Philippe Lacheau relaunches his cascading lie machine

THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – TO SEE

Babysitting 1 And 2, Nicky Larson and the perfume of Cupid, Super-Hero in spite of himself… Here is the return of the pasticheur Philippe Lacheau − he must be running well at 2 million admissions on average −, who continues here with Alibi.com 2, second opus of a first dated 2017. Grégory Van Huffel (Philippe Lacheau), surrounded by his two acolytes, Augustin (Julien Arruti) and Mehdi (Tarek Boudali), creates an agency intended to provide concrete alibis to people who, authors of more or less criminal behavior, have a pressing need. The film focuses fairly quickly on the person of the father of his girlfriend, who wants to clear himself of an extramarital relationship, which forces Grégory, who is already lying to his partner about his real profession, to redouble his hypocrisy.

We have in this pitch one of the virtues of Lacheau’s cinema, compared to the wordy all-comers of French popular comedy, which consists of an accumulation of hazards bordering on nonsense, even pure burlesque (many stunts, objects flywheels received in the face, of catastrophic mechanical sequences).

It will be a question here for Greg to consolidate by a marriage in good and due form his relationship with Flo, undermined by his lies. Who says marriage says presentation of the parents, and here is the problem, since those of Greg are respectively a small-scale crook (Gérard Jugnot) and an ex-porn actress (Arielle Dombasle), who live apart and cannot suffer each other.

Twisted Contest of Circumstances

What, indeed, to reopen the agency for an ultimate forfeiture: the commitment of false parents (Catherine Benguigui and Georges Corraface), in the perspective of presenting them to those of Flo, respectively interpreted by Didier Bourdon and Nathalie Baye. By a twisted combination of circumstances, the four real parents and the two false ones will be led to celebrate two parallel marriages in adjoining houses, while Greg, as double married and agency director, as well as his team, made up of a blunderer and a narcoleptic, work in vain to avoid a catastrophe that nothing seems to prevent.

Before the happy ending of the convention, which closes all of Lacheau’s films, we will appreciate, among other joyous cruelties which have never ceased to be denied, to have passed through the North African subsidiary of Alibi.com directed by the king of tinkers, Gad Elmaleh, and that a car overturns, moreover, Patrick Fiori, surprise attraction of one of the weddings, before he has time to sing.