French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever

French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever (Les Bronzés 3 : Amis pour la vie, 2006) is a French comedy by Patrice Leconte you can watch online on iFILM. Nearly three decades after their Club Med days, the old gang of suntanned holidaymakers reunites at a plush Italian resort.

The years have piled up, but nobody has actually grown. Jérôme has lost his medical practice, Jean-Claude still panics over trifles, Bernard is stuck with his hard-drinking wife Nathalie, and Christiane is nursing a grudge she fully intends to settle. Everyone arrives hauling decades of petty rivalries, so a peaceful vacation is off the table from day one. The tagline says it plainly: the same crowd, only worse.

This is the closing chapter of a trilogy the French have been quoting since the late 1970s, and the original ensemble shows up intact — Thierry Lhermitte, Gérard Jugnot, Christian Clavier, Josiane Balasko and Michel Blanc playing characters who aged exactly as much as the audience did. Newcomers may feel locked out; half the jokes run on memories from the first two films. Stream French Fried Vacations 3 (2006) online on iFILM.