 | |
List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 13387
Released: September 11, 2001 |
| Our Price: $4.40 |
| Used Price: $3.89 |
|
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
|
Editorial Review:
JUST VISITING is one very funny fish-out-of-water comedy the whole family will enjoy. It's 12th century France and Count Thibault of Malfete (Jean Reno, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE) finds his beautiful bride-to-be (Christina Applegate, TV's JESSE) done in by malevolent magic. So he and his loyal servant Andre (Christian Clavier, LES VISITEURS) request the help of a local wizard to right the wrong and bring his beloved back. But the wizardry goes awry and the pair is transported to 21st century Chicago where they meet Thibault's descendant Julia (Applegate) and her scheming fiance. With their timeless values of honor and courage, they wreak hilarious havoc as they foil diabolical plots in modern-day Chicago and try to find their way back home.
Description of Just Visiting:
Actors Jean Reno and Christian Clavier, along with director Jean-Marie Poiré, were the creative team behind The Visitors, a French comedy from the early 1990s that was a massive hit in its native land and a cult favorite in America. Enthusiastically compared by some to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Visitors concerns a time-traveling, medieval knight and his lowly servant, both lost in the 20th century and both shocked by the discovery of their descendants' reversal of fortunes. The film works not only as a nutty bit of slapstick, but as a cheeky satire about class conflict. The Visitors deserves its admirers, but it doesn't deserve Just Visiting, an oddly inappropriate remake featuring the same cast and director, all of whom are undercut by an annoyingly sentimental spin on the original story. This time, Reno and Clavier inexplicably end up in a modern-day U.S. instead of France, and the lure of freedom for Clavier's downtrodden character is tied up not in economics but in his attachment to a fetching neighbor. Blame cowriter John Hughes (Home Alone) for turning something that was once sharp into something dull and sticky. With Christina Applegate, Malcolm McDowell. --Tom Keogh
Just Visiting Reviews:
Great story for a side splitting comedy ! 
2009-11-13 - A great subject and story for a very funny comedy . It was done so well direction and cast were great lots of side splitting laughs and enjoyment. I loved it .
Just Visiting - Excellent Movie!
2009-09-16 - Hello I'm an autistic adult.
This is my review on Just Visiting.
I love mideval movies one day I was flipping through the channels on the tv & came across this movie. I loved it. I have it on the DVR & watch it almost every day. It's hilarious Jeno Reno I never get tired of watching of him he's a excellent actor. This movie is so funny these two guys get sent to future from the mideval times era I love this it's hilarious. Oh I saw the french version there is alot of stuff left out of the american version which is really sad. But both movies are good.
Watch the movie is really funny & good for all ages.
Happy Movie Hunting!
such a funny, and over all great film!!... a must have in my own personal opinion....
2009-08-02 - i have always heard various things about this particular movie, and at first, i wasent so sure i even wanted to ever see it, but i later on decided, id give it a chance, so i rented it from our local library, and im so glad i did... i love this movie, and for someone who dosent usually laugh, at even a movie where most people tend to if it is generally a funny type movie, i laughed my ass off through the entire thing.... i love how this movie has such a rennisance type feel to it, and even though i do not recognize the french actors who play the knight, and his man servant, i think they do a hell of an acting job... ive always loved christina applegate, from her role in "dont tell mom the babysitters dead", and as ditzy, brain dead kelly in married with children, and i think she also does a hell of an acting job in this as well.... in all, im just so glad i finally gave this movie a chance.... very funny, well written, and just a great movie to own in all.... comes highly reccomended in my own personal opinion...... a good family film as well i must agree.......
Entertaining And Family Viewable. 
2008-05-12 - The plot, a medieval knight time-transported to the present, is silly. But the cast stays fateful to the script and manages to make it entertaining and funny. It is not for deep-thought; just go for the ride!
Great hilarious movie thats safe for the family
2008-04-06 - Good funny movie that is relatively unknown. Its also safe for the family since it doesnt have much cussing or any nudity.
