Martin_G

This film is all you've read in the other comments, and more. Think of the saddest thing you've ever experienced; think of the hardest criticism of human inhumanity you've ever seen; think of the best animated drawings you've ever watched. Add all that up and multiply by ten. Don't miss this film.

This is a remake of Les Fugitifs (1986), also made by Francis Weber with two very well-known French actors. The American remake is less amusing and moving, but if you haven't seen the original, the mishaps and misunderstandings, the growing friendship between the loser and the reformed robber, the seduction of the little girl, will let you watch this gently amusing comedy without boredom.

This is the best film I have seen in a long time. Don't be put off by anything you have heard, or because you think "it's impossible to laugh at the Holocaust"... This film asserts the power of love, life, and humour in the face of unimaginable adversity. It's *not* a realistic film, but it's a real tragedy - narrated in comic mode. It's gentle, amusing, and touching. Folk were weeping at the end, and I nearly was myself. I went unwillingly to see it (because I *hated* Benigni's The Monster), but I'll see it again soon.