Eye Candy #425 - "OSS 117 - Cairo, Nest of Spies"

OSS 117 - Cairo, Nest of Spies:  A very broad French spoof of Bond-type spy movies, involving the titular agent OSS 117, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (played by Jean Dujardin), who in addition to be sexist and wildly politically incorrect, is dumber than a post.  He is sent to Cairo, which is a nest of spies, to investigate the death of fellow agent Jack Jefferson with whom he has a history (shown in flashback, it’s more than little homoerotic).  Immediately he is a fish out of water and knee deep in international intrigue, involving the Soviets, Nazis, and Muslim extremists, in addition to pissing off everyone around him, including punching a muezzin that was calling people to prayer because he interrupted his sleep.  Dujardin brings the appropriate levels of slick and silly to Hubert.  And the film works hard to get you to laugh, throwing in a high number of jokes, most of which don’t hit, but they don’t give up trying and some do hit the mark and it gets better as it goes along.  There is also a sequel.  I enjoyed it for what it was.  Woodchuck sez, “Might be up your alley.”