Husband to Rent

Les bandes-annonces ne m’ont pas spécialement impressionné, mais pour une fin d’année, rien de tel qu’une bonne petite comédie déjantée. Cela dit, je ne m’attendais pas à une salle comble ! S’agirait-il du dernier petit succès de Noël pour les Tchèques ? Je l’évalue à trois étoiles et demie, mais vu qu’il fait partie des meilleures productions tchèques l'année, je vais arrondir vers le haut. Les quatre acteurs principaux m’étaient déjà acquis, donc difficile d’être déçu de ce côté, et leurs pendantes féminines n’avaient rien à leur envier. Les blagues marrantes sont plus nombreuses que les ratées ou que les passages embarrassants et je suis donc satisfait. (29/12/2014)

Handyman could have been a pretty decent comedy if the creators hadn’t lost their judgement a couple of times without being able to find it again. Several scenes felt like they were intended for an audience suffering from dementia, and I was going to give two stars, but then I added a third one for well-written and even better-cast characters. Too bad about those goofs, this film had much more potential. (24/02/2020)

A traditional Czech film. It has a few good ideas, but otherwise, it is very ordinary, it’s all been seen hundreds of times before, and it’s interchangeable and ultimately useless. The basic idea has been seen in plenty of other films and really the only interesting thing here is the room at the bottom of a drained pool. Honestly, that's not enough for one, let alone two films. (25/04/2020)

The Handyman is exactly the type of comedy that I would be happy to give four stars to, but it just doesn’t work, even if I close both of my eyes. But it’s a comedy that is more or less nice. I laughed, the characters couldn’t be more pleasant, I wasn't bored. What more could one want from a comedy? Perhaps only if there were no scenes that made me think that this film actually doesn’t need them. For a film to present me with David Novotný screwing Jitka Čvančarová and on top of that acting as if it was cool to do such things in a movie was really baffling. I have nothing against sex scenes in general, but here they felt just completely out of place and made an otherwise fine comedy cringy. (13/10/2015)

Sexist jokes like the ones in Husband to Rent are repugnant to me. In particular, the storyline revolving around David Novotný and Jitka Čvančarová disgusted me so much that I am unable to objectively judge whether the rest of the film is watchable or not. (35%) (31/01/2022)