This genre of all-star comedy-adventure-romance has traditionally gone down well in France and Bon Voyage has a really opulent professionalism, a merry sweep.

| Dec 14, 2017

Although visually appealing, the movie is too cavalier and shallow for its more weighty subject matter.

| Original Score: C+ | May 4, 2009

Has the kind of clear-cut characters, melodramatic twists, and rapid-fire dialogue of Hollywood's Golden Era -- albeit with a modern polish.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 29, 2006

Are you ready for a World War II, romantic, murder-in-Act-One, escape-from-the-Nazis, French farce?

| Jul 3, 2005

This is one nutty, but enjoyable movie.

| Original Score: B | Feb 6, 2005

A nonstop, peripatetic, neo Hitchcockian farce...captures the chaos of a government in ruin.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 26, 2004

...grand, intelligent, confident and adult -- which is just another way of saying that it is very French, in all the best ways.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 25, 2004

No more than a shallow, style-mad entertainment, but it never flags or loses its balance, and, despite the theatricality of the staging and the acting, it's precisely the materiality of the cinema ... that makes us devour it with pleasure.

Full Review | Aug 1, 2004

If blockbusters leave you cold, then this is one trip well worth taking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2004

Adjani has suddenly hit her stride; you can hope - and I do - that a great career is being born at last in this arresting actress.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2004

This is no heavy drama about the Nazi occupation of France, but a witty story about a group of people making do under those circumstances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2004

A film with a lot of energy -- more energy than substance, in fact. An average trip for hardcore foreign film aficionados.

| Original Score: C+ | May 31, 2004

Never quite worked even as a fluff film meant only for escapist entertainment.

| Original Score: C | May 29, 2004

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 28, 2004

Bon Voyage has been sumptuously mounted, with spectacular cinematography and a lush (perhaps overly so) musical score by Gabriel Yared ... that's a throwback to '30s moviemaking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2004

A cinematic trifle that quickly wears out its welcome.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 28, 2004

The dense plotting and a comic insensitivity just this side of Hogan's Heroes leave Bon Voyage an enervating experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2004

This Hitchcock like French film taking place during World War II buildup is excellent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 25, 2004

[UPDATED 2025 BLU-RAY REVIEW] It's all about as believable as those comic shorts in which The Three Stooges smacked around Adolph Hitler -- and no less entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2004