Sur la Piste du Marsupilami (2012)

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	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Alain Chabat (Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, RRRrrrr!!!)
	Actors: Jamel Debbouze (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain), Alain Chabat (Delphine 1 Yvan 0, Didier, La cité de la peur), Fred Testot (Le Carton)
	Country: F, B
	Genre: Comedy, Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 09.07.2014, DVD, 11" computer screen.
Synopsis: To keep his job, a cheating reporter (Chabat) is forced to go shoot a story in the remote country of Palombia, helped with his local guide (Debbouze).
Review: I was curious to see the recent French comedy with a big budget, two famous (aging) comedians and directed by Alain Chabat who did something unexpected and great with Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre. But as I feared, the jokes are always the same (sometimes exactly the same as in Astérix...) and I didn't really laugh much, even with Christophe Lambert performs a fully dressed Celine Dion show (did this guy seriously play in Matrix Revolutions?!?). The story is inspired by Fanquin's comic book, but I guess many liberties were taken to adapt it for the screen, as was done for Astérix... The special effects of the mythical animal are very good-looking, and the movie obviously benefited from a comfortable budget, but the magic is not there...
Rating: 4 /10