French accent ?? Ouch !! + Stereotypes galore !

As a native Frenchman, I really don't understand why the production chose an American to play Kevin Kline's part. I mean, two words from him and you know he's not French. Everything he says and does is an exaggerated caricature, some of which is not even in good French. Clearly, whoever wrote his lines is not a native.
Same goes for Juliette and their scene at the restaurant. She's not French either and her lines are delivered like she's reciting a poem and doesn't have a clue what she's talking about.
It is so grotesque, it completely ruins the movie. That and countless other completely stupid statements such as "be nice to a French waiter and they'll treat you like dirt, be mean to them and they'll love it". I suggest you try and see how you get treated ! :D
It is sad to see that this seems to be the image of France that this production wants to give its American viewers. Stereotypical, polished, unrealistic (down to the people on the street and on the beach - or the guy walking around Valbonne with his goat... ridiculous...) and basically insulting to the foreigner's intelligence, filling him with disinformation. I could easily spot something rearranged, added, removed, untrue, not colloquial, etc. for each minute of this movie.

I can't wait for a French movie with French actors, shot in the U.S., playing cowboys in a ranch (that would probably be very credible, right ?), eating hamburgers with ketchup, and unable to point their own country on a world map, just so all the French could watch it and say: "Look how uneducated these Americans are ! They do have beautiful landscapes though..."

Enough stereotypes !!

Movies like "French Kiss" are more harmful than they seem.