. . . nor is BON VOYAGE as successful as Quentin Taratino's film in establishing a consistent tone of black humor. Instead, this flick is a more typical French farce, in which many character actions are poorly motivated and in which major degrees of plausibility can be sacrificed for one (the director hopes) "good" slapstick gag on the part of the film crew. Well, spoofing WWII requires more finesse than BON VOYAGE offers, especially something set in France, where 99% of the population was so hell-bent in helping the Germans to exterminate French-speaking Jews and to defeat the allies overall. It is totally ludicrous that the scientist chick is yelling at the top of her lungs on a crowded city street about Heavy Water and Atomic Bombs in 1940!!
Review of Bon Voyage
