review of Le Petit Nicolas
There's a series of short stories in several books in France called Le Petit Nicolas about a schoolboy named Nicolas.  This movie uses three or four of them for its plot.  The stories are humorous and the movie does a good job of translating them to the screen.  I like the actors who play the parents of Nicolas, but I think they're both unknown in the U.S.  At the very least, this film gives a look into the life in a French grade school.  Nicolas is not nearly as bratty as Dennis the Menace, but he gets into humorous trouble all the same.
Rating: 4 stars