Dinner Game

Pros: Fast-paced French farce. Very, very funny!
Cons: Your only excuse for not seeing this film is if you hate French farce

Monsieur Pierre Brochant, a handsome successful publisher, has invited you to join an exclusive group of the finest and brightest men in Paris for dinner next Wednesday night. Brochant’s fashionable circle of friends include some of the most ...

Pros: Solid performances. Amusing moments.
Cons: Predictable. Very Gallic in style and humor.

Now that I have completed filming on Goodfollies, I have had a little more time on my hands and have been able to turn my attention to some other areas of my life. It's been some time now since poor Norman washed out to sea and I'm starting to...

Pros: Outstanding acting; funny; surprising twists; clever dialog; a great evening's entertainment.
Cons: In French with English Subtitles. (But very easy to read!)

Last night Cinemax delivered one of it's occasional jewels in the form of 'The Dinner Game', a French farce with quite a serious message under all the silliness. Written and directed in 1998 by Francis Veber, also the author of 'La Cage Aux Folles'....

Pros: Sheer Unpredictability
Cons: Inconsequential

There are many types of comedies that I like. I'm most often commending satires (Bowfinger) and sophisticated comedies (An Ideal Husband), but there is also a side of me that like farces. I'm not referring to self-mocking comedies like Austin Powers:...

Pros: For fans of classic screwball comedy, a delight.
Cons: Not for There`s Something About Mary (or other gross-out comedy) fans.

An interesting fact about the movie The Dinner Game is that it is one of the top box office hits of all time in France. While people here in Canada seem to avoid our own movies like the plague, except that year when Porky`s came out, of course, France...

Pros: comedic performances, soft hearted nature
Cons: a bit too slapstick

Remember back in grade school, there was always a person, or group of people who were perpetually made fun of, picked on, isolated, or even mocked, just because they were different. The “Kick Me” signs, tripping with a handful of books etc, were just a...

Pros: funny
Cons: there are subtitles

The Dinner Game, which is in fact called Le Diner de Cons, which translates to The Dinner of Idiots. It is about some wealthy upper class, parisians who play a game by finding complete morons and having dinner with them, and make fun of them. The tables...

Pros: Hilarious. Top-notch acting.
Cons: nothing

THE DINNER GAME (French, with English subtitles)

Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not rated
Running time: 82 minutes
Released by: Lions Gate Films

From an American perspective, only Europeans (particularly the French) could act...

Pros: Brilliant farce with an edge
Cons: It's in French (with subtitles)

Anyone who traditionally finds foreign films to be stuffy or high-minded should definitely see "The Dinner Game," a new French farce from writer/director Francis Veber. This is a sharp comedy with a quick pace, and it's all about a stuffy jerk...

Pros: acting, script, direction
Cons: a notch above slapstick

"The Dinner Game" is a French farce that revolves around a scheme between a few wealthy friends in which they invite the most hilariously dumb person each of them can find to dinner. The person who brings the dumbest guest wins. Things are...

Pros: Good script,good acting
Cons: A tad stiff at times

I reviewed Le Diner de Cons about a year ago for my home port, Bonjour Paris. At the time, it was one of the most popular films in France and had been nominated for a Cesar for best film. There was some question on whether this movie would come to the...

Pros: Funny!
Cons: None. Well, the dork should have gotten together with the rejected girlfriend at the end.

The premise sounds dumb - a bunch of smart alecs like to invite unsuspecting dorks to a dinner party so that they can make fun of them without their knowing. But once you get past that, the movie is absolutely hilarious. The particular alec and dork wh ...

Pros: Humor, characters, simplicity of premise.
Cons: Looks like a filmed stage play.

This brief, small-scale comedy was a mammoth hit at the French box-office; I saw it to steel myself in advance for whatever American remake (starring Martin Short, probably) is on its way. The setup concerns a modern twist on the fine French art of...

Pros: good acting
Cons: predictable, irritating characters

First of all, from the review of the movie I thought this was going to be about a group of people who have a dinner party and each invite an idiot to make fun of during the course of the evening. Well, that was supposed to happen, that's what the review...

Pros: Somewhat funny and Jacques Villeret as Francois is endearing
Cons: Not worth having to read the French subtitles

I thought the Dinner Game was a good French art film. I didn't realize it was a Dean-Martin-and-Jerry-Lewis level of film. Like other reviewers here on epinions.com, I thought it was a dinner party, and it did not deliver. However, it was really funny in...