Mauvais esprit
2003 Comedy
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Summary
Failed architect Simon Variot confronts unscrupulous businessman Vincent Porel, accusing
him of stealing his design for a state-of-the-art building. Minutes later, Simon
is dead, run over by Porel, who is distracted by the imminent birth of his son.
Simon is surprised to find himself reincarnated, as the baby son of the man who killed
him. Monsieur Porel’s life is about to become Hell as Simon seizes every opportunity
that his new life presents to take his revenge…
Review
If this film has any merits, it's hard to see where they may be lurking. The ludicrous
plot might be forgiven if it weren't for the fact that the comedy is so badly handled.
The idea that a new-born baby is thinking like a full-grown adult is funny for about five
seconds; after that it feels like an excruciatingly bad joke. Things aren't helped by
the ensuing torrent of chauvenistic, racist and homophobic references, spoken by characters
who cannot start a sentence without the word "putain" (the French equivalent of the "F"
word). And then we are invited to laugh at Thierry Lhermitte changing an industrially
soiled nappy (not nice if you happen to be eating a bar of chocolate at the time). How
can anyone even imagine that this has any entertainment value? From that point on, the
film's authors have clearly run out of ideas and so fall back on that good old fashioned
standby of fart, vomit and burb gags, while the plot (if you can call it that) just goes
absolutely nowhere. I'm sorry folks, but this is just bloody awful.
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