Monsieur Claude 2

This is the second film in a French series of three up till now, made 2014, 2019 and 2022.

The center of the film is the couple Claude and Marie Vernueil (played by Christian Clavier and Chantal Lauby) a Catholic pair. As the first (and better) film showed, the four daughters of the couple has been married with four men from different places. From Algeria, Israel, China and the Ivory Coast. Now the marriages are going okay, but around the same time, it seems that the four men wants to go home to start their own business. Not that satisfied with life in France. The wifes agree, and soon the Verneuils are told. Is that a goodbye to the four couples and their grand children?

The first part of the movie is slow and not that funny. But the last part is better. The Verneuils will try to make the big family stay together in France.

Having watched the first movie I decided to give a chance to the second bearing in mind that often the continuation of a successful recipe does not live up to the original movie. This observation was confirmed although the second film is still very funny. I have to admit that it is full of commonplaces and cliches to an annoying degree. The truth is that you laugh and that is the aim of a comedy. There is no originality in the jokes, they are as commonplace and trite as you could imagine but I found myself laughing most of the time.

The plot is simple. The bourgeois elderly couple strives to keep their four daughters in France while the latter under the instigation of their foreign husbands seek to pursue their luck outside their country to destinations linked with the origins of their spouses. The lengths to which the paterfamilias and his wife go to incite their daughters and grooms to remain in France inspire the main comedy effect of the film.

It is important to note that the scenario is very apt concerning current affairs in French society so that anyone closely following developments in French social reality will recognize imediately that important and "heavy" matters dividing national opinion such as immigration, integration and tolerance towards Muslim practices or legalization of homosexual marriage are treated in a lighter vein and produce ample laughter despite their insoluble and often tragic aspects in real life.

I recommend this movie which without being a masterpiece will appeal to those with a vivid interest in the dilemmas of postmodern multicultural society who are ready to put aside for a moment the often tragic connotations of those matters and accept the comic element which is inherent even in the most serious aspects of human social coexistence.

This sequal to serial (bad) weddings is better in my opinion then the first one. not only do they keep the jokes over the cultures and races in france but the film is just funnier , also there are better lines in this film. the actors do a wonderful job. both Christian Clavier and Pascal N'Zonzi are great and have good moments in the film.

Loved the first part, but this second was not funny at all, not even the actors could save the flat storyline. A good example how political correctness kills the film industry, seemingly not only in Hollywood.

Sooo sad. I really liked the first film but part 2 is not worth watching. Maybe it is better if you are from France yourself?!