Just Visiting (2001)

Director:

Jean-Marie Poiré

Writers (WGA):

Jean-Marie Poiré (1993 screenplay Les Visiteurs) and
Christian Clavier (1993 screenplay Les Visiteurs) ...

Release Date:

6 April 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy

Tagline:

They Came. They Saw. They Wanna Go Back.

Plot:

A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard...

Plot Keywords:

Alternative Timeline | Farting Scene | Altering History | Future Time Travel | Alternate History

Cast

Jean Reno	...	Count Thibault of Malfete
Christina Applegate	...	Julia Malfete / Princess Rosalind
Christian Clavier	...	André le Pâté
Matt Ross	...	Hunter Cassidy
Tara Reid	...	Angelique
Bridgette Wilson	...	Amber (as Bridgette Wilson-Sampras)
John Aylward	...	Byron
George Plimpton	...	Dr. Brady
Malcolm McDowell	...	The Wizard
Sarah Badel	...	Queen
Bill Bailey	...	Thibault's Father
Clare Welch	...	Thibault's Mother
Kendra Torgan	...	Thibault's Sister #1
Lucy Blair	...	Thibault's Sister #2
Richard Bremmer	...	King Henry

Also Known As:

Visiteurs en Amérique, Les (France)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and crude humor.

Runtime:

88 min | Spain:84 min (DVD edition)

Country:

France | USA

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Astrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Iceland:LH | Malaysia:U | Canada:PG | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:6 | Philippines:G | South Korea:12 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG (cut) | USA:PG-13 | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Company:

Hollywood Pictures

Trivia:

Count Thibault and André attack a red SUV, saying, "Look! A red dragon!" In the original French 1993 version, they demolish a yellow postal van but first scare off its black driver, saying, "Look! A Moor!" The scene was fiddled for "racial sensitivity".

Goofs:

Continuity: Julia's shoes change between shots when she first meets Thibault.

Quotes:

Count Thibault: He belongs to me. I decide his fate.
André le Pate: No master! I mean, no way Jose!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

You are more than a rose. You are love's own flower.

This is certainly a different vehicle for Jean Reno, one of my favorites. He plays a 12th Century Knight that is thrust into the 21st Century due to a goof by his Wizard (Malcolm McDowell). He runs into a descendant, 30 generations removed, in the form of Christina Applegate, who just happens to be the spitting image of his wife.

You have your basic time-travel story 12th Century in 21st Century and the usual gaffs and laughs that are to be expected. Tara Reid played an interesting part as the gardener next door that convinces Reno's servant to stay.

Brigette Wilson (I Know What You Did Last Summer, House on Haunted Hill) also struts her stuff for our viewing pleasure.

Not a great film, but I do enjoy Jean Reno, and I like time-travel movies, so it was worth 88 minutes of my life.