Gallic cousin to "Dumb and Dumber," Francis Veber's pic is an amiable mismatched buddy comedy whose yucks derive more from pairing a stoic Jean Reno and a dorky Gerard Depardieu than from pic's thin ...

A tough criminal is arrested after hiding the loot from a Paris armored truck robbery. A talkative dimwit befriends him in prison and escapes with him - chased by police and his evil crime boss.