'La Ch’tite famille': Film Review

Courtesy of David Koskas

Dany Boon returns to the concept of his 2008 megahit 'Bievenue chez les Ch'tis' in this new comedy that co-stars Line Renaud and Laurence Arne.

In 2008, French comic Dany Boon's second feature, Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Sticks), turned into a local box office sensation, raking in more than 20 million admissions and falling just shy of Titanic to become the second-highest-grossing film in Gallic history. A cleverly conceived, fish-out-of-water comedy — think My Cousin Vinny, except with the north and south reversed — the story followed a forlorn postman from the Midi who gets relocated to the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, where he comes face to face with the dialect and antics of the "Ch'ti" people living there.

The actor-director followed that hit up with a string of high-concept affairs — Nothing to Declare,Superchondriac, R.A.I.D. Special Unit — that, while mildly to largely successful in theaters, showed a diminishing level of returns when it came to laughs. He now heads back to his roots with La Ch'tite famille, which sounds a lot like a sequel to his hit from a decade ago but is actually something closer to a spinoff project. Call it the second film in what can now be labeled "The Dany Boon Ch'ti Universe."

Funny in spats but overextending the Ch'ti concept to an ad nauseam degree, Famille, which was written by Boon and Sarah Kaminsky (Gauguin), has the comic once again playing a lovable, heavily accented man from the north — though in this case he is one who has completely buried his origins under a layer of Parisian smugness.....
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