Spoilers Louis unheimliche Begegnung mit den Außerirdischen / Le Gendarme et les Extraterristres / The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials

[CaptainCalvinCat]

Picture it:
France - roughly in the seventies. Two police officers (Ludovic Cruchot and a cop called Beaupied) are on patrol, when suddenly, their car stops. Cruchot sends Beaupied to go away, since he's annoying him - so the flick does, as he's told. He approaches a clearing and stops: a flying saucer is standing there, blinking and suddenly flying away. Of course, Cruchot doesn't believe Beaupied. Later he and his boss, Jérôme Gerbert, go on patrol and again the car stops at the same place. Now Cruchot is sent away, he is approaching the clearing and - again: He sees the UFO.

And of course, no one believes him. Sure, there is a media-outrage, but neither Gerbert, nor their bosses, believe Cruchot - in especially, since he starts attacking one his boss. Why? Well - Cruchot was visited by the aliens in guise of Gerbert. So - the aliens are there, in france, and they can shapeshift. What's a poor policeman gonna do - in especially, since this is a french sci-fi-comedy, one of the "Gendarme"-Movies and Cruchot is played by Louis de Funes. This can only be funny.

Well, it was for me - one of my first Sci-Fi-Movies to be exact.
Did anyone of you watch this movie? If not - I can only recommend it.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I've got to be honest with you, I've never even heard of it before now, but it certainly sounds interesting. Do you know if it's available to stream anywhere?

 

[CaptainCalvinCat]

I've got to be honest with you, I've never even heard of it before now, but it certainly sounds interesting. Do you know if it's available to stream anywhere?

Apparently - after a quick google-search - Youtube, Prime, Apple etc. all stream this - of course you need to pay, but apparently it's streamable.

 

[FPAlpha]

I was born in 75 and grew up in the 80s and 90s in Germany, so i'm very familiar with Louis de Funes comedic work and his Gendarme movie series is a comedy highlight of this era. I love them to death, have seen them countless times and they never fail to bring a smile to my face though this particular movie, the second to last of the series, wasn't as funny as the first ones.

There's other legendary de Funes movies worth checking out - What's cooking in Paris ( wacky high class restaurant owner gets embroiled in a political assassination business), Don't look now - we're being shot at ( WW2 comedy where several french men involuntarily help shot down british bomber pilots escape France) or my personal favorite The Wing or the Thigh ( publisher of a gourmet review guide, akin to the Michelin star guide, travels France and gets into all kinds of hijinks and ends up going against a villain industrial fast food producer).

These movies are old, from the 60s and 70s mostly, but they are nonetheless funny as hell to me and are part of my childhood, so i look very fondly at them and whenever they run i just enjoy a good laugh.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Ooooh, Nein! DOCH!

 

[CaptainCalvinCat]

I was born in 75 and grew up in the 80s and 90s in Germany, so i'm very familiar with Louis de Funes comedic work and his Gendarme movie series is a comedy highlight of this era. I love them to death, have seen them countless times and they never fail to bring a smile to my face though this particular movie, the second to last of the series, wasn't as funny as the first ones.

There's other legendary de Funes movies worth checking out - What's cooking in Paris ( wacky high class restaurant owner gets embroiled in a political assassination business), Don't look now - we're being shot at ( WW2 comedy where several french men involuntarily help shot down british bomber pilots escape France) or my personal favorite The Wing or the Thigh ( publisher of a gourmet review guide, akin to the Michelin star guide, travels France and gets into all kinds of hijinks and ends up going against a villain industrial fast food producer).

These movies are old, from the 60s and 70s mostly, but they are nonetheless funny as hell to me and are part of my childhood, so i look very fondly at them and whenever they run i just enjoy a good laugh.

I was born in the 80s and my formative years were the late 80s, early - to - mid 90s, and yeah... these Gendarme-movies are awesome. Another trilogy with de Funes, I can wholeheartedly recommend: Fantomas and Louis fits the role of a more hectic Juve to a T.

Ooooh, Nein! DOCH!

Oh yeah, one of the classics.
NO!
Yes.
OOOOOHHHH.