I personally do not believe that Les Boys was fully able to translate across linguistic boundaries using bodily communication, because much of the humour was based in the verbal communication and the jokes may not have translated well to other cultures. There were a few scenes where the humour was based in the body, such as when Karine was distracting the other team’s goalie by acting in a promiscuous manner, but most humorous scenes were based in language. Even the scene where we find out that the lawyer, Jean-Charles, is a closeted homosexual, some of the humour may be lost if we did not have the subtitles and just had the bodily communication between Jean-Charles and Pierrot. The biggest example of a scene based in the verbal is the ending
