El papanatas

It's a fun ride and there's no time to get bored. Some scenes in particular are genuinely funny (the shower scene with Louis de Funes is a classic, the whole shooting scene in the gardens is superb) and the film makers were positively inspired to produce quality comedy rather than just injecting generic humor into the movie just to fill in the scenes. It's more a case of actual gags, with natural organic humor, that were thought up carefully rather than just cramming a bit of processed haha to get through to the end.

It's carefully written and crafted, and it's quite a ride with all sorts of twists and bumps and new characters adding an extra dynamic to the story and Bourvil and De Funes do very well to add that warm organic feel to it as it easily could've been a film which comedy tag would only be honorary, and focused mostly on the plot. Many comedies are tagged as 'comedy' but aren't actually funny, they're just comedy in tone but won't actually make you laugh.

The last part, say about the last half hour, is a little bit stretchy, kind of takes a turn of its own and feels a tad different from the rest of the film, somewhat slows down the momentum, and does feel like they had to mix it up and were compelled to come up with content to finish off the picture, although the very last image is very true to the film.

7.5/10.