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Why do the French have such ‘crazy’ and ‘sexy’ movie titles?

WE’VE COLLECTED 21 OF THE MOST BIZARRE, SEXIEST, AND CRAZIEST EXAMPLES OF WHEN THE FRENCH HAVE RENAMED ENGLISH MOVIE TITLES… IN ENGLISH. BUT WHY DO THEY DO IT? The French have a strange habit of changing English-language movie names to different English-language titles. So, for example, The Hangover became Very Bad Trip for its France release: Strange, sure. But far from the strangest. So Euro Trip, for example, became Sex Trip. In fact, we noticed that the French translation team seems to have an unusual affinity for the word "sex". Wild Things, meanwhile, became Sex Crimes. Sometimes the translators didn't even really......

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