suite92 We meet OSS-117 and his friend Jack (OSS-283) in an opening sequence from World War II. We meet the Princess then as well.Years later, Jack is dead, supposedly, and OSS-117 gets drawn into Cairo to see how Jack met his end.Larmina is assigned as his local guide and contact. The Princess is involved this time around as well.The gag about code sentences goes on and on and on. The dual conducted with thrown chickens was worth a chuckle.When he finds the object of his investigations, it's...the Nazis the film started with, plus some locals, of course.How will the hero resolve this? Surprises await.----Scores-----Cinematography: 8/10 Quite good for the most part.Sound: 8/10 I liked the incidental music very much.Acting: 8/10 Played as straight drama, not very good. Played as parody, reasonably funny. Definitely a lot of tongue in cheek acting in this film. Jean Dujardin is quite convincing as the culturally ignorant blow-hard OSS-117.Screenplay: 5/10 Dragged. Much as I liked the three principal actors, it dragged.Editing, continuity: 5/10 Driving in an open convertible, the lead actors don't have their hair mussed, and cigarette smoke rises slowly and vertically? The late 1950s to 1960's look was fairly good. In the opening sequence, the propeller plane came across as hokey, rather than authentic.

webstb08 What I liked about this film was it took the James bond 007 movie idea and made it into a comedy. I did not like the humor I found it to be corny and a little to dry.The Director Michel Hazanavicius Was born and raised in Paris. Started off in Short Films then moves on to the 0SS 117 spy movies.He is best known for The Artist it won the Academy Award best Picture and won him Best Director .He has won Countless awards for his films and the OSS 117 was nominated for a French Cesar for best writing and won 2 awards At the Seattle film festival and Tokyo Film festival. Two idea's I felt were raised in this movie are it does not matter how good you are it matters how hard you try. He is not the best Agent he seems to get into more trouble by getting killed and followed through out the movie. Another idea raised is you can not always trust a pretty face. He seems to let his attraction for women get the best of him which lead him to trouble through out the movie. I felt the music helped make the fighting scenes and movie funnier with the loud bang or drums and horns. It also help set the mood for being in Egypt. The action effects were not impress they were very staged you saw them coming which took away from the humor of the movie and what the director was trying to capture.

secondtake OSS: 117 (2006)I wish for a couple hours I was French, because I'm sure there were twice as many gags as I could get as an American reading subtitles. Even so, what a funny funny movie. It's not quite as zany as a spoof like "Airplane" (nor quite as funny, which of course is hard to do), but it takes the Sean Connery vintage James Bond film model and really does a parody worthy of 007. And of the franchise, which of course is bigger than Bond, bigger than Ian Fleming could have ever dreamed.But hold your horses--this is a parody of the real OSS:117. Yes, a French author created a Bond-like spy in the 1950s, and this movie and its 2009 sequel are really playing a double-edged game. They bring the old French spy to life (the original was a French-speaking American, bizarrely enough), and they make fun of him, of Bond, and of 1960s super slick sexist movies all around.The star here, the Sean Connery of this spoof (he even looks a bit like the Scottish actor), is Jean Dujardin. He's brilliant. He's funny, campy, silly, serious, and subtle about it all. He plays the role with a kind of oblivious self-ridicule that Woody Allen and Peter Sellers were so good at. It's great stuff.And he's backed up by a strong, if somewhat predictable, assortment of international thugs, beauties, and oddballs. There are shades of "Charade" here as well as the original "Pink Panther" movies. The scoring is amazing, composed with that Henry Mancini flair to a T and recorded with the familiar bright, echoey sound studio fullness of the time. Equally authentic are the opening credits, which were so convincing I had to double check when the movie came out. I was thinking, wow, a lost 1960s gem.But it's a brand new gem, or almost gem. Time will tell if this will hold up over the years, but it's a kind of must-see now for anyone into Bond films, the 60s, French humor, or just a well made movie with lots of gags. Like the gag where the noisy chickens go silent when the lights go off, and so our hero delights in turning the lights on, and off, and on, and off. Just wait and listen. It'll slay you.

R. Ignacio Litardo OSS 117 was fun from start to finish.It's difficult to define why one film touches or connects with you or not, and I won't try to analyze such perfect comedy, so politically incorrect that even academic papers should be dedicated to it :)!Everything is old fashioned here, from women's clothes (sigh!), Mambo dance, the "hero singing"... ("Bambino" sounds like an Italian canzonetta sung in... arabic :)!).Hubert is physically imposing, but dumb as hell. From all the 007s, he looks like Sean Connery, but is definitely more sympa because he's... silly, speaks his mind all the time, giggles, even has some homoerotic fantasies and there are rumours about him. In short, as an anti hero, he rocks :)! Sometimes he only raises his eyebrows or frowns, and that's all it takes to make you laugh. Bérénice Bejo is the true queen of the film. Graceful, treacherous but with ideals. Aure Atika, to the contrary, is reduced to a femme fatale of sorts. It's surprising to see her that "sexy bomb", thou.You just can't compare it with "Austin Powers"! I agree with Amazon's D. Hartley (Seattle, WA) on it being respectful to the genre.Which is your favourite scene? One of my favourite scenes is the "fight of the chickens" with the masked villain. But the truly perfect one is when chatting at the cocktail with his contacts, how they all mutter platitudes with confidence... This scene alone makes the comedy genre worthwhile.