I'll give it a 3 on account of DuJardin's sex appeal, teeth, eyebrow movements and body language. But I mean, the humor is pretty darned facile rating a polite tee-hee here and there at best.I was perusing other negative reviews I guess god help you if you were to take this movie seriously but I can hardly imagine anybody so doing, but evidently some people have done so.But hey at least it didn't win the Oscar for best picture or even more ridiculously in the case of "The Artist" best score. That's something to be grateful for:Thank you very much (I needed another line).

A spoof on James Bond about OSS operative stunningly performed by Jean Dujardin . Comedy spy-thriller with Jean Dujardin as inept secret agent versus nasty high-ranking Nazis and arms smugglers . Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis , beds local beauties , and brings peace as well as mayhem to Cairo . It's 1955 by time of dictator Nasser and the secret agent Hubert Bonisseur De la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117 is ordered a dangerous investigation in Cairo , there he has to take his place at the head of a poultry firm . Hubert Bonisseur is the French spy considered by his superiors to be the best in the business , this time his assistant is the charming Egiptyan agent Larmina performed by Berenice Bejo , director's wife . He's been sent on a mission to El Cairo , Port Said , to look for a former agent who has been eliminated . His eventful mission takes him all across Egypt accompanied by a beautiful girl and taking on a lot of adventures , risks and double-crosses . The man is charming , and so is the young girl spy . Filmed on luxurious sets their tale is by turns an exciting intrigue and a love story . He acts as a playboy , this results to be his cover while he is busy investigating , foiling Nazi holdout and bedding local beauties . Hubert Bonisseur De la Bath, a French spy, is in Cairo to investigate the disappearance a French agent . He is he smart spy , or is he an imbecile ? He fights well but he's supremely smug and self-confident, even as he's deaf to cultural nuance and others' feelings , so the odds are even that he might survive .Funny moments along with embarrassing in this first entry about secret agent OSS 117 with a likable Jean Dujardin , role of the accidental spy who doesn't know fear or danger in this comedy spy-thriller . In this entertaining adventure , the most unlikely intelligence officer in French Secret Service must stop a group of international Nazi conspirators , quelling a fundamentalist rebellion and deal with an intrigue about weapon smuggling . Hubert Bonisseur, a French secret agent who dreams of rising beyond his menial job within the OSS organization, after all the other agents are bumped off is hired to discover a mysterious ring . With one shot at redemption, he must employ all kind of means to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout an ambitious plot . Hubert must use every trick in his play-book to achieve his objectives . For Hugo Bonisseur, disaster may be an option, but failure never is. This original installment is an acceptable comedy though the formula is well known with 'The Pink Panther' series and recently with 'Johnnny English' by Rowan Atkinson . It stars clumsy Jean Dujardin as one man show accompanied by a gorgeous Berenice Bejo . The movie gets entertaining and hilarious moments here and there. This slapstick picture contains amusing , funny scenes , fresh and diverting moments but also flaws and gaps . Jean Dujardin steals the show parodying the ordinary international secret agent , James Bond-alike , including his ordinary faces , grimaces and gestures ; he plays stunningly the highly unorthodox agent, the inept and bungler secret agent from OSS . There appears two beauties as Berenice Bejo and Aure Atica . The actors seem to enjoy themselves immensely giving funny interpretations . Lively and atmospheric music by Ludovic Bource . Colorful and glimmer cinematography by Schiffman . Other films about this famous spy are the followings : "O.S.S. 117 Is Not Dead" with Ivan Desny ; "Panic en Bangkok" with Kerwin Mathews ; "OSS 117: Mission for a Killer" with Frederick Stafford ; "OSS 117 Double Agent" played by John Gavin and "Vendetta of espies" performed by Luc Merenda . The film was well penned and directed by Michel Hazanavicius that maintains the slapstick franchise . He also directed in similar style to the original film a sequel titled ¨OSS 117 Lost in Rio¨ with Jean Dujarjin , Rudiger Vogler and Louise Monot . Director and actors , Dujardin and Berenice Bejo , will repeat in the successful and recent ¨The artist¨ including Golden Globes and Oscars . Several chuckles and gags , the result of which is one acceptable entry on spoof genre . The flick will appeal to comedy buffs and Jrean Dujardin fans .

