The Visitors

To anyone who still thinks French film is all about sophisticated dialogue and significant sidelong glances, this vulgar comedy -- a blockbuster back home -- should represent a sharp kick in the derriere. Smelly, high-handed, 12th-century knight Godefroy (Jean Reno) and his scurvy vassal Jacquouille (Christian Clavier) are transported to the topsy-turvy 20th century, where they meet their own descendants. Godefroy's progeny have fallen on hard times -- Beatrice (Valerie Lemercier) is an impoverished aristocrat who's sold the family castle -- while Jaquouille's family tree has flowered: Boorish nouveau riche Jacquart (also Clavier) has bought the castle and turned i...