Very, very sleepy and low-key.
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09/14/07
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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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Reviews for The Valet
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
It's all empty calories, of course, but that's what French pastry -- not to mention popcorn -- is all about.
05/25/07
Top CriticVeber's script is masterfully constructed to increase the laughs as the scheme grows more and more convoluted.
05/19/07
Top CriticShot with the creative energy of a mediocre sitcom, the scenes play out predictable plot devices with minimal creativity and even less risk.
05/22/07
The stitching of Veber's contrived entanglements falls apart at the tug of a thread, because nobody onscreen buys the ruse being perpetrated.
04/21/07
Improbable? Perhaps, but one of writer-director Francis Veber's gifts as a farceur is to make the unlikely both credible and amusing.
06/02/07
Tart and weightless, and it entertains without leaving a mark. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but at 85 minutes, The Valet at times feels like a blueprint for a farce rather than the farce itself.
05/04/07
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04/23/09
It’s not Veber’s best, but it’s certain good enough.
04/20/07
Writer-director Francis Veber has been compared to everyone from Moliere to Blake Edwards, but this sublime French farce reminded me most of Billy Wilder.
04/27/07
Briskly directed, The Valet hits the brakes for an abrupt ending, but this short ride delivers few apercus on fidelity, glamor or the nice boy next door.
04/27/07
This smoothly acted contrivance offers a lesson or two in how to sell a certain kind of comedy -- meaning, how not to oversell it.
04/26/07
Top CriticAh, the French. They've been so good at mining romantic entanglement for veins of comedy for so long they more or less own the lease. While that may be argued, this bomblet of bumbling unbelievability will tickle us in the right places.
03/28/07
Seasoned French auteur Francis Veber ("The Birdcage") creates an offhand romantic comedy that Hollywood rarely achieves.
05/03/07
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
Feydeau lives!
04/17/07
An entertaining and amusing fluff of a film.
05/14/07
Francis Veber, the writer and director of The Valet is a master of French comedy...To cut to the chase, The Valet est un comédie plaisant et léger, mais il n'est pas mémorable du tout.
05/14/07
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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A sophisticated screwball comedy right up there with the best of Billy Wilder. 
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