Michel Hazanavicius' film OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a deathfully unfunny French spoof comedy which takes something both successful and British and tries to lampoon it in such a manner that just sees it mutate into a series of incomprehensible plot twists; aggressive humour and gender related riffs which cross a proverbial line. The film is a tired and often plodding piece, a scourge to sit through and is as difficult therein to find the humour as the title is an unfunny mouthful. That item of which is (or was) both British and is (or, was more) successful is that of the James Bond franchise; a series whose spoof highlights peaked with 1999's Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me – which to many, is really saying something. Yes, I suppose, when we look its title, we observe that the letters OSS sort of look like an abbreviation for that of the 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service; and yes, we observe that 117 is a slight away from 007; and yes, also, when the film begins, we look at its precredit sequence plus credits and think to ourselves that indeed, it does remind us of a Bond related opening. But so what? As lumbered and as ordained as this paragraph has been, the lumbering and ordained spoofing has started; and the laughs do not rack up.Regardless of what people might say about the OSS 117 idea predating Bond, there is very little defense for this 2006 film to keep clear of accusations of being a riffing on said agent. We begin with that opening precredits tidbit; a black and white sequence in 1945 Berlin featuring our man of the hour, a certain Hubert Bonisseur (Dujardin), the titular agent OSS 117. The man manages to foil a Nazi plot by way of infiltrating certain higher-ups associated with the organisation before hijacking a plane out of there and still being able to turn the tables when faced with a near-death scenario. He works with a man named Jack on the mission, teamwork an item fairly high up on the skills list. Jean Dujardin cuts quite a dash as a younger Sean Connery; his smirks, facial expressions and general pose therein constantly reminding us of such an actor playing a certain spy not so long after this film is set.As, I believe, James Bond's did with the British; his misadventures with the French secret service continue after The War and into the 1950s, his dear friend Jack, of whom it's established appeared to mean a lot to him via some overly aggressive and wholly unfunny homo-erotic beach set flashbacks, goes missing in Egypt. Bonisseur's mission is to journey to the region and investigate that disappearance as well as defuse a delicate situation brooding involving the super powers situated there. As a stand alone piece, the film is unable to make up its mind as to whether it's coming or going; its narrative eventually opens up into all manner of stupefying double-crosses and sub-plots: a neo-fascist ring that's operating going hand in hand with a missing warship which the film attempts to balance with an odd corporate power exchange involving a poultry company and a missing father of one of the heroines who was once at the forefront of a domestic coup. Very little of it amounts to anything at all, and by the time the film has entered its final stretch, we are a long way from caring.So if the narrative is a dead zone, what of the humour? As a spoof, it takes itself far too seriously and is far too involved with its story of power exchanges and political strife to be able to truthfully relax into so that a gentle motion of spoof comedy may play out. Despite the opening, Agent 117 is surprisingly inept; needlessly manoeuvring himself into hazardous situations and with a shocking lack of insight into his North African surroundings. His presence in an Arabic world, as he attempts to do what he does, carries with it an uneasy and somewhat heavy-handed allegory about Western agencies stuck in the Arabic world and struggling to wholly adjust to their surroundings - items more broadly linked to that of current events in The Middle East. Here, played out under a flustered canopy of laughs including, but not limited to, sequences in which Agent 117 charges up a Minaret purely so that he can violently silence a holy man praying at a reasonably late hour in order to catch some sleep. I know, I didn't laugh either.Another area of concern is the veering over of the line which separates genuine pastiche with a more literal indulgence; the attitudes towards woman here, I believe, beginning as harmless send-ups of certain Bond films of old that carried with them undercurrents of chauvinism. Here, they slowly mutate away from spoof and into territory which gradually gets more unpleasant and more aggressive, their humiliation and objectification slowly turning the overall tide into something actually quite unsavoury. Take, for instance, the sequence in which a woman is chained to a bar above her and then, for very little reason, must suffer the leering of the camera for several seconds as she gently sways around clad in her underwear and bra. The film's few, fleeting moments of genuine peril or comedy are sparse; a fez wearing spy who cannot help but update the enemy on Agent 117's presence because it is his job gets a subtle laugh but the film is too empty of any genuine mirth-worthy content. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a grossly unbalanced affair, often overly violent and with some misplaced imagery, a poorly directed and unfunny spoof which says nothing on political situations; cannot recall nor properly caricaturise popular material and is just embedded with this ill-disciplined undercurrent of assailment.

This was a terribly funny and enjoyable film--so much so that I look forward to seeing the next movie in this series. Jean Dujardin stars as OSS agent 117--an incredibly cocky yet stupid hero. In many ways, he's like combining James Bond and Indiana Jones with Inspector Clousseau. That's because although his character is an idiot, he's also incredibly physical and a bit macho---and amazingly cocky about it. The combination works well--with a character you like but is still rather unique.The film starts towards the end of WWII. This portion is highly reminiscent of Indiana Jones or an old movie serial--it's action and a cocky appeal. After defeating the Hun, Agent 117 return home--a hero. Now, in the next scene, a decade has passed and he's being sent to Cairo on his next case. Once there, he walks about like he just KNOWS all the women adore him--and again and again he makes a total nuisance of himself. Yet, because he IS still a macho guy, he's able to defeat the baddies and conquer the ladies despite his severely stunted intellect. I loved how the film focused on how incredibly insensitive his character was when it came to Islam--and the scene involving the morning call to prayer is priceless. Despite a nice idea and many clever moments, the film is occasionally a bit slow or loses pace. But, this is not a serious problem and the end result is a different sort of film hero--one you really want to see again.By the way, look for the scene where 117 is tossed into the water to die. While this scene was poorly done in some ways (skeletons do NOT look like that--the bones do NOT remain articulated once the flesh is gone), I loved how incredibly cocky he was--as after he escaped, he very slowly and very casually made his way to the surface. Clever.