Thanks for the memories!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

How would anyone react knowing that someone considered to be a good friend, has disparaging things to say about him? Betrayed, comes to mind, to put it mildly. Something like this is what happens to Jean- Claude and Mathilde, who are to be the guests of their good friends, Max and Lucie at their beautiful modernistic home in an idyllic setting in the country. Jean-Claude and Mathilde happen to hear a conversation from their hosts on their cell phone, unwillingly, in which long kept feelings about the visitors are expressed openly, to the total amazement of their friends, who are just sitting ducks listening to what the other party really think about them. What to do? Go on pretending as though nothing happened, or, get back at Max and Lucie in their own way? A plan for revenge is the only solution.Mathilde is fuming! While the more philosophical Jean-Claude just goes along with the revenge she wants to play just as soon as they reach their so-called friends' house. To make it even worse, their hosts have even offended their chubby young son, Cesar, which is going down too low. As they arrive, Mathilde begins her plan to derail the week-end at Max and Lucie's by finding fault with everything her friend proudly shows for her to admire. Spilling red wine on the white sofa is enough to send Lucie mad with rage.Julien Rambaldi, the director of this acerbic French comedy, co-wrote the screenplay with Guy Laurent, based on an idea by Caroline Greep. The result is a funny comedy in which the possibility of learning a well kept secret opinion of dear people can derail a friendship forever, something that is not too far fetched in real life, but in here, it sets the premise for a lot of laughs when the visiting guests learn they are not really well regarded, much less welcomed in their home.Marc Lavoine and Pascal Arbillot appear as Max and Lucie. Pierre- Francois Martin-Laval and Lea Druker play the visitors. Both couples are well matched in the situations they were asked to do. Even though that getting even is the object, the nastiness is fun to watch. There are some funny moments in which a new toilet-bidet combination plays tricks on the unsuspecting visitors.

Perhaps made with "Harry Un Ami Qui Vous Veut Du Bien" in mind and (perhaps) trying to capitalize on its success,"Les Meilleurs Amis Du Monde" begins quite well but finally degenerates into finer feelings complete with a hunters choir !While en route to their friends' desirable mention,a couple and their son hear a conversation on the phone:their two "pals" are not exactly praising them :the husband is a washout ,a loser ,and the woman is compared to an ironing board in bed.Not exactly kind from two friends.They decide to take their revenge.The woman makes the superb new sofa dirty,the boy kills the spoiled child's hamster and so on.. But the poor man is no match for his athletic macho friend (Marc Lavoine ) who tires him out as he takes him for a jogging or a hunting in the woods.There are some good moments ,particularly in the first part,with a notable liking for scatology (the toilet seat is a mini computer which is able of anal recognition(!);the loser's new invention is none other than "special" toilet paper ...It's pretty low-level but it's rather nasty.But its ending à la Frank Capra comes at the most awkward moment and the screenwriters are not Billy Wilder or Henri Jeanson.Best performance comes from Pascale Arbillot ,a non-desperate housewife ,Barbie Doll style ,who looks like an "actress" in commercials (like a Stepford wife ,if you know what I mean).Marc Lavoine overplays ,the best thing to do with a clichéd part.