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06/02/07
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The Valet (2007)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:55
Rotten:25
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: Like much of director Francis Veber's work, The Valet is a witty, madcap farce with memorably zany characters.
Theatrical Release:Apr 20, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $2,172,209
Synopsis: Francis Veber (The Dinner Game and The Closet), the living master of French farce, has combined his classic elements of hilarious slapstick with quick-witted dialogue in the new film THE VALET. The... [More]
Starring: Gad Elmaleh, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry
Director: Francis Veber
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10/18/08
To be honest, The Valet does not show Veber at his best.
04/23/07
If you listen closely enough, you can hear the "Laugh Now" box lighting up.
04/19/07
I laughed during this movie ----- once.
05/01/07
I can even see Adam Sandler starring in an American remake. Can't you just see a dopey, befuddled Sandler sharing a lumpy little twin bed with, say, Jessica Alba?
08/15/07
What fun! Not really.
06/01/07
After the vaporous whimsy of Avenue Montaigne and now the drippy antics of The Valet, Paris really could use more Gaspar Noé leather infernos.
04/20/07
An unfunny French comedy with unappealing characters.
04/28/07
I think it's safe to say the time may have passed for Francis Veber's particular brand of French farce, especially if he's going to keep cranking out stuff as tiring and contrived as The Valet.
04/20/07
The Valet is a trifle with a few good ideas strewn about, but which feels rushed and too flimsy for its own good.
05/31/07
The movie is so tame you may find your mind wandering toward the casting of the inevitable Hollywood remake. (Jonah Hill as Pignon, perhaps?)
09/07/07
I kept fantasizing about how great this film would have been if Eric Rohmer had made it.
06/21/07
Like its hero, this unassuming comedy is nothing special to look at, but too sweet to despise.
04/21/07
The films of writer/director Francis Veber are a bracing reminder that French comedies can be every bit as broad, unsophisticated and cliched as their American counterparts.
04/20/07
The only fly in the ointment is the fact that it simply isn’t very funny and since it is a comedy, after all, it is a flaw that sadly renders all of the other virtues moot.
05/05/07
Stereotypes were made to be broken, but don't expect the lithe screwball comedy "The Valet" to change your ideas of Gallic humor.
05/30/07
Think mediocrity, so much so that if you took away the French subtitles and had the characters speaking English, you'd have an American comedy most critics would shrug off as derivative and a trifle empty.
05/04/07
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