A Volta por Cima

Teased at school, never reached your crush - finally you're grown up, successful, have improved your looks and can show everyone. Yeah... what starts out so promising can't be realized. Unfortunately not quite as funny as hoped. Much is predictable. Actually, the best is already in the trailer. None of the actors stand out, their performances are all rather middle class. In French comedies, the dialog in particular shines, which I always appreciate. Unfortunately, there's nothing worth mentioning here. It ripples along and offers no surprises, so it's quickly forgotten. But there are worse things.

Or what, or where, and what did they make of themselves. Something along those lines always plays out at class reunions. In this case you get quite a lot of cliches thrown into the mix and while the viewer is or at least should be well ahead of the characters involved, they still struggle to make decisions. The soundtrack to this is impecable though.

If you like party tracks that is, or music in general I reckon. Having said that, since this is a comedy some will rate this higher and some will not find it funny at all. This is not a masterpiece, but it is a nice pastime movie, if you are into those things (the genre that is) ...

A waste of a movie and a completely useless movie. Did the Actors even get paid?

Who cares folks unless you just want to display your erudition for everyone to admire. My folks started taking the family to foreign language films in the 1950's and I don't recall one time anybody complaining about the dubbing running the movie. It's just a method of communicating. Darn, I'm from Tejas and I don't complain about dubbing so why should anyone? BTW the movie was great. Laughed all the way through it. French actors are very expressive so it makes no difference to me if they speak French, Swahili or I have to read the scrolling dialog at the bottom. I learned how to do that in high school.

If you're looking for a movie to pass time or have a little laugh, you might enjoy it.

Don't keep your expectations too high since you will have a ton of cliche jokes and basic comedy. Also, let's not forget that the cringe factor is hard on this one and the plot is no master piece, with a ton of plot-holes or unnecessary/predictable plot twists.

TL;DR Watch it, have fun, just don't expect much.