Alibi.com 2
Detailed parental analysis
Alibi.com 2 is a popular comedy with a festive and uninhibited atmosphere, driven at a frantic pace through mix-ups, stunts and slapstick humour. The plot extends the adventures of an agency specializing in fabricating false alibis, caught up in new outlandish situations that put couples and families to the test. The film targets primarily an adult audience and older teenagers, even though its official classification does not impose formal restrictions.
Sex and Nudity
This is the most salient register of the film for a parent. It features a fight scene involving two completely naked men, with full male nudity visible, as well as recurring references to a mother described as an actress in erotic films. Sexual allusions and double entendre situations run through the film from beginning to end, rather than being confined to a few isolated passages. The tone is bawdy rather than explicitly pornographic, but the omnipresence of these elements makes it a film clearly unsuited to young children and questionable for pre-adolescents.
Discrimination
The film's humour relies on a slapstick register that regularly tips into vaguely homophobic jokes and unsubtle gender stereotypes. These elements are not merely incidental: they constitute a recurring comedic device. The film neither questions nor subverts these stereotypes; it uses them as raw material without critical distance. This is a concrete point to address with a teenager to distinguish what makes people laugh from what it reveals.
Underlying Values
The narrative centres on an agency whose business is organised deception, presented as a service rendered to couples and families. Deception and manipulation are normalised narrative tools, treated in comedy register without ever truly being called into question. Overall it implicitly valorises a form of ingenuity in getting by, but at the cost of a fairly blurred morality regarding loyalty and trust in relationships.
Parental and Family Portrayals
The erotic maternal figure and disordered family dynamics are central comic drivers of the film. Parent-child relationships and couples are systematically treated in terms of mix-up and concealment, which gives a fairly dysfunctional, albeit deliberately caricatured, image of family bonds.
Violence
Violence is present in the form of stunts and comic scuffles, without gore or genuine brutality. It remains within the codes of mainstream action-comedy, light and clearly undramatised. This is not a major point of concern for most children from a reasonable age onwards.
Strengths
The film functions as a well-oiled comic mechanism: the pace is brisk, gags follow one another without dead time, and the effectiveness of physical burlesque is genuine. For an adult audience approaching it without particular artistic expectations, it is honest entertainment in its genre. It adds little in terms of narrative or emotional value, but it does not claim to. Its main value is that of collective release, of easy laughter shared in a group.
Age recommendation and discussion points
The film is not recommended before the age of 14, given the full frontal nudity, repeated sexual allusions and stereotyped humour with homophobic overtones. From age 14 onwards, viewing is possible with a minimum of parental accompaniment. Two useful angles for discussion after the film: why certain jokes about homosexuality or the body make people laugh, and what that says about how we mock, and how the film presents lying as something funny and practical, when it is a device that undermines trust in real relationships.
Synopsis
After closing his agency Alibi.com and promising Flo that he would never lie to her again, Greg's new life became quiet, too quiet... Not for long! When he decides to propose to Flo, Greg is up against the wall and has to introduce his family. But with his crooked father and his ex-charm actress mother, this could ruin his future union. He has no choice but to reopen his agency with his former accomplices for an ultimate Alibi and to find more presentable fake parents.
About this title
- Format
- Feature film
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Countries
- France
- Original language
- FR
- Directed by
- Philippe Lacheau
- Main cast
- Philippe Lacheau, Tarek Boudali, Élodie Fontan, Julien Arruti, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon, Arielle Dombasle, Gérard Jugnot, Alexandra Lamy, Gad Elmaleh
- Studios
- TF1 Films Production, StudioCanal, Axel Films, TF1 Studio, BAF Prod
Content barometer
- Violence2/5Moderate
- Fear1/5Mild
- Sexuality4/5Explicit
- Language3/5Notable
- Narrative complexity1/5Accessible
- Adult themes1/5Mild
Watch-outs
- Strong language
- Sexuality
- Gender stereotypes
- Sexual orientation stereotypes
Values conveyed
- Loyalty
- love
- friendship
- blended family
- honesty