"There's No Network": a very explosive family comedy with Gérard Jugnot and Maxime Gasteuil

"If the two idiots come here, we'll welcome them, like in Home Alone ! " With a twinkling eye, a wry smile, and a determined tone, Gabi already has more than one idea in mind to properly welcome these two crooks who have been chasing her since she caught them, along with Jonas, destroying a relay antenna.

On vacation in this remote corner of the Pyrenees with their parents - who have gone looking for them - the two children, aged 9 and 11, booby-trap their vacation home to defend themselves from the repeated attacks of the two horrible, dirty, and nasty villains. Watch out, it's going to hurt!

The reference to the film "Home Alone" is obvious and assumed by Édouard Pluvieux who signs with "Y'a pas de réseau", presented at the last Alpe d'Huez festival , a film for young, crazy audiences, a little delirium carried by a tandem of colorful villains formed by Gérard Jugnot and the comedian Maxime Gasteuil, father and son, the second more stupid than the first, not very sharp either... Two scoundrels like nickel-plated feet of crime who are going to see all the colors.

Nice, the film borders on burlesque and cartoon, using slapstick – literally a stick to hit with, like those of Harlequin and Guignol, physical comedy involving a part of deliberately exaggerated physical violence – with its improbable and normally very damaging stunts and falls, as well as six-foot-long grimaces. We fall, we get up, we take a blow from a club, we get up again… etc.

The set-up lacks a little nervousness and some sliders could have been pushed further, but the Jugnot and Gasteuil association is explosive and their characters of bastards are delicious.

Opposite them, the duo of kids at the helm of this game of destruction are holding their own. We still appreciate the delightful Bernard Farcy as a crazy police captain, as well as Zabou Breitman, the perched owner. A little madness without pretensions, but fun for ages 6 and up. And bang, in the nose!