AJ Goes to France is the kind of comedy that Hollyood seems to be incapable of making anymore. It is a film whose plot does not make sense and does not matter. Thank God. For too long we have suffered through the likes of Scary Movie and Date Movie and Not Another Teen Movie and, and, and... none of which have a single joke that isn't communicated to the audience 5 minutes before it happens (hence negating the point of the gag) or isn't a variation of a famous scene from a movie ("Show me the money!", etc.) with scatological/ sexual innuendo/drug references being added to show how creative the screenwriters are.
"France" moves along a rapid fire pace, never outlasting its welcome, utilizing a machine- gun fire dispersing of its many clever sight gags, run-ons, and one liners which aren't so much one-liners as they are clever versions of tired, plot-oriented dialogue from other movies. Everything but the kitchen sink is included, but in such a way that it is intentional and not a desperate try to get a laugh out of everybody. The filmmakers know what they are doing, they know when they want everyone to be confused, to be laughing, to be excited at there film. Not afraid of being offense or feature cruelty into a passive manner ("I get to see hero today, Kapitan Kangroo!" "You mean the one with the debilitating addiction to black-tar heroin?"), "France" is above using cheap scatological humor or base sexual innuendo as easy substitutes for jokes, characters and a storyline that was well thought out (which is impressive in itself considering what kind of film this is).
All in all, a strong recommendation for "AJ Goes to France", especially for those who, like me, remember the glory days of the 80's when thing like gags, one-liners and intelligent parodies of the ridiculous in other popular films (see Heidi Gustad's pitch-perfect send-up of the quirky caricatures of the female leads in Garden State and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) didn't have to be dumbed down in order to make light of films that took themselves too seriously. -10/10