Yes I know, a French comedy of this taste which also takes place at Christmas, I held out the stick a little to be beaten. And yet, I must admit that I am disappointed! Indeed, I still have a certain attraction towards French comedies, otherwise I obviously wouldn’t have gone there and above all, I appreciate those by Alexandra Leclère. So these are never comedies that will go down in the annals, it’s always quite conventional and it’s often based on a concept that runs out of steam quite quickly but here I was rather confident, notably thanks to a trailer that makes you want to; well more precisely who made me want it. But the gags in the trailer are literally in the first five minutes of the film, when the characters tell a psychologist that they are victims of a curse preventing them from having a proper New Year’s Eve. And it goes into quite dark and absurd humor, which is exactly what I appreciate. But at the same time, we remain in conventional comedy, as if the film never really allowed itself to go into complete satire. And that’s the whole problem with the film, he never knows where he wants to go, so he goes anywhere, even in the comical pee-poo scenes, which are certainly the most embarrassing scenes in the film. Furthermore, the film is damn predictable and the characters are clichés (between Don Juan and his foreign girlfriends, the vegan and the mother with disabled sons, we quickly got the hang of it). So if “Les Boules de Noël” sometimes releases lines that hit the mark, we mostly feel a lot of boredom with a lot of embarrassment.
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