OSS 117: Lost in Rio is superior to its predecessor, and we’ll take our blessings where we can find them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2024

Hazanavicius is more interested in embracing film history than pop culture, which makes his spoof all the more enjoyable, even artful.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2023

Less cohesive and less funny than its predecessor, completely lacking the creative spark that made Cairo, Nest of Spies such a riotous joy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 5, 2019

It looks like this '60s spy spoof series has already lost its mojo.

| Aug 9, 2018

What makes Lost in Rio more entertaining than it should be is the few elements of misappropriated nostalgia that rise above the rest of the film's lunk-headed posturing thanks to good comic timing.

| Feb 25, 2011

All this is mighty silly, but there's something to be said for watching a French movie that, for a change, isn't about l'amour, existential angst, or madness.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 3, 2011

Laugh-out-loud funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 10, 2010

... when all else fails, [Jean] Dujardin's smug grin and oblivious conviction in his every knee-jerk prejudice makes the character work.

| Sep 4, 2010

Time to retire OSS 117's license to kill before any more innocent people suffer.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 13, 2010

The tenor, tone and immaculately lampooned art direction often make up for shtick that gradually grows thin in the belly-laugh department.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 1, 2010

Stupid, racist, sexist and yet weirdly lovable, bumbling detective Hubert de la Bath is back in O.S.S. 117: Lost in Rio.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2010

Can't overcome the fact that it's sending up a 007 series that -- with the exception of 2006's superb Casino Royale -- already plays like a parody of itself.

| Jun 17, 2010

Strutting around like a rooster in a thin-lapeled suit, 117 isn't much different from other comic Bond figures, but the movies find a fresh and exceedingly rich vein of comedy in his airy sexism, racism, and colonialism.

| Jun 17, 2010

By sacrificing the knowing anachronisms of its predecessor, Lost in Rio also sacrifices most of its wit.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 17, 2010

Sequelitis is apparently not purely an American phenomenon.

| Jun 11, 2010

The story is lame and the action is flaccid, but as Hubert would be the first to tell you, the French have a word for those who can't take a joke: c'est la vie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2010

I sort of liked the 2006 film, and I sort of like this one, too. I may like it a little more, because Dujardin grows on you.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 10, 2010

A Berretta that is a few shots short of a full clip, Michel Hazanavicius' lightning jabs at the spy super-hero fantasy are disjointed. Too little, too late?

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 27, 2010

A reasonably pleasant surprise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2010

It's larky, snarky fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2010