La Folle Histoire de Max & Léon

Comic duo from YouTube sketches makes film. Context: world war II. Style: silly humor with as many references to clichés, ethnic/religious/cultural, so on so forth.

Point: make a parody out of a historical context and situation that have been such a prolific and familiar environment in French cinema in particular, in the now typical display of anachronistic comedy where the two lead characters are basically from today's world and sent back in time, hence the comedic effect.

Some social commentary injected in, between the lines so to speak, where politically incorrect topics are brought up by some characters for others to say why they're wrong.

Fine for about an hour. Runs out of puff and momentum within the last 30minutes. Pretty funny on the whole, just too typical and rehashing of older comedy in spirit and not as original as one would've liked with those two as the protagonists, a bit too formulaic in taste.

4.5/10.

In imdb, it's max and leon, but in kanopy it's la folle histoire de max et léon, or roughly, the silly story of max and leon. Two friends, just trying to avoid going off to war. They were both orphans, from a young age, and have never done an honest day's work. So when they are recruited, they try to go awol. Lots of slapstick humor. At least jerry lewis never showed up! It is pretty similar to an abbott and costello film. Or in this case, a knockoff of spies like us! They are goof-ups, but the higher ups decide they will be useful on a dangerous mission. They even end up on camels, out in the desert! Sound familiar? And later, a drag bar. This one goes all over. The last part is like a long episode of hogan's heroes. It has its funny moments. Directed by jonathan barré.

Honestly, I could not watch the whole shebang for sanity reason. The level of the "gags" that come at ultra high frequency is so low, one could wonder if it's targeting toddlers or if quantity is supposed to compensate for quality in the director's mind. I guess if you are older than 5 y.o, it probably won't work for you either. It's so lame, I decided to check Jonathan Barré's pedigree. Beside this film, he is responsible for two other disasters, also with Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais. It's worth checking these two on YouTube, it helps understand how money can ever be spent to make such monumental garbage. They apparently have an audience. Pretty sad.

It's a good comedy similar to Papy fait de la résistance, part silly part absurd. If you like that kind of humor, you'll feel right at home. Full of guests, it really feels like a Palmashow movie, as it should, so if you like their other material, definitely gice this obe a chance...

5/10 (Average)

The two guys from Palmashow, makers of short web comedy videos, wrote this comedy movie and play the main parts.

Max and Leon are idiots who go from adventures to another with no clues on what's happening. They put clothes from others peoples and play, in the movie, the stolen's part.

In a way it's like short comedy videos but longer. Alas the trope's getting way too long mid-movie. You can laugh from some silly situations but that's all there is really.

Maybe they shouldn't have written their own film, or not as first writers at least.

Directing and editing needed more work. And finally, the budget was on the low side. It shows.