our Dino is "Gentle On My Mind" while "Lost In Rio"

Hey pallies, likes our Dino is everywhere!!!! Our great man's music is now bein' featured in a new freature film en francais.

Today's Dino-message is a flick review of the french spy spoof tagged "OSS 117: Lost in Rio." From the web page of the Hollywood Reporter, from the pen of Mr. Frank Scheck, comes this report on this new and very hip big screen caper.

Was thrilled to read that our Dino's huge hit, "Gentle On My Mind" is an important part of this film's soundtrack. Think of the millions of neaveau hipsters who may turn on to the Dino-sound just by viewin' this with it flick!!!!

Likes I did search youtube for a clip of "Lost In Rio" that includes our Dino's tune, but alas, did not have such a Dino-encounter. So, for your Dino-viewin' and Dino-listenin' pleasure have included a clip of our beloved Dino havin' a swingin' time singin' "Gentle" on this TV show.

Just gives me such a thrill pallies to know that flick after flick are givin' our Dino the nod when it comes to their soundtrack music. Thanks to Mr. Frank Scheck and the Hollywood Reporter to puttin' us on to this excitin' Dino-news. To view the review in it's original format, as aways, just clicks on the tagg of this here Dino-gram. Dino-delightedly, DMP




Film Reviews

OSS 117: Lost in Rio -- Film Review

By Frank Scheck, May 10, 2010 10:13 ET



"OSS 117: Lost in Rio"Bottom Line: This French spy spoof is no "Austin Powers."
NEW YORK -- We've had Derek Flint, Maxwell Smart, Austin Powers and innumerable other lampoons of spies and secret agents, so why shouldn't the French get into the act with "OSS 117: Lost in Rio"? This sequel to 2006's "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" spoofs one of their iconic characters, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, the hero of a series of novels and films dating to the late 1940s.

Unfortunately, the genre has gotten a bit stale by now, and this mostly unfunny effort -- though it might have made them laugh silly in its home country -- is unlikely to appeal to art house audiences on this side of the Atlantic.

Reprising his role as the title character is Jean Dujardin, whose deadpan comedic style is the best element of the otherwise over-the-top proceedings.

Set 12 years after the previous installment, this one has 117 jetting down to Rio to retrieve a microfilm listing the names of World War II French collaborators (he's astonished to discover there were any). Joining forces with a beautiful -- naturally -- female Mossad agent (Louise Monot), he finds himself facing off against various bad guys, including Chinese gangsters and an aged Nazi.

Director Michel Hazanavicius perfectly apes the stylistic mannerisms of '60s-era spy thrillers, from cheesy soundtrack selections -- in this case, Dean Martin's cover of "Gentle on My Mind" -- to split-screen visuals to groovy costumes and hairstyles. He also throws in numerous gratuitous Hitchcock references, with copious riffs on "Vertigo" and "North by Northwest."

Most of the film's tired humor stems from the clueless 117's casual racism and misogyny, expressed largely through an endless series of anti-Semitic comments that prove more tasteless than funny.

For every comic sequence that works -- an agonizingly slow foot chase in a hospital between 117 and the Nazi while both are hooked up to IVs -- there are more that fall flat: 117 tries in vain to cook a crocodile for dinner. One would guess the gags involving an American CIA agent whose language is peppered with endless vulgarisms played a lot better in France than they do here.

Smirking as expertly as Sean Connery, Dujardin admittedly is a hoot as the sexist secret agent. It's too bad his terrifically self-deprecating comic performance is undercut by the lameness of everything that surrounds him.

Opened May 7 (Music Box Films)
Production: Mandarin Films, Gaumont, M6 Films, Canal Plus, CineCinema
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Louis Monot, Rudiger Vogler, Alex Luntz
Director: Michael Hazanavicius
Screenwriters: Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Francois Halin
Producer: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
Director of photography: Guillaume Schiffman
Editor: Reynald Bertrand
Costume designer: Charlotte David
Music: Ludovic Bource