Omar Sy

With its brash humor and emotional generosity, The Intouchables has crowd-pleaser written all over it, but there’s no mistaking the queasy racial implications.

The culture has had just enough time to miss this franchise, and director and co-screenwriter Colin Trevorrow...has met the challenges with an appealing self-awareness.

Despite its extremely messy story, if looked at as a '50s B-movie matinee, it's not too bad.