OSS 117: Lost in Rio

Sometimes when you return to the same well twice it's a pleasant experience.  Sometimes though, you find only old leaves and a dead squirrel.  Sadly, this is one of the latter occasions.

And I say this with great disappointment as I loved "OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies".  It was a deeply silly comedy that got the tone just right.  Unfortunately, it goes badly wrong here.

The plot follows our hero - superspy Hubert Bonnosieur de la Bath - who is given the mission to retrieve a list of French WW2 collaborators from an ex-Nazi living in Brazil.

HUBERT: Collaborators?  But didn't de Gaulle say, "All France resisted"?
BOSS:  Yes.  Yep.  He sure did.  That's what he said all right.  You leave in the morning.

I laughed at that.  Unfortunately it may be the best joke in the whole film.  You see, they really really crank up Hubert's casual racism in this one as he has a go at the Chinese, then a LOT of Borat-esque
jokes about the physical appearance of Jews.  It just gets tiresome.

I still think Jean Dujardin does a great Connery-era Bond impression (he does his patented Connery-running style* again in this movie) but there's just a lack of jokes - and what jokes there were
left a bad taste in my mouth.  4/10

HUBERT: One thing still puzzles me - why is your name is on the collaborators list?
BOSS:  Oh you know.  Anyway, all's well that ends well eh?

*  Which goes, run-run-run, stop, look around, run-run-run, stop, look around, run-run-run and so on.