As Good As It Gets

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Thibault Malféte (Jean Reno) is a pompous French knight with a disgusting idiot squire André Le Paté (Christian Clavier) in the n12th century. He is getting married to English Princess Rosalind (Christina Applegate). His enemy tries to stop the wedding by giving the princess a hallucinogen. He accidentally takes it instead and kills the princess in a delusional state. He gets help from a wizard (Malcolm McDowell) to transport him back in time to fix his mistake. Instead, it goes wrong and he's sent to a modern day Chicago museum run by Dr. Brady (George Plimpton) and curated by Julia (Christina Applegate). Julia assumes he's her lost presumed-dead cousin. Her boyfriend Hunter (Matt Ross) is selling his estate and having an affair with Amber (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras). Andre falls for kind-hearted Angelique (Tara Reid).Jean Reno is really off-putting in this movie. He is really annoying for a lead. One of the problems is his attitude. He treats Andre like crap. He is arrogant. He is an idiot but not a lovable idiot. The whole movie is aggressively annoying. Jean Reno may not be the right person to do this role. At the very least, transplanting a French comedy should come with a warning.

This film is about a medieval royalty and his servant who got accidentally transported to the 21st century, causing hilarious cultural shocks.Though "Just Visiting" appears silly and cheesy, it does have the merit of being insightful to the contrast between modern day life and medieval life. The technology that we now take for granted simply does not exist just a century ago, let alone eight centuries ago. The cultural shocks are indeed hilarious, and provides squeaky clean laughs for the whole family. I truly enjoy watching "Just Visiting". I will be recommending my friends to watch this!

This is certainly a different vehicle for Jean Reno, one of my favorites. He plays a 12th Century Knight that is thrust into the 21st Century due to a goof by his Wizard (Malcolm McDowell). He runs into a descendant, 30 generations removed, in the form of Christina Applegate, who just happens to be the spitting image of his wife.You have your basic time-travel story 12th Century in 21st Century and the usual gaffs and laughs that are to be expected. Tara Reid played an interesting part as the gardener next door that convinces Reno's servant to stay.Brigette Wilson (I Know What You Did Last Summer, House on Haunted Hill) also struts her stuff for our viewing pleasure.Not a great film, but I do enjoy Jean Reno, and I like time-travel movies, so it was worth 88 minutes of my life.

This movie is just plain hilarious. My boyfriend and I bought this one ASAP after renting it from the library, and we are quoting it constantly. (Cheese, very good cheese! Hello, Big Nose! ALL the forest is in the small wheel! Thank you, Master!) Sure, the plot is outlandish, but Reno and Clavier do an amazing job of conveying what it would be like to be transported from the 12th to the 21st century. The actors are great, the story is great, there's no sex, no violence, only one curse word, and what I found to be only two very short, slightly lame moments in an endless parade of fun. I can't wait to watch it with my teenage nieces. I described it to them, and they're already laughing. The french version was fun, too, but hearing the actors speak English in their wacky french accents makes it that much more fun.