Alright, the end was pretty good, but the rest wasn't funny beyond a few lost-in-translation jokes and the quality was low, along with the acting.

It wasn't all that funny, and I wasn't impressed with the acting or the story. It didn't really have a point, and the end was just stupid. I wouldn't recommend this.

It was alright, but too slow and the film quality wasn't high enough.

An ok movie that is entertaining and funny at times and then just boring at other.

First off, MiniDV + natural light = WORST IDEA EVER. That said, "The Chateau" is damn funny. The laid-back, improv style coupled with culture-clase humor might fly over some people's heads, but the willing cast brings the goods. Romany Malco is absol... (read more) First off, MiniDV + natural light = WORST IDEA EVER. That said, "The Chateau" is damn funny. The laid-back, improv style coupled with culture-clase humor might fly over some people's heads, but the willing cast brings the goods. Romany Malco is absolutely hilarious - restrained and cool one second, frantic the next - and Sylvie Testud is absolutely adorable as always.

A culture-clash comedy that, in addition to being very funny, captures some of the discomfort and embarrassment of being a bumbling American in Europe.

The Chateau belongs to Rudd, whose portrait of a therapy-dependent flakeball spouting French malapropisms ... is a nonstop hoot.