Crustacés et coquillages 2005

Critics score:
51 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: As flippant vaudeville-style comedies go, Cote d'Azur is rather weak. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: You might call it a musical without songs (mostly), or a farce without enough doors to slam, or a comedy without enough jokes. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Sunny little nothing of a French comedy. Read more

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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's a diversion at best and a strained souffle at worst, but it rings enough Gallic changes on the old family-summer- gone-horribly- wrong genre to deliver some unexpectedly sharp laughs. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: This is a sophisticated adult treat in the French manner with an attractive and gifted cast and is essentially serious, yet often whimsical and always compassionate. Read more

Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle: It's all lots of fun while it lasts, but you'll likely forget about it as soon as the credits roll. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It's clear that for the filmmakers, this is a sexy fantasy worth trying at home. And they make the prospect appear alluringly doable. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: As (yet another) homage to the fabled elasticity of French carnal mores, it's tiresomely coy. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: What's nice about Cote d'Azur -- besides the musical numbers that are completely insane -- is that something or someone is always jumping out of the bushes, and the film has such a patient understanding of who and what that might be. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: This breezy French sex farce offers an alternative to Viagra -- a Mediterranean seaside village that's so sun-dappled and alluring that anyone who vacations there quickly succumbs to pansexual languor. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Watching the featherweight French farce Côte d'Azur provides the oxymoronic sensation of looking at a pornographic movie with no real sex. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Cote D'Azur is an attempt at a witty, life-affirming sex farce, but it has no truth, wisdom or honesty, and it's barely entertaining. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The gay-themed film's characters and complications are formula fluff. Read more

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David Ng, Village Voice: Like many a French summer holiday, Cote d'Azur ends up being pretty, listless, and much too long. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Sexually brazen yet also rather sweet. Read more