I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Another good movie by the French director and screen player Francis Veber, along with The Dinner Game for instance. The plot is well developed and with good pace, including both scenes of the couple Ruby and Quentin running away from the husband of Ruby's lover, who wants him dead. The characters are nicely interpreted as well, especially Quentin, a stupid and ball-busting burglar perfectly played by Gerard Depardieu. I enjoyed the many funny scenes like the various ones in which Quentin disturbs his prison inmates making them lose their temper and ending up with Quentin sending them to the infirmary. Another good one is when the couple change in women's clothes not to be recognized by their chasers.

I didn't watch this movie in cinema so my only chance was to rent it on video or wait for television debut in Croatia. Soon this movie came on television and I missed it because it was late at night. Instead of me, my mother watched it and she said that even dough it was late she couldn't sleep until the end of the movie. "Tais-toi!" was again on television and this time I didn't want to miss it.To me French movies are great and I just love work of director Francis Veber, so this was another chance to watch a good comedy. In lack of real comedies, not idiotic like American ones, Europe is exception. From France, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany and even my country Croatia, we can watch really good comedies. "Tais-toi!" is not exception, this is really excellent movie. French stars Gérard Depardieu and Jean Reno are brilliant, especially Depardieu. He is so funny in role of Quentin and he really needed this movie to remind us how good actor is he. Jean Reno is good as usual and I really watch his career from "Le grand bleu". I'm just impressed with director, actors and the whole movie. So fresh and great, excellent fun, maybe it's enough to say: "Hello, I am Quentin from Montargis!"

That's another movie of great Francis Veber, the master of French comedy. After masterpieces like "La chèvre", "Le diner des cons" and "Le placard" Veber creates a new story, where two prisoners escape from jail. Veber's formula is always the same: putting together two people who have nothing in common, like a cat and a dog. From that we have many situations of misunderstandings.The film is fun, although not among the best Francis Veber works. The first part is great and lively, in the second one the movie loses some speed and the story is less exciting.Some moments are nevertheless memorable, for example all the prison scenes and the beginning of the friendship between Gérard Depardieu and Jean Reno. These situations are really hilarious!Depardieu and Reno are big actors and work well together. Dialogs, once again, are the main ingredient in Francis Veber style.Not a masterpiece, as I said, but enjoyable.

I'm not sure if this film ever made it past the French speaking market, but it surely deserved to. Jean Reno and Gerard Depardieu are both acting to perfection in (for them) unusual roles... We've become so used to seeing Depardieu as a boring romantic lead and Reno as either a goof-ball or a ruthless killer that we've almost forgotten that's not all they can. The movie would've been nothing without its two leads as much depends on the chemistry between the them and I frankly can't see any other French actor in their place. Yes, the script has it's ups and downs and the humor is still very French, the are some holes in the plot, but it's basically a good movie worth watching many times... It's a definite thumbs-up from me!!!