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25 out of 35 people found the following comment useful :-
You'll love it if you don't take it seriously!, 4 September 2005

Author: geofverney from Brussels, Belgium

I had a great time watching this movie. Why? Simply because when I got out of the screening, I felt full of energy and i had a smile on my face. You can't say this from a lot of comedies, let alone movies of course.

There is no shame in making comedies. I don't understand why a movie should always be dramatic or convey a message. In a way, it has its own weird kind of humor just like the Monty Python had their own weird kind of humor. If you don't feel like watching this kind of movies, just don't go, you won't like it! If you're ready to experience a genuine weird French humor. Try it, you may love it!

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
great fun..,if well prepared, 12 January 2006

Author: pntbrk25

i found this movie to be excellent. naturally it is absolutely ludicrous and one can argue about the character not being realistic, but then it is a comedy. yet 1) i think it helps quite a lot if one has seen point break and can appreciate the notion of surfing and it being an ideology, a way of life to extract even more fun out of Brice. besides there are plenty of allusions to point break which you will miss or not regard as funny if you have never seen point break.

2) try to watch the movie in french (with subtitles if needed) and not as a synchronized version. i briefly checked out the German dubbing and it was horrible. a lot of the jokes are based on puns etc. and e.g. the "German Brice" came off as having a completely different attitude than the "French Brice"

all in all...a good, fun movie

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Not for everyone, 8 August 2006

Author: kakihara83 from Canada

I have heard a lot about Brice de Nice before watching it. I've seen people wearing Brice t-shirts and I've heard the stupid song. Though I don't really appreciate comedies, I gave it a try. Have I smoked too much pot and did I really enjoy it? I usually don't laugh when I watch movies that try too hard to be funny. This one tries very hard. But I laughed. For me it succeeded. And it grew on me. Now I wanna watch it again just to live another time all these funny moments I enjoyed and all the ones I might have forgotten. It's one of the very few recent comedies that made me laugh along with Napoleon Dynamite. OK now having said this, if you like comedies, do not be too enthusiastic. This movie's not for everyone. Some people are meant to like it, others will just hate it! At the beginning I thought it was pretty stupid but I slowly got seduced. At the end, when the credits started to roll, I realized I had one hell of a good time!

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
C'est Le Casse De Brice, 20 April 2007

Author: dbdumonteil

In 1995, Jean Dujardin organized his first shows around a character he knew when he was in high school entitled Brice. The latter took himself for someone witty, clever and whose formidable verbal words helped him to maintain respect around him. Dujardin kept him in memory to create an eternal teenager and a dreamy rich kid, fond of surfing who's waiting for his hour glory.

"Brice De Nice" was one of the most profitable movies in 2005 from a commercial perspective. Artistically, well it's another story. The main problem with James Huth's effort or rather Dujardin's (the director contents himself with shooting without the single directing idea and it's the star who holds the reins) is that it has strongly the look of a stretched sketch to make a one hour and a half film. It means that a few jibes can be funny for a short time and it's a mistake to believe they that can be the only reliable supplier of laughter for a thin story. Hello weariness! To flesh out (so to speak) the whole, comes a two-bit subplot in the second half between Clovis Cornillac and Elodie Bouchez and superfluous filler (the sequence in the bank turned into a pseudo musical. By the way, the song "C'est Le Casse De Brice" was bound to be a big hit in France). Even with the adoption of a deliberately schoolboy tone, the whole doesn't take off on the crest of the waves but sinks at the bottom of the sea.

To appreciate "Brice De Nice" is like to appreciate the hilarious sitcom: "Un Gars, Une Fille": in small doses. Besides, Alexandra Lamy has a cameo in Huth's effort. As for Dujardin, he has real actor skills and proved it with his aforementioned shows and the quoted sitcom but also in cinema with "OSS 117: Le Caire Nid D'Espions" (2006), he nearly grabbed the César for French Best Actor this year with this role. But, here, it's not a film he would put on top of his CV. Anyway, teenagers or little demanding viewers will love this one.

