Simple? Yes. Funny? Yes. Effective? Sure. This is a humble but yet very very funny movie. The earnest Jean Reno at his finest comedy bringing his bad man face into akward situations. Is very very hard to find a movie in which you can laugh at least 5 min, so this is not THE movie, but fulfills it's porpoise. Jean Reno the serious and Youn the funny optimistic guy is a much seen combination, but surely enjoyable. You won't regret watching it

I was not expecting anything more than smiles, but midway I could not repress my laugh. The story is not following the straight path and is hilarious enough with some bon mots here and there. A TV comedy that holds on 6 years after release.

This is laugh-out-loud funny. A French movie, with English subtitles, about a young overzealous chef in Paris, who keeps being fired because of his overzealousness. By bizarre happenstance, he becomes known to one of the great chef's of Paris. It pokes fun at molecular cuisine, something he must master or risk losing a star. It's hilarious. Don't know if one has to be a foodie to appreciate it. And on the same weekend I perfected my carrot soup recipe! C'est formidable, mais ce n'est pas molecular, mais c'est un peu foamy. I watched it on Netflix. You'll recognize one of the leads, Jean Reno, from Mission Impossible. The other lead actor I did not recognize, but he was formidable!

to sign up a more likable and more possible actor to play the young chef role. this actor simply could not deliver a likable or even believable character. he just looked like a clown, a way-too-ordinary nobody, like Roberto Benigni or Woody Allen, only the movies could allow them to have beautiful women fallen for them. time and again, this nobody-like character in this movie, had a much taller and very beautiful woman being his lover and even carried his child. the screenplay was not good enough to script better dialog. there were so many sections the dialogs were just vague and messy. the arrangement of the characters were also not well developed. it's definitely a comedy, but i never got a chance to smile, albeit laugh for the whole movie. i just felt very awkward and rushed all the time. the scenarios were just too weak. the restaurants and the kitchen scenes also looked vague and unconvincing. this is a barely watchable french movie, definitely not worth blindly copying or adapting by Hollywood again.