\"The people [in US and UK distribution companies] we spoke to found it politically incorrect,\" Sabine Chemaly of TFI International told Le Point magazine. <\/p>\n
The film got mostly rave reviews in France, with one critic praising it as a \"sort of hymn to the melting pot of France, an efficient comedy that uses self-derision to promote multicultural tolerance\". <\/p>\n
The film's message appears to be that even if the French are sometimes a little racist, common sense will prevail and everyone can in the end get along. <\/p>\n
The director, Philippe de Chauveron, said his film was about \"deflating\" the prejudices peddled by the anti-immigrant Front National party, whose support has been growing rapidly in France in recent years. <\/p>\n
But the few reviews that have appeared in the English-language film trade press were negative. <\/p>\n
\"The majority of the jokes are extremely heavy-handed -- the Jew calls the Arab \"Arafat\" and then is karate-chopped by the Asian,\" said the Hollywood Reporter, while Variety magazine noted that the film had been criticised for \"perpetuating racist stereotypes and feeding into France's ambient xenophobia\". <\/p>\n
The 2011 French film, The Intouchables, touched upon similar topics as Serial (Bad) Weddings and grossed nearly $400 million worldwide, but it's hard to see Weddings honeymooning far outside the usual Francophone hotspots,\" added the Hollywood Reporter. <\/p>\n
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