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5 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
Fun beginning, falls apart quickly, 9 August 2006

Author: Bryce David (brycedavidzon@excite.com)

The beginning of BRICE DE NICE is very funny, colorful and lively. It's very ridiculous but that's what makes it so funny. But once the "story" kicks in (father looses his money, Brice needs to find a job and live in the real world), the film falls apart and never recovers. There are a few interesting bits here and there but 80% of the film is almost unwatchable. It's so forced, trite and unfunny that it makes me wonder who created the first 20%.

The concept of BRICE DE NICE is not that different than one of those Saturday Night Live sketches and making a whole movie out of this wacky character was probably overkill when a short film or TV episode would have been sufficient.

I give the beginning an 8 but the rest of the movie a 1...cassé!

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0 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Do surfers really like to rhyme?, 2 March 2006

Author: barney_13 from United Kingdom

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Great value if you want to be truly bewildered. However it just doesn't make ANY sense. At ANY point during the entire film. Maybe I just don't get the humour but this film seems to have been written by a thousand stoned monkeys sitting at a thousand typewriters then edited by a committee of mentally stunted twelve year old boys. From France. Nuff said. SPOILERS I don't know where to start; the odd 'axe' competitions, the guy with toes where his feet should be, the songs, EVERYTHING Brice says. Awful. Just awful. In fact so awful its brilliant. I didn't' know whether to give it 1 or 10. but now its over I need a good long lie down far away from anything yellow.

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14 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :-
A bowl of fresh air!, 12 April 2005

Author: drloveone from Switzerland

Those who think that a movie is about reality, sex, drugs and violence have lots to learn before we can find the heart of a child in a movie theater again. Brice De Nice is one of those movie that brings a bowl of fresh air in the mist of all the crap we can see on any screen. This one has all the qualities required to have a good time and laughters at the movies in order to provide the spectator a real good happy and positive moment in a theater. Thanks to people like that we want to return to our teen years and be wild again and just have lots of fun. I guess I am just like Brice, I never want to grow up in a world that nourish ignorance and horror.

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1 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Very bad movie, 4 February 2006

Author: adon73 from Canada

It's no wonder people left the room at the movies after 20 minutes of this. This is the worst movie ever. The few parts that MIGHT have been funny were all recycled from his previous sketches. There's no real story to speak of, though the movie tries to convince you that there is some psychology at work. You can tell the parts that were supposed to be funny but failed miserably. First you will wonder why you don't understand what the heck is happening, then you'll realize that there's nothing to understand, I feel sorry for anyone who saw this at the movies. Worst movie ever. Ever.

Ever.

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1 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Bad & Annoying Movie, 18 February 2007

Author: (thissweetbanana@aim.com) from United States

This movie was awful. I mean I thought since it was a foreign film it would be good. I guess we can't judge before we know. Seriously, what was with those annoying songs? Especially that one where it went give me the tax. Come on, get some better lyrics. I couldn't stand his personality. It was way to cocky and superficial. Well, I didn't enjoy that movie, very disappointed by its soundtrack. Oh, and another thing what was with that odd relationship with that guy with the feet and the girl with the ears. I just thought this movies was really ridiculous for my taste. It wasn't that funny in my opinion. Just really, really, annoying. People should really learn when to stop in movies. Sometimes they just take it way to far, where there is a bridge of comedy and way to far where it just hits the point of stupidity and annoyance.

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2 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
some people shouldn't make movies, 7 May 2005

Author: vonmerey from Netherlands

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The well-known, very popular jokes of the character "Brice de Nice", a young, lost youth, never took much more than a couple of minutes to make one laugh, and never keeping the tension for much longer a time. If you sum up the five or six jokes, that leaves you with, say, fifteen minutes of fun. The pity is that the movie takes much longer! I just hope that it taught a lesson to other stand-up comedians who, in the heat of success, plan to make a movie about their favorite character. Not every joke is matter enough for an hour's time. It's not even good for the comedian's career, if he's constantly reminded of the bad movie he did a couple of years ago. If there's anything but money to justify this movie, tell me. Another evening lost in the cinema, watching a disappointing french comedy!

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