Thin as paper characters grow and change as predictably as humanly possible in this contrived comedy "based on a true story." From François Cluzet and Omar Sy's insipid meet-cute to the film's refusal to show the ugliness of the class divide, racism or paralysis, there's really nothing to admire here. Lame jokes involve stuffy white people dancing to Earth, Wind & Fire or Sys laughing at an opera singer's ostentatious costume. Nothing is too cheap for a laugh here, particularly in the form of homophobia (i.e. the reveal that a frigid female who rejects Sys's advances is a lesbian, the gay panic Sys experiences when he has to put stockings on Cluzet's legs). This is the lowest form of crowd-pleasing filmmaking.
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