Celui ci ultra pénible...il y a de "l'humour"
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We gave up after 12 minutes (veinards!!)
Author: David O'Mahony from Malaysia
11 September 2012
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Its obsessed with sex, its crass, neurotic and just not credible. The characters are contrived, and my wife and I wished we gave up earlier than minute number 12. I'm sure there must be some New York families like this, but hopefully not too many, because this is a poor fabrication of a pathetic scenario that left if not caring what is going to happen next. We have lived in France - and never met anybody as bizarre as the characters here. The credibility of the customs scene is around zero- I've never known anybody that stupid. The wanna-be Woody Allen directing left Woody Allen looking good - and I don't like Woody Allen. We soon found something else better to do with our lives than waste it on this film.
Author: Chris Byrne from United Kingdom
27 May 2012
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When I read the blurb on what this film was about I thought 'Hey, Chris Rock, French people and a funny meeting with the future in/out laws. Sounds good to me!' How wrong could I have been? I know for a fact that this film is NOT a true representation of how French families behave and find it difficult to believe that a French person wrote it! Some may consider me to be a bit of an old fuddy duddy for not particularly enjoying unnecessary swearing in films but to have to read them in wonderful HD was a bit beyond the pale for me!
Maybe I'm lucky and have only ever met decent French people, who knows? Would the 2 sisters in this film really have behaved and sworn the way they did had they been in Paris? Not very likely so why should we believe anything about the film if they do it in New York? Chris Rock played the straight man and throughout the film looked lost and confused. I honestly think that most of the time he was wondering what the hell he was doing in the film in the first place? I have rated this film as a 1 but only because Zer0 was not an option. All in all a MASSIVE disappointment and I will not be in a hurry to go and see any more films involving any of the same cast.
Author: shadrian19836 June 2013
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This is probably the worst movie I have seen in my entire life. Chris Rock is not funny at all in this movie. I can't even believe it's him and he agreed to play this role. It's nothing like his normal comedy. It's endless and crazy. All of the characters are horrible as well as the acting. I did not laugh out loud once. The girlfriend of Chris Rock is so super hard to listen to and watch. She is just so crazy and the acting is so bad. The only thing that is good about this movie is the name because it felt like it was 2 entire days long. If I hadn't paid for the movie I never would have finished watching it. We just kept hoping it would get better and it never did.
Author: thucy1 from France
30 December 2012
Oh my god. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen in 30 years. What is very rare with me, I wanted to leave the theatre quickly after the beginning of the movie. The last time it happened to me it was 30 years ago, I was about 14. But this time, for the first time in my life, I left the movie theatre one half hour before the end, because I couldn't stand it any longer.
I saw that movie because one of my colleagues like "2 days in Paris", and this one was its sequel.
Right from the beginning, I was dismayed by the vulgarity of the movie. The character played by the french actor July Delpy (who is also the director of the movie) is vulgar and insane, telling with crude words her whole sexual life to one of her colleague.
But the worst came after : her french family came in New-York to visit her and her husband. Her father doesn't want to take a shower more than once a week, he was arrested at the airport because he had a lot of french sausages hidden under his clothes. Her sister and her sisters' partner are sex-addicts and drug users. The whole family is a bunch of asocial, immoral, ill-mannered and childish people.
Well, one could say : it's just a farce. But the problem is that it's not shown like that. They seemed to be a typical french family, a kind of primitive tribe coming in a civilized world, the US.
I didn't expect to see that kind of french-bashing coming from a french director. But True, Julie Delpy left France a long time ago and live in the US since many years now. Seeing that movie, I understand why : she seems to despise her former country and her former fellow citizens.
I can imagine some US french-haters seeing that movie in the US, laughing loudly, and thinking : "I always knew that the french were like that, and it's a french who tells us, so it must be true !" I felt insulted, as if mrs Delpy had spit on my face. I'm not chauvinistic, but I don't like to be insulted, as anybody else I think.
After watching 2 Days in New York i simply don't wan't to see the prequel. What amazed me, though, is that every single member of the cast did an excellent job. Even the script offers a fair amount of funny situation which leaves you with the question what went wrong.
In my case this ended up with Chris Rock (otherwise not my cup of tea) creating the most lovable character of them all. The French family visiting is a bunch of logorrheic maniacs. It actually didn't matter where they came from, since their behaviour has nothing to do with geography rather with psychiatry. Smaller characters break up this verbal orgy once in a while...
Author: chaz-28 from Rockville, MD
26 August 2012French tourists are obnoxious, loud, dirty, and oblivious to anything other than their petty concerns. I was under the impressions these are adjectives for American tourists when they venture over to the Old World; however, according to Julie Delpy's new film, 2 Days in New York, French people are truly garish. Five years after her similar effort, 2 Day in Paris, a busy and crowded New York apartment is the setting for a very disappointing movie.
