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80This delightfully spirited film is perfectly cast, and it's hard to imagine how Daniel Auteuil, José Garcia and Sandrine Kiberlain could possibly improve upon their irresistible, multifaceted portrayals.
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75Maybe the movie does so much dawdling and meandering so we'll have more time to bask in their presence; in any case, the otherwise pleasant picture uses up its ideas long before it uses up its running time.
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75The humor is all over the place, veering from light to dark and from broad to subtle -- as if an "I Love Lucy" episode had been retooled by Woody Allen.
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75Suicidal depression has rarely looked so amusing.
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70There isn't much to the movie, and you can see where it's going from kilometers away. But [Daniel] Auteuil gives the silliness a surprising heft.
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70Unusually for a soap-bubble film, Après Vous runs almost two hours and very nearly sustains its length. Five minutes of condensation toward the end would have benefited it. But Salvadori floats everything, hammers nothing, and gets maximum buoyancy out of Camille Bazbaz's jaunty music.
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A sweet, if dramatically overlong trifle.
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Après Vous arranges for a normal guy to get stuck with a blithering wreck. But whenever things threaten to get really silly, it pulls back.
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60Après Vous offers nice sound design and an unfussy presentation of middle-class Paris. It comes and goes with no unpleasant aftertaste.
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60Elegantly written, well-thesped comedy is too hermetic and bittersweet to be laugh-out-loud funny, but sustains a fairly successful ratio of uncomfortable situations to amusing solutions.
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50The story itself is silly and exaggerated.
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50Intended as a farce, but lacks farcical insanity and settles for being a sitcom, not a very good one.
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50Salvadori's choppy film never establishes a comic rhythm.
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50The movie is largely set in a busy Paris restaurant, and, not surprisingly, the food looks terrific. You may come out hungry for poached sea bass and a little starved for drama.
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50Like most contemporary romantic comedies, the film's plot works only if you accept that everyone behaves like a complete and utter idiot at all times.
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50Intends to be a farce, not a drama. The film never quite achieves either definition.
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50You should come out of a film like Apres Vous with your heart as light and fluffy as a souffle. But this farce, credited to four chefs, er, writers, is as heavy and leaden as meatloaf.
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50The best that can be said for this excitable, harmless romantic comedy is that it is smoothly directed by Pierre Salvadori.
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50It's sweet, but way too silly.
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Praised be the gods that this rom-com is French. If not, we'd be haunted by visions of a Focker-ish Dustin Hoffman rescuing a suicidal Tony Shalhoub then orchestrating the TV germophobe's reunification with ex Lisa Kudrow. Vive la France!
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50Had it had the concision and symmetry of a classic French farce, Après Vous could have been an irresistible laugh machine.
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50Reasonably entertaining but predictable.
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42The jokes run dry, the situation is redundant, the cast becomes tiresome and the running time is interminable.
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30Proves an absolute chore to sit through.
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