C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule

This 1975 French comedy has an appealing title. Unfortunately, that is about all that's funny about it. It's hard to believe that this attempt at humor dates from a time when Monty Python was a well established series.

The film is so bad that I did not manage to watch all of it, so perhaps I missed the best part. In the story, a couple of aspiring burglars want to make a hole in the wall of a public toilet in order to reach a safe in the adjacent building. Hence they keep changing disguises to enter the cubicle multiple times, each time smuggling some debris out. That is funny for two or three times but it becomes unbearable if the same sketch is repeated, with great detail, 16 times. I didn't count them: oddly enough, the disguises are listed here.

It's not the actors fault: Bernard Blier, Michel Serrault and Jean Lefebvre have all participated in much better comedies such as (in the case of Jean Lefebvre) Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez.

Don't waste time on this.

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