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Just Visiting

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From an earlier film "Les Visiteurs" (French), director Jean-Marie Poire gives the cast...Jean Reno (Thibault) Christian Clavier (Andre) and Christina Applegate (Rosalind/Julia)...another crack at this story of time travel, fantasy, 12th Century nobleman and Chicago USA. Poire gave the music assignment to John Powell, who in the past served up "Face Off" (1997), "Antz" (1998), "Chicken Run" (2000) and "Road To El Dorado" (2000), all very successful.

Powell's score blends shades of "Antz" and "Chicken Run", overlaying counterpoints of a medieval nature in a mystical tone (what else, when dealing with a knight and wizard's), wonderful orchestration, choral and guitar cues...the big surprise is the last track as we go disco, "YOUR TIME WILL COME", co-written by Powell, Gavin Greenaway and Jeff Pescetto...featuring the vocals of Kudson Kai, would be a great single...so check out your "dance-card" and put on your dancin' shoes, your time has come!

Total Time: 36:16 on 27 Tracks ~ Varese Sarabande 302-066-239-2 ~ (2001)

IF you loved "Building the Crate" from Chicken Run, or "Wonders of the New World" from Road to El Dorado, both spectacular peices from John Powell, you will love this wonderful effort as well. Just Visiting is the perfect blend of heroic, catchy and sometimes just plain fun score music. The bonus track "your time will come" is a wonderful finisher to a very surprising album.

I seem to be one of the few people who actually enjoyed the movie. Thus I had to find the soundtrack. Some of the music (orchestral as someone else mentioned) is really pretty good... Especially the tracks in which Thibault is fighting/running to his "chambers"... I've got to find and watch the French original (Les Visiteurs) now

This is a good score and in score, I mean the "orchestral" material. Various Artists albums are usually banal attempts to release B-Sides of B-side artists like Limp Bizkit or Papa Roach or DJ Joey-Bag-Of-Donuts. This applies to this movie, but it's not as bad as I had expected.

However, for the sake of children all over the world, don't touch the movie with a 10 foot pole.

John POWELL Wrote some nice music here and some of the marches are somewhat mediocre. With all the talent in the world then ine wonders why someone more dynamic and classical doesn't have a go. There are some marches and serene sections. Nice work.

I loved this movie and would see it again. I was disappointed that it didn't get better reviews and was gone so quickly. I especially liked the song, Your Time Will Come and I have to have it.

I LOVE the song on this soundtrack "Not a Bunny". It's awesome.

this soundtrack & the movie again and again.

I had first rented the film because I like time travel flicks and I missed it in the theatre. It was fun and had an enjoyable score. The medieval flavour and the surprise dance/disco "Your Time Will Come" at the end was the clincher and I had to buy the CD -- my first to go along with the film that I also bought.

Recommended.

I first saw the original movie (Les Visiteurs) in my French class, so when the American version came out I was very excited to see what would happen. I wasn't disappointed, it was just as good as the original. And the soundtrack during the movie is very good, but by itself, without a screen in front of me, it leaves something to be desired. There are only a few tracks that are good, and they are quite short. The music is good, but only in the context of the movie, so buy the movie and enjoy the music along with the comedy.