Quote Originally Posted by Fyraltari View Post
The Upside is an american remake* of the French highly successful movie Intouchables (techncally both adaptations of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo's autobiography Le Second Souffle (Second Breath)). both are comedies. Intoucheables is, as can be seen by both the viewer and critics consensus, funnier. Therefore American adaptations are not always funnier than European ones.

And there goes the frog.

*Because it's forbidden by law for Americans to watch a movie dubbed or subtitled apparently, no no they have to remake it and set it in the U.S.
I mean that's a pretty oblique metric. Rotten Tomatoes is a good aggregate but they're also barely seperated in the viewer form. And that's just one example. I'm sure both films are fine overall and it just becomes a matter of preference really.

Huh, never heard that one before.

(I mean a lot of British humour just isn't translatable to American's. There's nothing wrong with adaptation.)