10/10
Watched it a dozen times and still as funny as the first time.
2 March 2021
Gérard Oury's La Grande Vadrouille (or Don't Look, We're Being Shot At for the quite stupid English title) is probably the best French comedy ever. It's timeless and a guarantee for some good laughs. La Grande Vadrouille is probably the movie that I rewatched the most. Every now and then I need to see it again, and it never fails or bores me, and even if I know it almost by heart it's still as funny as the first I watched it. I'm originally from Belgium, and everyone knows that movie there, it's a classic, the kind of where people reenact scenes and dialogues when talking about funny movies. Bourvil and Louis de Funès, are both legends in the French cinema. They're at the top when it comes to comedy, andd seeing them together in a movie is just a delight. The scenes where they do the musical chairs with a whole battalion of Germans will always get me in tears, I know the scene is coming and I already start laughing. I'm surprised, and not, this scene will always get me in tears from laughing, even after watching this movie at least a dozen times. La Grande Vadrouille is one of Louis de Funès best movies, if not the best certainly in the top three. Don't get afraid to watch it because it's from 1966, it aged very well and is funnier than most of the modern comedies now.
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