OSS 117: Lost in Rio, the much-demanded sequel to the 2006 satirical spy spoof OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, premiered on DVD on Aug. 31, 2010, from Music Box Films, for a suggested retail price of $29.95. The original movie was a smash in its native France and a major cult hit in the U.S.
OSS 117: Lost in Rio once again stars French comedy sensation Jean Dujardin as the ever-absurd Agent OSS 117. In his latest outing, it’s 1967 and OSS 117’s mission finds him partnering with a sexy Israeli Mossad agent (Louise Monot) and traveling to swinging Rio de Janeiro to track down a roll of elusive microfilm and capture a high-ranking Nazi officer (Rüdiger Vogler) who has gone into exile in Brazil.
Written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius, the film is a jubilantly designed and stylized love letter to a long-gone movie genre: the 1960s spy thriller. The movie is embellished with such delicious 1960s-era flourishes as colorful jet-set locales, split-screen cinematography, a Bossa Nova-flavored retro score and state-of-the-decade fashions — not to mention a bunch of insanely overwrought gunfights and chase scenes and a healthy dollop of cleavage.
It’s a movie that happily presents to audiences a ridiculously politically incorrect “hero” who could give Maxwell Smart and Austin Powers a run for their secret decoder rings!
The DVD includes such bonus features as a featurettes, a blooper reel and deleted scenes.
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