L'année du requin

It hurts me to write this review because I like the three main actors, and enjoyed TEDDY, the former opus of the brothers Boukherma, but it's easily the worst French movie I saw in 2022.

There are a lot bad French movies, but with this one I kept wondering the whole time if Marina Foïs, Jean-Pascal Zadi and Kad Merad even read the script before accepting their part. To me it's a total failure, mixing unintentionally laughable drama, no-thrills shark movie and a little pinch of flat unfunny humor. Beyond that it's a huge waste of talents, I couldn't help laughing while watching Marina Foïs trying to keep serious in this dull mess. The worse point could be that it's one more nail in the coffin of European genre films, if I was an investor I wouldn't want that this kind of accident happens twice.

I saw this movie as part of the programm of the Fantasy Film Fest. They usually chose movies, that are entertaining, good or in any way interesting even if they do not suit my preferences and that is fine. I do not get it, why they took this flic into their program, because I do absolutely not know, what this movie wants, is or deals with.

We have no real story, just episodes that lack a real connection. The episodes are neither funny nor horror. This movie here is tagged as "horror" and "comedy" so I expected that. I do not see any of it in it. This movie is really really bad in any occasion and it really insulted me and all other spectators in the cinema with its presence. I did not hear any positive comment when leaving the screenroom of the ones that stayed til the end.

Yes, it is a shark movie but no good one like Jaws and also, what is really hard to hit, not a trashy one. It is not that complicated to do a trashy shark movie that entertains. I saw 5 of 6 sharknados, other sharky b-movies and so on, but even if I skip their entertaining trashy part, they are even better than Year of the Shark.

I just can strongly recommend not to watch this movie.

Can you make a movie about a seaside resort terrorized - or at least thrown off kilter - by a killer shark and not take *Jaws* into account? That's the question this movie posed for me. It does not, in any way that I caught, make reference to, much less offer a parody of, the famous horror film. That for me was a problem because it then becomes just another movie on the same subject, with radically reduced resources. The script offers no interesting new angles. So why bother?

If you're going to tackle the same subject as a very well-known film, you can either parody the predecessor or try to outdo it. This film did neither. So what was the point?

I spent one month to finish this film, and i slept like 5 time during it played.

There's nothing funny nothing to tell in this movie. At the beggining i thought it might be fun, maybe the way they will do, or the story would go to the place i never think about.

It was plain, no flavor nothing at all, if it's a plain toast you still have a slightly sweetness taste in it, but not this film. All I saw was a paranoid officer versus the world.

What a waste of all actors/actress in this film, they are good but put in the wrong place, wrong story. And this is the first time I saw a french movie pas drôle pas de profondeur et aussi nul, je suis déçue.

Yes, the very famous bigger boat sentence/quote is in this. No pun intended - even if you did not read about it, you can tell that the movie is spoofing (a love letter?) to Jaws. It is not a shot for shot copy mind you, but there are enough visual and quote clues to make it as obvious as possible.

It is a fun little movie, but it may not be the best movie ever. And not your cup of tea - but that is for you to decide. It is nice to see an "older" female lead character. Not every joke does hit (contrary to the shooting skills of the main character), but it is nice enough I reckon ... or maybe I am just too generous once again.