Marion (Delpy) and Mingus (Chris Rock) live together with a modern, blended family setup. Marion has her toddler from a previous marriage and Mingus shares custody with his own elementary school aged daughter. They live in a cramped apartment somewhere in Manhattan but appear to be financially stable. Mingus hosts a few radio shows and writes for the Village Voice while Marion is a conceptual artist who is about to open her first solo show in a ritzy art gallery. The show opening is the impetus behind the invasion of the unbelievable French relations.
Marion's father Jeannot (Albert Delpy) arrives with his other daughter Rose (Alexia Landeau) and her current boyfriend of the day Manu (Alexandre Nahon). Instead of comedic cultural insights or witty observations, the audience is saddled with farce and stupidity. They are delayed in customs for attempting to smuggle in 40 pounds of sausage and cheese. They cut their toe nails at the dinner table, use Mingus' tooth brush during some off-screen sexual tryst in the bathroom, and latch on to a middle school level running gag that Mingus's name rhymes with cunnilingus. I have been to France multiple times…where the hell were these people hiding?
Marion's art show is based on two themes, photographs of ex-lovers waking up in the morning showing how a relationship develops over time and the auctioning off of her soul. To the highest bidder, she will sign a contract whereby her immortal soul will be owned by another person. Sound familiar? It should; Bart Simpson sold his soul to Milhouse in a Simpson's episode. Way to dig deep for creative inspiration there Julie.
A film with Chris Rock and Julie Delpy with New York City as a backdrop has so much promise. Why oh why did Delpy write and direct a script which is unfathomably horrible? There is a sub- plot involving a lie about a brain tumor, the relentless antics of the French family, and the noticeable bad acting from Delpy. She was wonderful in the Before Sunrise/Sunset series, but perhaps she was distracted by he director role this time.
Stay far away from 2 Days in New York, it will just let you down with thoughts of what might have been.
I like Julie Delpy and her previous body of work but this film turn out to be terrible. It seems to me because she is now an established successful author that she fells it is time to rest on her laurels and start to repeat the formula she used before to be successful, over and over again, pushing it to the extreme thinking it would work, it would be funny. Well it isn't.
The film seems to be promising at the beginning but soon began to be quite annoying, the characters are very stereotyped but not in a funny way, in a unimaginative cliché way, It seems to watch another Delpy film but one you have seen before, it's uncomfortable to watch and after a bit it gets so tedious that my mind started to wonder somewhere else and my body followed soon after . I rarely stop watching a film in the middle of it unless I feel it is not worth the time I spend watching it.
No need to say that the association with Woody Allen is inappropriate, to say the list; some people may not like Woody Allen but undeniably he is never cliché even when he talks about cliché and he has never done a film that is the copy of something already done, jet keeping his distinct and unique style. Going back to the subject, describing this film in few word I would say that it is very disappointing, not recommended to anyone, especially to Woody Allen's films lovers.
Author: Kinoymas from Spain
7 August 2012
I loathed this film as much as I loved 2 Days in Paris, a fun, intelligent and original film which I highly recommend.
I wonder what went through July Delpy's mind to write and direct a story in such a manner as to make it look like a long version of the Marx Brother's crowded cabin scene. There were way too many unbelievably stupid characters and way too many banal conversations going on at the same time. It was exhausting and, worst of all, boring. Not even the usually funny Chris Rock managed to save the day.
I will try and forget I ever saw this film in the hope of picturing a "and they lived happily ever after" whenever I watch 2 Days in Paris again. Fat chance...
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Author: Manos Petropoulos from Greece
15 October 2012
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I saw this film trusting the acting skills of Chris Rock...
Although this film was a really disappointment...
Boring,boring,boring and nothing to offer film is all i can say in a few words.
A sex-addicted old man,a psychotic girlfriend, a sister walking around naked and a man that tries to tolerate them...
Really bad script and even worst characters make a movie that it turns to be difficult to watch till the end.I made it cause i was curious to figure out if there was a point of all this.But the result was that i spend one and a half hour watching a big nothing
Okay... So I've seen Julie Delpy's Before Sunset, Before Sunrise and 2 days in Paris and enjoyed them. Sure, the films are very "chatty" but all in all pretty entertaining. Thus, I decided to watch 2 Days in New York. The film is just under one and a half hour and for approximately one hour and twenty-five minutes I was tormented by these maniac (and not the charming kind of maniac) french characters that were supposed to be her father, sister and the sister's boyfriend - who happens to also be Marion's (Julie's character) ex. It's pure horror. Really. At several occasions I very seriously considered just turning the film off, but I have this idea that every film I start watching deserve the chance to get better. Well... this one did. The last five minutes were actually pretty okay.
That's it. Five decent minutes out of ninety. Not really a good result, is it?
