| Just Visiting | | Cast : | Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier | | Director : | Jean-Marie Poiré | | Studio : | Disney Studios | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | April 06, 2001 | | DVD Released Date : | July 05, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 26, 2005 | | Summary | Wonderful comedy/fantasy that suffered from lack of publicity | Content
 | I remember seeing exactly one preview for this film before it came out. I asked several people if they had seen it before, and they had never even heard of it. I belive this is why the film bombed in theaters, which upsets me greatly. This film is hilarious! Anyone who enjoys comedy should see this on VHS or DVD.
Medieval French knight Count Thibault is engaged to marry English Princess Rosalind. However, a rival, Earl of Warwick, schemes to have Thaibault bumped off so he can marry Rosalind instead. The Earl gets a potion from a witch that will cause whoever drinks it to have nightmarish hallusinations. The Earl's plan is to have Rosalind drink it, then see Thibault to be a monster and kill him. However, at the banquet something the Earl never expected happens: after tainting the Princess' cup without anyone eles knowing, Rosalind has Thibault drink from her cup while she drinks from his as a sort of romantic celebration, whitch causes Thibault to end up killing her. Thibault is thrown in the dungeon and sentenced to be executed the next morining, but he sends his manservant, Andre le Pate, to find an English wizard to try to find a way to set things right. Andre is able to bring one back in the nick of time, and the wizard devises a spell to open the gates of time. The plan is to send Thibault back a few hours to just before Rosalind was killed and prevent her death. However, this wizard proves to be rather absent-minded, and sends both Thaibault and Andre not back but forward-all the way to the year 2000!
Be sure to check this one out! |
| Rating | | | Date | April 17, 2005 | | Summary | The best! | Content
| "Just visiting" is the best film!This is the most funny comedy!
Christina Applegate is very cool in this film.Her roles of Julia and princess Rosalind are gread! |
| Rating | | | Date | April 03, 2005 | | Summary | This remake is terrible | Content
| How some people can rate it 5 star is a mystery to me. The original (The Visitors, for sale at Amazon also) does not deserve to be compared with this c**p!! It is after many years still one of my favourite films and I don't even speak French! I wish I did. I could take a French course just to get all the jokes. Sigh, why can't America be happy with influences from the rest of the world instead of trying to interpret everything into the American way. Which by the way they do very poorly. And they should instead concentrate of writing their own material. Someone is obviously being overpaid. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 16, 2004 | | Summary | "Thank you master!""HELLO HUNTER!""It smells of the forest!" | Content
| This movie is hillarious! Once you see it you'll kknow waht I'm talking about! You should buy it! :) |
| Rating | | | Date | August 13, 2004 | | Summary | Funny (if unoriginal) time-travelling movie. | Content
| This is one of those movies that only looked averagely funny in the previews, but since I love time travel related films, I had to go see it.
Two Frenchmen from the 12th century -- the tough but well-meaning Count Thibault and his easygoing servant, Andre -- get accidentally transported to Chicago in the year 2000 via a wizard's magic gone awry after he tried to send the man back in time to prevent a terrible disaster.
Once there, he meets Julia, the long descendant of his bride. He natually mistakes the modern young woman for her. The two of them stay at her and her fiance, Mark's house in the city - slowly getting used to life 800 years in the future and learn about modern technology. In a few particularly fall down funny scenes, they look at a toilet and think it's a magic fountain, and that cars are red dragons (even going to far as to smash the [heck] out of one). Later, they turn on a TV, and proclaim, in their typically heavy French accents, "It's a bunch of leetle people trapped iin-side zee box!" and attack it with a sword.
On a more serious note, at first, no one believes Thaibault when he says where he came from (all thinking he's a modern-day relative they've never met, and that he's simply confused). Andre, on the other hand, begins to take to life in 2000 pretty well, even, - through a string of heroism and coincidence - starting to fall in love with a female neighbor. He slowly wants his freedom from Thaibault, but his master won't agree.
Meanwhile, the wizard transports himself to the future and tries to find them. Quite interestingly, he seems to have no adjustment problems to the foreign time and pretty much blends right in. Over time, Julia begins to believe Thaibault when he says where he truly comes from. Not to mention, they all end up slowly untangling a plot involving the scheming Mark.
If you like Bill & Ted-esque time travel comedies (just the opposite scenario here) with a little bit of romance and action, you'll love this. As funny as it might seem to see the pair's actions in 2000, I suppose I shouldn't laugh too much. If I got dumped in 2800, I doubt if I'd do very good, LOL. |
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