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14 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :- Simple, but irresistible when you're in the right mood!, 15 May 2005 Author: Victor Noordland from Netherlands
Le Gendarme et les Extra Terrestres is one of the last episodes in the "gendarme"-series, situated in the beautiful south of France (St. Tropez).Louis de Funes again plays Ludovic Cruchot. When his colleague-gendarme Beaupied (Maurice Risch) sees a flying saucer, no one believes him. Not much later however, Cruchot also sees the saucer. The two gendarmes try to convince their colleagues that they must do something to defeat the aliens, especially when it becomes clear that these aliens can copy the looks of anyone they like, including the gendarmes. But how do you catch aliens you can not distinguish from your own colleagues? Don't complain about the special effects. They are bad. The saucer, when flying, is very poorly pasted in the film, especially in the final scene where it flies over the St Tropez harbor. It doesn't matter, even contributes to the overall fun-factor of this movie.The movie contains more than enough memorable scenes, that is if you like its kind of humour. De Funes singing in a nuns-choir is hilarious. De Funes patting everybody on the back (to check if they sound hollow) and stabbing his boss in his ass (because he thinks he's an alien) is great. Also the scenes where Baupied's alien look-a like offers him a flower and where De Funes' cap is set on fire by an alien are classics. The movie gives him enough room to display his famous neurotic character. A must see for fans of De Funes and of French comedy. 7/10 points.
5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- Better each time you view it!, 6 November 2000 Author: david rayner from Oxford, UK
This comedy is full of background jokes which you don't spot the first time round, (or even 3rd time). Funes is brilliant. We saw this several times on a rainy holiday! My kids loved it.The plot meanders a bit. Comedy without gross-out, those were the days!!
1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- Agreeable comedy about the likable gendarmes plenty of crazy humor, 17 December 2008 Author: ma-cortes from Santander Spain
Botcher Cruchot encounter himself attempting save the people of Saint Tropez from an invasion of outer space humanoid aliens. As always appear customary gendarmes partners, Marechals(Michael Modo,Maurice Risch,Jean Pierre Rambal,Guy Grosso), chief adjutant Jerome(Michael Galabru), but no the sympathetic Jean Lefevre.When see an outer space saucer the Gendarmerie Nationale is revolutionized, Ludovic Cruchot(Louis De Funes) goes into in action, and he's secretly moving in disguise , dressing as a nun. The only way to discover the Extra-Terrestres from real human is which they feel deep thirst and take compulsively oil drinks; furthermore they sound like empty metallic cans when they punch them. Then, the highlights happen when the aliens impersonate as gendarmes and the events go wrong.This is an amusing story, and pretty entertaining farce with the master comic Luis De Funes. Lively situations full of slapstick, slapdash and too much fun. The pic contains a light criticism to French police called Nationale Gendarmerie.Louis De Funes undertakes several adventures, overacting, as always, as he puts intense mocking faces, grimaces, tongue twister, and lots of mimic gesticulation. Claude Gensac, as habitual Ludovic Cruchot's spouse, she collaborated five films as wife, however this time doesn't appear, being substituted by Maria Mauban. Fine local photography with luminous sun under St. Tropez's blue sky. Lively and catching musical score by Raymond Lefevre includes usual leitmotif with musical background on habitual ending parade where the gendarmes are replaced by false aliens. However packs a cheesy and ridiculous special effects referred on the flying saucer. The movie is ingeniously written and directed by ordinary director series, Jean Girault. If you like Funes' nutty acting, you'll like this one.Another movies about our intimate gendarmes are the following. ¨Gendarme of St. Tropez, Gendarme get marries, Gendarme at New York, Gendarme takes off, and the last acting of the great Louis De Funes, an authentic farceur: ¨Gendarme and the Gendarmettes¨.
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