veber be not renown for his outstanding directorial skill . in fact nobody care as long a they get the laugh and quite a few here to be honest and scatter in the whole process and thanks to depardieu half wit characterization and the dialogue veber put in his mouth . but this be not enough to make a great comedy since there no movie outside of the usual veber premise represent a tough guy be doom to team up with a very naive character . in lemmerdeur and la chèvre or les compères there be a real story go on over the fire vs. water proceeding . le diner de con and although it be a play and manage to create a real suspense about the next catastrophe pinon would cause . in tais toi the backstory about the vengeance be both redundant and too weak to arouse our interest . plus the heavy be lame both on screen and in the script . now what wrong . veber wrap this up create no action and no rhythm . instead he use systematically and overuse ellipsis ( maybe he meet william goldman in hollywood ) and the amusic really stress that lack of nerve and a backbone in the story . so you will have to be content with depardieu performance .