Temperatures and laughs are up, tops are down and cultural sensitivity at an all-time low in this send-up of super-spy Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, aka OSS 117, the foreigner-fighting, Cold War hero of the popular de Gaulle-era novels by Jean Bruce. The bastard child of James Bond and Inspector Clouzot (played with mesmerizing scenery-chewing élan by French superstar Jean Dujardin) fumbles merrily through a meticulously realized Brazilian wonderland in hot pursuit of a Nazi blackmailer, and in collaboration with a rather-hot-herself Mossad agent (Louise Monot). To call this Frenchman a “fish out of water” would be to assume OSS 117 even realizes that the pool has a border beyond the island bar. In the follow-up to international hit OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, cowriter-director Michel Hazanavicius re-teams with screenwriter Jean-François Halin to deliver more international scandal, hijinks, outrageous chauvinism and global hilarity with this audience-pleaser that also ruthlessly skewers colonial arrogance.

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Written by Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-François Halin. With Jean Dujardin, Alex Lutz, Louis Monot, Rüdiger Vogler. (101 min, Music Box Films).