Richard DACIER owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some mobster, he is compelled to convey a fake tourist, with a suspicious suitcase, toward Mozambic. To avoid suspicion from the authorities, he is supposed to tour a group of tourists as usual. The only problem : he is completely unexperienced as a guide ! Hence follows a comedy which is basically a tour of Kruger park. Some funny moments, and if you do not expect too much, pretty watchable movie.
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vincent_spano2 January 2010
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dbdumonteil27 April 2011A good potential ,and a very good lead,as talented in comedies as he is in drama.Plus Africa's superb wild life .But it does not make a good movie for all that .After a promising start ,the movie gets bogged down in unfunny situations (the customs officer)and repetitive tricks (Beauvais town ,it may be riotously funny the first time,but the third or fourth time,well...
This story of an inexperienced safari guide could have been a hilarious spoof on many adventures movie.But it falls short of its goal:the scene of the elephant attacking the "raiders" in their car is ponderous.Too bad ,it's really a missed opportunity! -
jeanbal4 June 2023A really good old fashioned french comedy. Kad Merad is excellent as a cowardly safari guide. And all the members of the cast do a tremendous job. Yes, the script is sometimes silly and awkward, but you can feel that the comedians were having a good time on the set. Some gags are really good and nobody acts too seriously. The humor is not always very subtle, but the film is just an unpretious pretext for a good time.
This movie is criminaly underrated. It's good clean fun. Not a masterpiece, for sure, but not the dud some have said.
If you wanna laugh without having to think too much, try Safari.
You may have a good surprise.