Product Details

• Actors: Louis de Funes, Julien Guiomar, Jean Martin, Marcel Dalio, Coluche
• Directors: Claude Zidi
• Producers: The Wing and the Thigh ( L'Aile ou la cuisse ) ( The Wing & the Thigh ), The Wing and the Thigh, L'Aile ou la cuisse, The Wing & the Thigh
• Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Universal
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000B9P59G
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,422 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

France released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: In this comedy, Louis de Funes is a top restaurant critic, the head of an important French culinary guide. At the beginning of the film, he and his son (Coluche) are at odds, as the son prefers working as a circus clown to studying the fine arts of gastronomy. The two join forces, however, to thwart the greedy owner of a chain of inferior restaurants, who plans to take over the finest restaurants in France and substitute his formulaic fodder for real cooking. Another lure bringing the son into the picture is a lovely secretary working for the guide.
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Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A comedy about the quality of restaurants and canned food, November 25, 2006

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Pavel Peev (Bulgaria) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wing and the Thigh ( L'Aile ou la cuisse ) ( The Wing & the Thigh ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ] (DVD)

The great french comedian Louis De Funes is very funny in this comedy.
He plays the restaurant inspector Mr. Duchemin, who issues a guide with quality ratings of restaurants. Because the inspector has strict stanards, a lot of restauant owners become his enemies. He trains his son to be an inspector as well, but the son rather prefers to be a comedian in a circus. After inspecting a few restaurants (french quisine, american quisine, etc.), he gets to face the producer of canned food - Mr. Trikatel. Tricatel wants to destroy him, because Duchemin can reveal the fact that canned food has poor quality. Duchemin manages to penetrate into Trikatel's factory and to observe the horrifying methods that are used for production of artificial foods.
Then there is a TV battle between Duchemin and Trikatel, and of course Duchemin wins, but only because he gets help from his son.
This is a remarkable story that will make you question the quality of the food that you eat.

For me, this film was definitely worth watching and it made me laugh because of its sophisticated humor.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars hard to watch, October 16, 2010

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vta "vta" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wing and the Thigh ( L'Aile ou la cuisse ) ( The Wing & the Thigh ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ] (DVD)

interesting historical artifact. silly, hard to watch. this is *NOT* sophisticated humor, it is slapstick. while watching it, i kept expecting the 3 Stooges to appear.