Claude (Christian Clavier, making as many faces as possible) and Marie (Chantal Lauby, very funny), a very traditional and catholic French couple, see how their three oldest daughters marry in succession a Muslim, a Jew and a Chinese, with only their youngest still unmarried. In the first two minutes of the movie you see how the middle-aged couple's faces become more and more irritated, as the three weddings happen. We soon discover that Claude and Marie have some very traditional prejudices, and have problems with accepting that their daughters have married men from different cultures and religions.
And they still don't know that the youngest's boyfriend is a black man.
"Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?" (God, what have we done?) is a very traditional comedy, with all the typical strong points and shortcomings of a clash-culture comedy. The old couple are not very happy that they don't have a Catholic French white son-in-law, but the three they already have also don't like each other very much. Many of the jokes of the movie come from people knowing to accept each other and about how we don't really know much apart from our own culture.
It is all very middle-high class people too, as no one here is poor (the Verneuil have a huge house, you won't see an ugly face on show, etc etc), but that's just a minor quibble.
But in the end, it all is quite innocent (except a couple of a little bit politically incorrect jokes) and the movie just tries to show that everyone may be a little bit racist (or ethnocentric) and that we can try and should understand each other. And it's quite funny.
And they still don't know that the youngest's boyfriend is a black man.
"Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?" (God, what have we done?) is a very traditional comedy, with all the typical strong points and shortcomings of a clash-culture comedy. The old couple are not very happy that they don't have a Catholic French white son-in-law, but the three they already have also don't like each other very much. Many of the jokes of the movie come from people knowing to accept each other and about how we don't really know much apart from our own culture.
It is all very middle-high class people too, as no one here is poor (the Verneuil have a huge house, you won't see an ugly face on show, etc etc), but that's just a minor quibble.
But in the end, it all is quite innocent (except a couple of a little bit politically incorrect jokes) and the movie just tries to show that everyone may be a little bit racist (or ethnocentric) and that we can try and should understand each other. And it's quite funny.