Product Details

• Actors: Jean Dujardin, Louise Monot, RĂ1, 4diger Vogler
• Directors: Michel Hazanavicius
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Music Box Films
• DVD Release Date: August 31, 2010
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003P3PQNU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,544 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Possibly the 2nd funniest spy spoof ever. --Wade Major, Box office.com

If you are a fan of inspired silliness, you won't want to miss OSS 117: Lost in Rio. --John Powers, Vogue

Dujardin does wonders. The actor invents a persona that like sellers' inspector Clouseau, is a continual joy to watch! --Jordan Mintzer, Variety

Product Description

The price of French Intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath code name OSS 117 has a new mission that takes him to the Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960s. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent, he sets out to capture a Nazi blackmailer with an embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators. With a jubilantly retro score and production design, along with flair for the cinematic vocabulary of the 1960s, the filmmakers again have the perfect man to send up Western arrogance, French chauvinism and bigotry in general with biting satire and scathing wit.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 STARS FOR AUDACITY OF SILLINESS AND POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS, November 21, 2010

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Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oss 117: Lost in Rio (DVD)

More Gallic silliness with Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, the pride of French intelligence, this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil of the 60s. This spoof of early James Bond films works so well because everyone connected with this farce is on the same page starting with the star, Jean Dujardin, a Sean Connery look-a-like. Adapted from the series of OSS 117 books by Jean Bruce, with a screenplay and direction by Michel Hazanavicius, the politically incorrect tone is sustained in almost every scene.

Dujardin's blithe, glib, ignorant arrogance propels him from one massive faux pas into another as he somehow manages to stay alive and maybe even fulfill his mission, this time tracking a microfilm that compromises the State and necessitates stopping a Cold War Nazi blackmailer.
The look of the film perfectly captures the style and tone of 60's movies, with great vintage film colors and tints, upgraded a touch from OSS's last outing which was set twelve years earlier in Cairo of the 50s.

For fans of 60's spy films, here's more absurd fun and offensive humor that ranges from Rio's sunny beaches, through luxuriant Amazonian forests, down into the depths of secret grottos and up to the top of the outstretched arms of the gigantic Christ the Redeemer statue. It's a twisted visual metaphor that works as a fitting finale.

Wherever danger lurks, whatever the inappropriate remark, you can count on Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath to be there -- and blithely make things worse.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars French Pink Panther, May 5, 2011

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Paul Hein - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oss 117: Lost in Rio (DVD)

I was watching late-night TV - channel surfing, and caught the tail end of one of the OSS117 movies. I speak enough French to keep up with the dialogue and couldn't stop laughing. Guy typifies French view of the world!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars France's Greatest Spy??, November 14, 2010

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G. Daugherty (Lafayette, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oss 117: Lost in Rio (DVD)

I saw the Trailer for Lost in Rio at the Music Box in Chicago and had to see this movie. Jean Dujardin is the Suave, Hip Counter-Intelligence Spy the World needs! OSS 117 asking the German Embassy if they have a list of ex-Nazis hiding in Brazil is so funny because He is so sincere with his request. The movie is in French with subtitles but still an enjoyable Action Comedy. France's Greatest Spy? That is for others to decide.