Like most sequels, this isn't as good as Nest of Spies, but it's still pretty hilarious.Agent OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) is sent to Rio to deliver a blackmail payment. An escaped Nazi colonel (Rudiger Vogler) has a microfilm with a list of French collaborators and wants 50,000 francs to keep quiet about it. Once in Brazil, however, OSS 117 is picked up by Mossad agents who want to bring the colonel back for trial in Israel. They team 117 up with Dolores (Louise Monot), a highly capable field agent, and order the pair of them to track down the Nazi's hippie son (Alex Lutz) and get enough intel to break into his lair and bring him to justice.
The humor is broader here, more focusing on OSS 117's ignorance of culture, race, and creed. He's also stupider this time around, less capable of random flashes of brilliance. Still, it's worth it if only for his costume to the secret Nazi masquerade ball and the LSD-fueled orgy on the beach.
As a warning to all my good readers, I nearly killed myself trying to watch 66 movies in the last 40 days in my Oscar fervor. Things will probably be slowing down a bit around here but that doesn't mean quality will suffer, just quantity. I can't sustain that kind of output and keep my day job.
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