RRRrrrr!!! (2004)

RRRrrrr!!! is a French film comedy first released in 2004, directed by Alain Chabat.  The film stars Marina Foïs, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Rochefort, Gaëlle Cohen and Joseph Beddelem.  Our overall rating for this film is: very poor.


35,000 years ago, early man is divided into two camps – Those Who Have Clean Hair and Those Who Don’t.  Those Who Don’t are determined to steal from Those Who Do the long-lost Secret of Shampoo.  However, the ones with clean hair have a more serious matter to contend with.  One of their number has been killed – the first murder in the history of – er – history.  The task of solving the world’s first murder mystery falls to Pierre and his assistant Pierre (actually they’re all named Pierre, which is good because no one has yet invented Identity Cards)...

Doubtless inspired by a famous Monty Python sketch, this absurd Stone Age romp is one of those films which seems like a brilliant idea for all of three minutes until it suddenly dawns that it’s really a very silly idea.  The sad truth is that there probably isn’t a lot of mileage in jokes about the travails of prehistoric man, and the film manages to get all the obvious ones out of the way within the first two minutes (“Stone Age” in French is “L’Age de Pierre”, so obviously everyone is named Pierre – yep, that’s as clever as it gets).  After the novelty value has worn off (well within the aforementioned two minutes), the film very quickly becomes a tedious and rather infantile ramble as the scriptwriters struggle in vain to come up with enough decent jokes to fill a ninety minute film.  It’s like watching teeth being pulled – from sabre-toothed chickens.

© James Travers 2007

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