OSS 117: Lost in Rio

OSS 117: Lost in Rio (French: OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus) is the second of two French films detailing the comic misadventures of Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka OSS 117, a bumbling French secret agent in the 1960s. In this installment 117 is sent to Rio to obtain a list of French WWII collaborators from an old Nazi. While there, he meets up with a foxy Israeli spy named Dolores who is determined to capture the Nazi. Both this film and its predecessor, OSS 117 Cairo Nest of Spies star Jean Dujardin as OSS 117, a character who might be best described as Sean Connery's James Bond, if Bond were both amazingly stupid and kind of racist. Based on a not-at-all satirical series of French spy novels.

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Tropes used in OSS 117: Lost in Rio include:

• Affectionate Parody: Of James Bond and other sexy spy thrillers of The Sixties.
• All Asians Are Alike: 117 can't remember which Asian country allied with the Nazis. He also calls all Asian people "Chinamen".
• All Germans Are Nazis: 117 has heard about the theory that all the German are not all Nazis. He doesn't think much of it. Ironically, he chastises Dolores for generalizing that all Nazis were SS.
• Awesome McCoolname: Bill Trumendous, the CIA agent.
• The Big Damn Kiss: Atop Christ the Redeemer. With fireworks.
• Bilingual Bonus: The CIA agent swears at and insults 117 repeatedly in English, then laughs in his face. Also, his name is Bill Trumendous.
• Call Back: The way 117 chases the villain down the walkways around the waterfall is the same way he chases the villain down the streets of Cairo in the previous film. He pauses at every intersection to look around before dashing off in one direction, even though this time he should be able to see the exact path to the villain no matter where he is.
• Comically Missing the Point: 117 is sometimes utterly clueless and frequently misses the point.
• Character Title
• Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: The CIA tells 117, "We're only allies when you need us to liberate you."
• Chekhov's Gun: 117's fear of heights. Of course, he gets over it when needed.
• Crosses the Line Twice: 117's anti-semitic comments are one thing, having a Nazi war criminal rage against the unfairness of hunting them down by quoting Shylock's famous speech...

"I am a Nazi. Hath not a Nazi eyes? Hath not a Nazi hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick us, do we not bleed?

• Distracted by the Sexy: 117 forgets about the case when he sees topless girls on the beach.
• Foot Popping: The last kiss between Dolores and 117.
• Foreign Language Tirade: The CIA agent speaks French fine but enjoys insulting 117 in English.
• Greedy Jew: Of course, as he explains to them, it's not because of this trope that he doesn't trust them with money.
• Hollywood Darkness: In keeping with the parody, all night scenes are shot day-for-night on particularly sunny days so that it's quite obvious.
• Hypocritical Humor: 117 thinks that all Germans are Nazis, but chastises Dolores for implying that all Nazis were SS. "Don't generalize!"
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Parodied. 117 gets into several gunfights at close range and makes no attempt to dodge. In another scene while under a hailstorm of gunfire, he goes back to retrieve a briefcase full of money, then goes back to get his jacket and sunglasses, then pauses a third time as if wondering if he's forgotten anything else.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: 117 makes a few. In the end, he exchanges puns on the name Lee until his superior tells him that it isn't funny anymore.
• Insistent Terminology: 117 corrects the Mossad agents several times that his codenumber is "One-Seventeen," not "Double-One Seven."
• Intoxication Ensues: 117 does not know what LSD is.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: 117 is told that he's misogynistic and borderline racist, but objects to being called a a tacky dresser.
• Low Speed Chase: Parodied in the hospital, where 117 pursues the Nazi bad guy very slowly, as both are injured. With the appropriate chase music.
• Malevolent Masked Men
• Monumental Battle: Atop the "Christ the Redeemer" statue.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Lampshaded. 117 is relaxing at a party with a bunch of comely Chinese ladies when a squad of Chinese assassins burst into the room to kill him. 117 promptly engages in a gunfight that winds up with him and his girlfriend unscathed, but with all of the assassins AND all of the other girls dead. As he stands among a pile of corpses 117 says, "That almost got bad."
• Padding: A largely pointless epilogue after The Big Damn Kiss.
• A Party - Also Known as an Orgy
• Politically-Correct History: Completely averted.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Dolores gives a long list of reasons why she's not attracted to 117. He only objects to the "tacky dresser" part.
• Running Gag: The Chinese assassins.
• Sexy Discretion Shot: Lampshaded. 117 and his girlfriend start getting busy, so the camera pans away to two birds on the windowsill -- and the birds start having sex.
• Split Screen and Split-Screen Phone Call
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: 117 makes it quite clear that the reason he won't leave the money with the Mossad is not because of all those things they say about Jews and money.
• Take a Third Option:

Dolores: They want to make love, not war.
OSS 117: But both are possible.

• Those Wacky Nazis: Again!
• Vertigo Effect: The whole scene is pretty blatantly stolen from Vertigo, in fact.