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02/09/06
Merci Docteur Rey! (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 0 Rotten:17 Average Rating: 2.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Synopsis: Depicting a Paris full of madcap surprises and eccentric characters, first-time director Andrew Litvack delivers a star-studded and wacky coming-out farce. Thomas Beaumont is a 23-year-old man who agrees to an unconventional threesome, accepting money to spy on an erotic encounter... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Birkin, Jerry Hall, Simon Callow
Director: Andrew Litvack
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08/10/04
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The efforts of an experienced cast ... can't invigorate the tedious screenplay or distract from the stilted direction.
08/07/04
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01/15/05
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12/19/04
An arch, clumsy effort...not only poorly written but ineptly staged... Mercy!
10/25/04
Merci Docteur Rey, which occasionally works as a passable farce, stoops to the sight gag of vomit.
10/14/04
While the cast of Merci Docteur Rey gives it a good shot, this romp stumbles a bit.
10/07/04
It's as if Litvack tossed all these bad gags, multiple storylines and kooky characters into a blender and hit puree.
10/01/04
Top Critic
What is all too apparent on the screen is a general pointless ineptitude, particularly dire in circumstances which require both material and handling to be done with the most effervescent of skill.
09/25/04
In this comedy of murder, there is exactly one laugh, involving a dress and wallpaper, which is one more than there is of a real human moment or emotion.
09/17/04
There's much ado about very little in this flimsy, fallible Gallic comedy/melodrama which confounds with its complex, voyeuristic incongruity.
09/17/04
This is less a coming-out tale than a showcase for late-middle- aged hysterical divas in flowing caftans to yell, scream and ride roughshod over the young homosexuals who are nominally the movie's center.
09/15/04
With Yank Andrew Litvack pinch-hitting for producers Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, Merci is free of much of that M-I pomposity, replacing it with an unnerving drollness.
09/14/04
It comes off as forced wackiness of the worst kind, at once cloddish and faux-sophisticated.
09/10/04
Top Critic
Lacks the sophistication it needs to be truly effective, hopelessly lost in its unfunny gags and weak plotting.
09/02/04
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