Franck Dubosc... I think I need to remember to avoid this actor in the future, because even though I enjoyed bits of this film, it's not much better than Cat & Dog. Franck Dubosc plays a Dad named Jerome who tries to get his family together to play a game called Wolf pack, but they don't want to. As Jerome packs up the game he accidentally teleports the family into the game world where it's the middle ages and a vicious king rules the day and werewolves rule the night. And the only way to get back is to kill all the werewolves.
Like Cat & Dog I don't think this film knew whether it wanted to be a kids or an adult film. For example it's not quite violent enough to be an adult film, because you only really get to see one werewolf fight at the end. But when you do see the werewolves it makes the film a bit too scary to be a kids film.
There is some other action that isn't based around the werewolves for example towards the end of the film Franck's wife, Marie (Suzanne Clement) is arrested and thrown in prison because the other people from the middle ages think she is a witch. This part was quite exciting and does lead to a joke that at first made me laugh but by the end of the film it seemed a bit repetitive and silly. I also think this joke would have seemed more gross than funny to young kids.
The other jokes in this film are based around the fact that Jerome and Marie both had a child from their first marriage and then they also had a child together which seems completely out of the ordinary in the middle ages. And there are also some jokes based around how women and mixed race people were treated in the middle ages. These jokes made me a chuckle a little, but again a young viewer would probably have completely misunderstood them.
So are Franck and his family able to save Marie and teleport themselves back to their own world? Well if you still want to find that out after reading my hit and miss review and you have teenage kids, I encourage you to give this film a try and who knows you might enjoy it a bit more than I did.
