Le dîner de cons (1998)

A group of French intellectuals gather each Wednesday for dinner and to answer a challenge: who can bring the evening's most idiotic guest. This time, Pierre (Thierry Lhermitte) thinks he's won with François (Jacques Villeret), a local city worker whose passion is building architectural models out of matchsticks. Unfortunately for the smug Pierre, karma is coming to collect.

The Dinner Game is a contrived comedy of errors that quickly becomes dull and mean spirited. I expected a more subtle, classier film that this mediocre waste. Perhaps there's something to 'get' about French humor. Or maybe they are poor imitators. Bad backs, stupidity, tax auditors, nymphomania, sheer stupidity--I thought it was a poorly translated American flick. It was the no fart jokes that made the difference.

Le dîner de cons is utter foolishness and French at that!