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.

About halfway through the movie, I could see how it was going to end. But that didn't spoil it, thanks to the well-written situational comedy and good performances. It also occurred to me that as good as this was, it could not effectively be remade in the U.S. The stereotypical French obsession with food lies at the heart of this film, but it translated well. Make a batch of crepes, or get a couple of baguettes and a bottle of vin rouge, and enjoy.

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.

I like Jean Reno and I also like french movies, but this one was a bad evening at the cinema. The acting was lame, the story was predictable, the dialogs terrible. Certainly I did not expect a masterpiece, just funny 90 minutes, but this was one of those movies where you look at your watch to often. You might enjoy this film at home on DVD, but do not spend money on the cinema version. Yes, it is just a comedy, but it is not a very good one. Yes the story is a modern fairy tale, but it is not fun to watch.I am sure that there will be an American remake of this movie in a few month.