Ah, Jimmy Fallon is at it again. After the - ahem - mildly entertaining US remake of the French "Taxi"-franchise (I'm still mad the third film isn't called "Taxi Taxi Taxi", by the way), he is now going to star in and as "Timothy", a comedy about a 30-ish man still living with his parents, much to their chagrin. (I always wanted to use that word.) The film is based on the 2001 French comedy "Tanguy", which Sarah and I watched when we were in Paris last month.
I didn't understand everything (Sarah translated most of it for me, though), but I found "Tanguy" (which is pronounced more like "laundry" than like "tan-guy") to be very entertaining. The comedic performance of André Dussollier, who plays Tanguy's father and who I instantly recognized as the narrator from "Amélie", especially stood out.
Knowing that a French movie won't be successful outside of France if it doesn't have big names like Jeuneut or Kassovitz in the director's chair or recognizable faces like Reno, Depardieu or Cassel in it (seemingly, films with Christian Clavier, who I like very much, are only considered for international release if he's paired with either Depardieu or Reno, which is a shame, since "L'Antidote" looked really promising), I even thought how much I'd like to see a well-spirited German remake, although I couldn't think of any good German actors/comedians around 30 that could pull it off. I still can't.
But a Hollywood remake? I don't know. Not to bash Jimmy Fallon, he was great in Almost Famous and I like some of his SNL stuff, but his feature comedy rolls just didn't do much for me. Also, the title character in "Tanguy" isn't the comedic center of the film, it's the parents. So casting a comedian as "Timothy" might not be the best idea. There's no word on who will play the father yet, and that's really the most crucial part. Well, we'll see.
I didn't understand everything (Sarah translated most of it for me, though), but I found "Tanguy" (which is pronounced more like "laundry" than like "tan-guy") to be very entertaining. The comedic performance of André Dussollier, who plays Tanguy's father and who I instantly recognized as the narrator from "Amélie", especially stood out.
Knowing that a French movie won't be successful outside of France if it doesn't have big names like Jeuneut or Kassovitz in the director's chair or recognizable faces like Reno, Depardieu or Cassel in it (seemingly, films with Christian Clavier, who I like very much, are only considered for international release if he's paired with either Depardieu or Reno, which is a shame, since "L'Antidote" looked really promising), I even thought how much I'd like to see a well-spirited German remake, although I couldn't think of any good German actors/comedians around 30 that could pull it off. I still can't.
But a Hollywood remake? I don't know. Not to bash Jimmy Fallon, he was great in Almost Famous and I like some of his SNL stuff, but his feature comedy rolls just didn't do much for me. Also, the title character in "Tanguy" isn't the comedic center of the film, it's the parents. So casting a comedian as "Timothy" might not be the best idea. There's no word on who will play the father yet, and that's really the most crucial part. Well, we'll see.
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