"Volcano Confrontation": The road is narrow and noisy in Europe, and the French road is full of joy

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Personal impression, romantic French people are world-class in comedy, and it is very surprising that they can not only make that kind of romantic comedy with emotional pulse and delicate and funny, such as "Butterfly" and "Paris Naughty Gang", but also make crazy comedies such as "Tiger's Mouth Escape" and "Taxi Express". "Volcano Confrontation" should belong to the latter kind, and as a road comedy, playing is too high, sea, land and air are used, the film is probably the craziest I have seen in the road comedy or similar joyful story mode, really did not have this name in vain.

The title of "Volcano Confrontation" is very interesting, a couple who have been divorced for many years, regard each other as mortal enemies, and accidentally meet on the plane on the way to their daughter's wedding, because the volcanic eruption caused the cancellation of the flight, and the two people had to use various ways to toss from Munich, Germany to Greece. And the interesting thing about the film is that, such as the typical kilometer comedy such as "Tai 囧", "Falling hard to see the truth", "Due date", the collocation of the two protagonists is from not knowing each other to being forced to partner, and the character setting is one is a spit madness, one is two hundred and five, a bit similar to the praise and teasing in crosstalk, the two personalities complement each other, one is cold and mean, one is enthusiastic and two. It's hard to say who gave whom the green leaf, just like in "The Eighth Day", when the two protagonists are together.

And "Volcano Confrontation" is different, first of all, the two are many years of wrongdoers, dead opponents, eager to hack each other to death. After the encounter, the two are very strong, changing the pattern of mutual dismantling, which does not have the main guest configuration of "Tai 囧" that spits vs. the daze, but fights all the way like the narrow road of the wrongdoer. The advantage of this is that the two characters have their own plays, that is to say, when they are separated, the independent characters themselves can also produce a good dramatic conflict, and they do not have to bind the two people together like "Tai 囧", so the two people in the film are separated for a period of time, and each has a good comedic effect. Of course, the role configuration of this film also has a disadvantage, that is, it is necessary to portray the personalities of the two protagonists at a very deep level, and it is necessary to occupy a certain plot space to dig out the stories on their respective bodies, so there are many hooks and forks, unlike the opening of "Tai 囧".

The film opens on the plane to outline the story of the two separately, with the help of introducing their families to the neighbors of the plane to introduce the plot, quickly introduce the divorced family to the audience in the form of photos, when shown to the two people in a group photo, each of them shields each other's heads in a vicious way, one is scratched with a knife, and the other is burned with a cigarette butt. Although the opening paragraph is not long, it is very good in the play, with a very strong sense of involvement, allowing the audience to immediately enter the story of the two.

The subsequent story is like many road movies, two people from driving a car together, to hitchhiking, to living in a hotel, and finally even driving a plane, riding in the same boat, using various means of transportation and rooms to bind two incompatible people, and the same repulsive men and women use small spaces to rigidly bind together, resulting in countless jokes. The jokes here focus on tricks, because everyone is racking their brains to figure out how to take each other away, such as Xu Zheng in "Tai Yuan" only uses some tricks in the first half to keep Wang Baoqiang away from himself, while this film is almost throughout, including sneaking away in the morning, buying the other party a ticket for the opposite, and leaving the luggage everywhere. Surprisingly, although this film is a male and female partner, but belongs to the male dick vs the female man is similar, the combat effectiveness is comparable, from the male protagonist rented a Porsche panamera but will not get the heroine to mock the beginning (the film is obvious panamera marketing, but not blunt at all, but integrated into the plot, such as the heroine stole the key to fly alone, but found that there is no password or can not open), to the two in the Catholic caravan to play real people kombat, the big sword, shield, crossbow all on the battlefield, It's hilarious.

Seeing the second half of the movie, I really don't know how to end it, the two are forced to fight side by side in order to catch their daughter's wedding, crossing the border, stealing cars, stealing planes, and even crashing planes, causing heavy anger in Romanian villages and being wanted by European police. So the two volcanic characters bumping into each other together made half a European chicken dog restless. Compared with the starring Danny Bourne's last mainland film "Elopement Plan B", this film is not as pretentious as the latter, but it is simple and direct. If the whole film of "Elopement Plan B" is like playing Tai Chi, then "Volcano Confrontation" definitely belongs to the mixed martial arts MMA, how crazy and how to come, there is no need to hide it. Something's going on? There is no need to end at all, the two people at the end caught up with the wedding, in a sweet and warm atmosphere the movie is about to end, did not expect that at the end came a heavy taste, people were surprised. This is the tone of the film, such as a combination of punches, a round after another round, so that the film as a whole remains in a high mood.

Starring Danny Bourne is a French comedy star I like very much, the heroine of the film is a bit overheated, but Danny Bourne is definitely the biggest attraction, starting from "Welcome to the North", to "Enjoy the Game", "Elopement Plan B", until "Volcano Confrontation", this gives people the feeling of all written on the face, the whole person is a 囧字, this film is different from the past in that in addition to the thick nature, there is also a little more cleverness and grandfather, the result is like letting Wang Baoqiang play the evil villain, more than two.