Les Visiteurs II
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| Les Visituers II: Les Couloirs du temps (The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time | |
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| Directed by | Jean-Marie Poiré |
| Produced by | Alain Terizian |
| Written by | Jean-Marie Poiré Christian Clavier |
| Starring | Jean Reno Christian Clavier Valérie Lemercier Christian Bujeau |
| Music by | Eric Lévi Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy |
| Release date(s) | 1998 |
| Running time | 118 Minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Preceded by | Les Visiteurs |
| Followed by | Just Visiting |
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Les Visiteurs II: Les Couloirs du temps (The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time) is a sequel to the original French film, Les Visiteurs. It was released to poor perception, because some actors had changed and there were advertisements for brands in the film.
[edit] Story
At his wedding, Godefroy de Montmirail is informed that he cannot marry Frédégonde de Pouille, because her father had his treasure stolen at the castle. Godefroy is determined to find who did it, and is on a search for the treasure. In the meantime, Jaqouille and Ginnete rob a supermarket, and drive to Beatrice for work. Jean-Pierre, the dentist who is married to Beatrice, has many patients who Jaqouille scares away, so Beatrice decides to let him watch TV, a big mistake. He believes it is a work of Satan, and destroys it and sets the house on fire. In the meantime, Jacquard is being tortured. He admits that Godefroy burnt his Range Rover, a reference to the first film. The Inquisition believes that it was a person, and Godefroy fights them. In the future, Beatrice gives Jaqouille and Ginette the potion, and Jean-Pierre accidentally drinks one glass. She says the spell, and Jean-Pierre and Jaqouille fall in to the year 1112. Montmirail is being invaded, and he and Jaqouille fight the invaders. They see Godefroy riding, and he saves Jaqouille. He sees that Jaqouille has the rubies that belong to the Duke on his hands, and they must travel back to the future. They go, along with Jean-Pierre, and Jacquard. Jean-Pierre ends up in the forest, the others under the castle. The bask their way out and terrorize the hotel, except for Jacquard who is urinating everywhere due to the torture. Jaqouille and Godefory go to Ginette, who tried to turn in the rubies for money, and instead was beat up. Iber's ex wife, Cora has the jewels, she tells them. They go to Cora's house, and take the jewels. In the morning, they go to Montmirail where a wedding is taking place. They terrorize the wedding, by doing such as pouring ice cream in to woman's cleavage, and using a plunger to destroy the uniform of a police officer. They take the potion, and say the spell. The potion was made wrong, again and they end up in the 18th century, in the middle of the French Revolution. Jaqouille sees his descendant as an adviser to Napoleon Bonaparte, and screams to him as they are taken away in a cage.
[edit] One Big Commercial?
Many did not like the film due to the showing of various brands who paid to be shown in the film as an advertisement. Some examples include:
- FedEx
- MTV
- Certain types of Drinks
- Pizza Hut
- Kentucky Fried Chicken
[edit] Trivia
- The actor who played Beatrice in the first film received a cameo in this film as a mother whose son did not do homework and watched TV all the time.
- Three years after this was released, an American Spin Off was made starring both Jean Reno and Christian Clavier.
- The station that Jaqouille is watching when he first sees the television is MTV.
