the audience applauded

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

A Surprisingly Unforgettable Movie!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

This is not a movie. This is a very expensive pay off to the Delpy clan. The end product is a feel good publicity for the French. Yet the joke is on the French public, the actual nice of this movie. Everything is carefully white washed. From racist remarks. To the smallest details. Like the heroic father who refused to kill the civilians who rose for independence and it is said he had to wash military toilets. All dirty in the distasteful ensuing slideshow. All toilet bowls with toilet seats. Although in 2017 there are many public places that DO NOT have a toilet bowl, just a hole in the floor. And the public places that do have a toilet bowl either do not have a seat, or the seat is somewhere fallen to the side.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

I liked the first installment "2 days In Paris", so I decided to watch this too. Nice, lighthearted fun, not to be taken too seriously.Acting is quite good, for this sort of movie. I was a bit cautious about Chris Rock at first, but I think he was really good in this. Gave me a whole new perspective for the man as he is the "serious" one in this movie. Most of the fun comes from conservative Chris Rock clashing with the french family. There's quite a few good laughs.As of writing this, I had to stop and think what was this movie about again, even tho I just saw it. I can't really say actually, there's no major plot here. Having said that, there seems to be a need to explain a lot of things in the script. Julie Delpy acts the certain way in this movie and it's in my opinion quite needlessly explained in the end. The finale feels a bit cheap to me, a bit too obvious try to tie things together.The look of the movie is also a bit cheapish. I don't know if it's the camera used, the set deco or what, but there's a TV show feel compared to "2 days in Paris", which felt more like Cinema with a capital C. This could've been an extended episode of a TV sitcom (think of Friends..).Not a bad way of spending an evening, but nothing remarkable either. The writing and dialog is quite fun. It's in a away reminiscent of Woody Allens 00's movies when he wasn't on top of his game and did stuff like "Anything Else" etc. You can see that there's talent involved, but it just doesn't quite deliver nor make a memorable movie.

Cross culture comedy about French people experiencing New York. Chris Rock plays the love interest to Julie Delpy whose family come to visit. Middle brow comedy and philosophical musing ensues.Julie Delpy does well to direct a quirky comedy with Chris Rock in the lead. The racial stereo typing, which could have so easily been the focus, are kept to a minimum. What remains in focus is the belief that the movie stands for something boldly satirical with regards to art and modern perceptions of family, this in itself is commendable and makes the movie a curio for the art house crowd.The main weakness is that the premise is nothing new and the middle class bubble in which the couple are so neatly wrapped up in (she's an artist and he's a radio DJ) precludes the characters from ever gaining any sympathy from the audience. Thus the soul searching and Gaelic bite that the Delpy character regularly exhibits really don't hit home.Chris Rock does very well in a smart leading man role, and in many ways keeps the movie chugging along (there is a potential hilarious comedy about Chris Rock's character that went unexplored). The French cast are genuinely believable and do not over play the fish out of water card. The script has it's moments and keeps a well rounded level of interest. Hopefully the upshot of this movie is that Chris Rock will get more straight roles in the future and have a better chance to flex his comedic muscles in more relevant comedies beyond the likes of Grown Ups 2.

"2 Days in New York" is a slight, farcical comedy from Julia Deply. It's a sequel to "2 Days in Paris", also written and directed by Deply. Both films are unofficial sequels to Richard Linklater's "Before Sunset" and "Before Sunrise"."New York" stars Deply as Marion, a French artist now living in New York. Always teetering on the verge of meltdown, she's in a relationship with Mingus (Chris Rock), a bespectacled guy who does his best to keep her sane. Visiting the couple are Marion's oddball, French family members. Much bickering, buffoonery and culture-clash giggles ensue. It's sitcom level humour, elevated somewhat by Deply's willingness to be raw and atypically crass (both films deglamourise relationships). Chris Rock is wasted in a "straight man" role.7.9/10 – Worth one viewing. Revisit Linklater instead.