Jean Dujardin, alias Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, is back in service in OSS 117: Red alert in black Africa, which arrives in theaters on Wednesday.

This new film, which also starred Pierre Niney, received a large budget of 20 million euros.

For the occasion, Europe 1 looks back on the incredible success of the first two opus of the saga.

Our parody James Bond is back in theaters.

Fifteen years after

Cairo, nest of spies

, OSS 117 is making a comeback with a third installment:

Red Alert in Black Africa

.

This new opus is released in theaters on Wednesday, with Jean Dujardin headlining but also Pierre Niney.

Comedian and director Nicolas Bedos succeeds Michel Hazanavicius as director.

OSS 117 is the story of a huge success: 2.3 million admissions for

Cairo, nest of spies

in 2006 and 2.52 million for

Rio no longer responds

, released three years later.

Presented at Cannes, the third film could further strengthen the success of this cult spy. 

Heavy humor, but effective

In this new adventure, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath is setting out again on a mission, in Africa this time, always so reckless and blundering.

For Jules, a fan we interviewed, the recipe for this trilogy is simple: "It's humor a bit offbeat, a bit heavy, which suits me well. It's the kind of humor I like", he smiles.

Without its headliner, OSS 117 might not appeal to this retired Parisian, also interviewed by Europe 1: "Dujardin, I love it! I'm going to watch it just for him," she says. 

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"We haven't had this since

Les Tontons flingueurs

" 

This is also the key to this success: Jean Dujardin who swaps his blonde hair of a Nice surfer for this role of macho charmer a bit annoying.

"They knew how to give this detective genre a very funny side. We had not had that since

Les Tontons flingueurs

and the films of Georges Lautner", comments the cinema journalist Alain Grasset.

And then the last secret of OSS 117 is perhaps also its budget: more than 20 million euros for this last film, that is to say much more than the average of French comedies.