Mettons les voiles

Titre original : Nuns on the Run

1990
PG
1h 29m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,0/10

9,2 k

MA NOTE

Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle in Mettons les voiles (1990)

Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane team up for this bad boy comic burlesque directed by Jonathan Lynn.
Idle and Coltrane play Brian Hope and Charlie McManus, a pair of two-bit hoods who want to go straight, repulsed by the increasing reliance on guns and violence in their line of work. In thrall to vicious gangster Case Casey (Robert Patterson), the duo determines that their next job will be their last.
When a large amount of money is extracted from a gang of Hong Kong drug dealers and it falls into the laps of Brian and Charlie, the two take off with the loot, with the Chinese Triads, Casey and the police in relentless pursuit.
But after their car inevitably runs out of fuel in front of a convent, Brian and Charlie act quickly to disguise themselves as two of the ugliest nuns imaginable. Passing themselves as nuns from a different order awaiting a missionary assignment, the two 'men' enjoy their undercover work amongst the youthful co-eds studying at the school. Meanwhile their pursers begin to close in on their trail in this uproarious and farcical comedy.

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Comedy Crime

Deux criminels veulent fuir mais leur patron tue ceux qui partent. Lorsqu'ils reçoivent l'ordre de voler la triade, ils gardent l'argent et se cachent du patron, de la triade et de la police... Tout lireDeux criminels veulent fuir mais leur patron tue ceux qui partent. Lorsqu'ils reçoivent l'ordre de voler la triade, ils gardent l'argent et se cachent du patron, de la triade et de la police dans un couvent, habillés en nonnes.Deux criminels veulent fuir mais leur patron tue ceux qui partent. Lorsqu'ils reçoivent l'ordre de voler la triade, ils gardent l'argent et se cachent du patron, de la triade et de la police dans un couvent, habillés en nonnes.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

6,0/10

9,2 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Anecdotes
Michael Palin was offered the role of Charlie McManus but other work commitments rendered him unavailable.

Gaffes
When Brian and Charlie's car runs out of gas, Brian holds the steering wheel with both hands but what is heard is the engine stalling and the starter engine being cranked.

Citations
Charlie McManus: [teaching Brian how to cross himself] Spectacles, testicles, wallet, and watch.

Générique farfelu
Brian Hope as Flight Attendant - this is the character played by Eric Idle in the film.

Autres versions
The FOX television version has an alternate scene: When the Chinese man comes up to the car to ask why they are being followed, the newspaper Brian holds up to cover himself has a naked woman on the cover. In the television version, it is just a cover filled with news articles. This version is seen on FX and Fox's owned and operated networks.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Joe Versus the Volcano/The Handmaid's Tale/Bad Influence/Coupe De Ville/Love at Large (1990)

Bandes originales
The Race
Composed by Boris Blank and Dieter Meier
Performed by Yello
Courtesy of Phonogram Limited

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Commentaire en vedette

6/10

Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch.

If you have a comedy starring two of England's best, Eric Idle (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) and Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid in the harry Potter movies), then you just have to watch. This was a charming little comedy about two guys trying to go straight, but pulling one last job and ending up in a nunnery.

Of course, you have the Catholic jokes, and the guys in a girls dorm jokes, some Oscar-nominated talent, an MBE, and a nude girl in a shower, but that's all icing on the cake.

British comedy is just fin to watch. You won't end up on the floor laughing, but you will chuckle for the whole 89 minutes.

Jonathan Lynn (The Fighting Temptations, The Whole Nine Yards, My Cousin Vinney) wrote and directed this film, and you know he can make us laugh.