Les couloirs du temps: Les visiteurs 2 (1998)

Director:

Jean-Marie Poiré

Writers:

Christian Clavier (writer)
Jean-Marie Poiré (writer)

Release Date:

27 March 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi | Fantasy

Tagline:

Ils reviennent!

Plot:

Knight Godefroy has to return to our time from 1023 to get back the sacred jewels that Jacquouille has taken to the 20th century.

Plot Keywords:

Jewel | Sequel | Knight | Inquisition | Supermarket

Cast

Christian Clavier	...	Jacquouille la Fripouille / Jacques-Henri Jacquard / Prosper le Purineur / Jacouillet
Jean Reno	...	Comte Godefroy de Montmirail, dit Godefroy le Hardi
Muriel Robin	...	Frénégonde / Béatrice
Marie-Anne Chazel	...	Ginette
Jean-Luc Caron	...	Ganelon
Patrick Burgel	...	Duc Fulbert
Eric Averlant	...	Brother Raoul
Armelle	...	Pétronille
Pierre Vial	...	Eusaebe / Monsieur Ferdinand
Franck-Olivier Bonnet	...	Boniface
Philippe Morier-Genoud	...	Frère Ponce
Philippe Nahon	...	Le gérant du supermarché
Christian Bujeau	...	Jean-Pierre
Olivier Claverie	...	Le médecin
Olga Sékulic	...	Hilda

Also Known As:

Les couloirs du temps
The Corridors of Time (Singapore: English title) (festival title)
The Corridors of Time: The Visitors II

Runtime:

118 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | South Korea:12 | Finland:K-7 | France:U | Germany:6 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Château de Beynac, Beynac, Dordogne, France

Company:

Gaumont

Goofs:

Continuity: A helmet appears on Godefroy's head when he wakes up in the present time.

Quotes:

[repeated line]
Jacquouille la Fripouille: OKKKKKKKKKK! OKKKKKKKKKK!

Movie Connections:

References "The X Files" (1993)

What were they thinking?

Les Visiteurs, the first movie about the medieval time travelers was actually funny. I like Jean Reno as an actor, but there was more. There were unexpected twists, funny situations and of course plain absurdness, that would remind you a little bit of Louis de Funes.

Now this sequel has the same characters, the same actors in great part and the same time traveling. The plot changes a little, since the characters now are supposed to be experienced time travelers. So they jump up and down in history, without paying any attention to the fact that it keeps getting absurder as you advance in the movie. The duke, Jean Reno, tries to keep the whole thing together with his playing, but his character has been emptied, so there's not a lot he can do to save the film.

Now the duke's slave/helper, he has really all the attention. The movie is merely about him and his being clumsy / annoying / stupid or whatever he was supposed to be. Fact is; this character tries to produce the laughter from the audience, but he does not succeed. It is as if someone was telling you a really very very bad joke, you already know, but he insists on telling that joke till the end, adding details, to make your suffering a little longer.

If you liked Les Visiteurs, do not spoil the taste in your mouth with the sequel. If you didn't like Les Visiteurs, you would never consider seeing the sequel. If you liked this sequel... well, I suppose you still need to see a lot of movies.