Safari

April. 01,2009      
Rating:
4.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some mobster, he is compelled to convey a fake tourist, with a suspicious suitcase, toward Mozambic. To avoid suspicion from the authorities, he is supposed to tour a group of tourists as usual. The only problem - he is completely unexperienced as a guide!

Kad Merad as  Richard Dacier
Lionel Abelanski as  Benoît
Frédérique Bel as  Fabienne
Guy Lecluyse as  Bertrand
David Saracino as  Rémi
Nicolas Marié as  Monsieur Charles
Yannick Noah as  Sagha
Omar Sy as  Youssouf Hammal
Valérie Benguigui as  Magalie

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Reviews

Konterr
2009/04/01

Brilliant and touching

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Baseshment
2009/04/02

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Invaderbank
2009/04/03

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Quiet Muffin
2009/04/04

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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dbdumonteil
2009/04/05

A good potential ,and a very good lead,as talented in comedies as he is in drama.Plus Africa's superb wild life .But it does not make a good movie for all that .After a promising start ,the movie gets bogged down in unfunny situations (the customs officer)and repetitive tricks (Beauvais town ,it may be riotously funny the first time,but the third or fourth time,well...This story of an inexperienced safari guide could have been a hilarious spoof on many adventures movie.But it falls short of its goal:the scene of the elephant attacking the "raiders" in their car is ponderous.Too bad ,it's really a missed opportunity!

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vincent_spano
2009/04/06

Richard DACIER owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some mobster, he is compelled to convey a fake tourist, with a suspicious suitcase, toward Mozambic. To avoid suspicion from the authorities, he is supposed to tour a group of tourists as usual. The only problem : he is completely unexperienced as a guide ! Hence follows a comedy which is basically a tour of Kruger park. Some funny moments, and if you do not expect too much, pretty watchable movie.

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