7.9
| Comedy TV Movie

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

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Actuakers
1993/12/31

One of my all time favorites.

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Intcatinfo
1994/01/01

A Masterpiece!

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Baseshment
1994/01/02

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Dana
1994/01/03

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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ifasmilecanhelp
1994/01/04

For French people and well-understanding French speaking people an absolute must see !As said in the comment's title, I wonder why it's not well/better known...Why not, really ?It's hilarious, delirious, and with some quiet inoffensive slang...So that any grown-up person who is a movies lover could almost laugh all along the movie.The French dialogue fits completely to the expressive attitude of the actors,with even the lips movements which could make us think it is not an invented one, but the real original English lines...With plenty ironic light trashy permutations of the original English dialogues and meaning of the scenes.Without knowing the movies in which the different parts have been taken and assembled, for sure the fun can't be the same... :-(I define myself as a wide-open movie lover, from classic to martial arts (except horror :-),and especially comedies but I never heard about this fantastic one before yesterday,as someone mentioned it on a computer info's sharing site, to my great surprise.Read straight afterward the excellent reviews here on the site...Could find it and watched it in the evening... What a pleasure ! So many laughs ! Just perfect !For comedy lovers : a must see !!!Unfortunately and for once the Anglo-American speaking audience will miss this one... :-) *** a film is never really good unless the camera is an eyes in the head of a poet Orson Welles ***

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zilief
1994/01/05

I'm still wondering how Canal + may have produced such a bombshell...Producing a movie sampling so much 70s classics surely was a producer's nightmare but, hey, it was worth the pain! George Abitbol, aka John Wayne, aka the hippest man on earth, disappears leaving only a few words..."Shitty world". Reminds you of Citizen Kane? Well, that's it and this is not the only movie you'll be thinking of, as the whole movie is sampled from all-time classics, with Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford or Steve Mc Queen on his trail...You'll also have cameos of Ernest Borgnine, Jean-Michael Vincent and so on...In fact, if you happened to watch TV during the last 2 decades, you have already seen that movie, just not in that order! The work on the editing of the whole is simply brilliant, and should be studied in any audiovisual school... If you love stupid humor, irreverence and smart dumb-a$$ jokes, this one is for you!If there was a reason to learn french, this is it, as I really don't know how this can be translated... This is definitely a must-see for anyone willing whether to pee his pants, or learn french or editing.Run for it!

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gekkoyellow
1994/01/06

This movie is just too funny. If you speak French, watch it. The story is not important, don't pay attention to it. You've got to listen carefully to the dialogue, and you will understand what comedy is."On va manger des chips!!!"

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AiXeSs
1994/01/07

Take a bit of El Dorado, a bit of President's men, a part of Citizen Kane, (etc.), keep the usual dubbing French voice but create another story... Unique, hilarious, perfect

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