Les Visiteurs [Import anglais]

A Jurassic Park-beating blockbuster in its native France, Les Visiteurs derives vast comic mileage from the simplest of high-concept premises. After a wizard gets a spell muddled up, the 12th-century knight Count Godefroy (Jean Reno) and his Baldrick-like servant Jacquouille (Christian Clavier) are accidentally propelled into the future, ending up in 1992. It s a terrifyingly unfamiliar world, full of self-propelling devil s chariots and bewildering appliances, populated by people who speak a language barely recognisable as good old medieval French. But at least Godefroy s old castle remains standing (even if it s now a hotel), and when he runs into Béatrice (Valérie Lemercier), direct descendant of his lost love Frénégonde, there s a chance that he might be able to pick up the threads of his life nearly nine centuries later and possibly even get back home. Like Blackadder, it s a mixture of the rude and crude and the surprisingly sophisticated.