History Film / TheThreeMagi

* NiceGuy: The African villagers, the Mexican townspeople and the Tibetan monks who are the first modern age people Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior meet don't think they are loonies but instead welcome them and even help them to find the nearest airport so they can go on their quest.

* NiceGuy: The African villagers, the Mexican townspeople and the Tibetan monks who help, respectively, Caspar, Balthazar and Melchior don't think they are loonies but instead welcome them and help them to find the nearest airport so they can go on their quest.

* MissionFromGod: The Magis are certain that they have to find the Messiah they've been guided to (Jesus).

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* CunningLinguist: The three Magi come from areas that are generally far from the ones they land in in 2001, and yet they have no problem talking with the locals. Particularly in languages that started shaping up way after the time they come from, ''especially'' French when they get to Paris. Melchior also speaks UsefulNotes/{{Latin|Language}}, which is less improbable.

* ActorAllusion: Melchior (Bernard Campan) landing in Tibet. In one of Les Inconnus' early 1990s comedy sketches, Campan played the role of a sect's guru who pretended to be from Tibet (with a heavy accent from the French city of Marseille).

The [[TheThreeWiseMen Wise Men/Magi]] mentioned in the [[Literature/TheFourGospels Gospels]] (though numbered as three and named by later sources), Balthazar (Bourdon), Melchior (Campan) and Caspar (Légitimus) were on their way to see and pay homage to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} upon his birth, when they found themselves involuntarily travelling in time from the First Century AD to 2001. They land in three separate points of the world, and end up reunited in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}. Comedic mayhem ensues.

The [[TheThreeWiseMen Wise Men/Magi]] mentioned in Literature/TheFourGospels (though numbered as three and named by later sources), Balthazar (Bourdon), Melchior (Campan) and Caspar (Légitimus) were on their way to see and pay homage to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} upon his birth, when they found themselves involuntarily travelling in time from the First Century AD to 2001. They land in three separate points of the world, and end up reunited in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}. Comedic mayhem ensues.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: The "Instantaneous" kind. The three Magi are walking together in the desert in the First Century AC at the beginning. Then the star described in the Gospels that announced the birth of Jesus starts shining unusually bright, and they find themselves transported to 2001. They appear in bodies of water in three separate locations in the modern world -- Caspar in a pond of water in an UsefulNotes/{{Africa}}n country, Balthazar in the sea on a coast of UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}, and Melchior in a fountain in UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}. The gifts all three men were holding for Jesus magically disappear from their hands as they arrive in modern-day, also.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: The three Magi are walking together in the desert in the First Century AC at the beginning. Then the star described in the Gospels that announced the birth of Jesus starts shining unusually bright, and they find themselves transported to 2001. They appear in bodies of water in three separate locations in the modern world -- Caspar in a pond of water in an UsefulNotes/{{Africa}}n country, Balthazar in the sea on a coast of UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}, and Melchior in a fountain in UsefulNotes/{{Tibet}}. The gifts all three men were holding for Jesus magically disappear from their hands as they arrive in modern-day, also.

''The Three Magi'' (''Les Rois mages'' in French) is a 2001 French TimeTravel comedy film directed, written by and starring the comedy trio Creator/LesInconnus -- Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus. It is the trio's second film together after 1995's ''Film/TheThreeBrothers''.

* CunningLinguist: The three Magi come from areas that are generally far from the ones they land in in 2001, and yet they have no problem talking with the locals. Particularly in languages that started shaping up way after the time they come from, ''especially'' French when they get to Paris.

* CunningLinguist: The three Magi come from areas that are generally far from the ones they land in in 2001, and yet they have no problem talking with the locals. Particularly in languages that started shaping way after the time they come from, ''especially'' French when they get to Paris.

* CunningLinguist: The three Magi come from areas that are generally far from the ones they land in in 2001, and yet they have no problem talking with the locals. Particularly in languages that started shaping way after the time they come from.

* CunningLinguist: The three Magi come from countries that are generally far from the ones they land in in 2001, and yet they have no problem talking with the locals. Particularly in languages that started shaping way after the time they come from.

''The Three Magi'' (''Les Rois mages'' in French) is a 2001 French TimeTravel comedy film directed, written by and starring the comedy trio Creator/LesInconnus -- Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus. It is their second film together after ''Film/TheThreeBrothers''.

''The Three Magi'' (''Les Rois mages'' in French) is a 2001 French TimeTravel comedy film directed, written by and starring the comedy trio Creator/LesInconnus -- Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus.

''The Three Magis'' (''Les Rois mages'' in French) is a 2001 French TimeTravel comedy film directed, written by and starring the comedy trio Creator/LesInconnus -- Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The three Magis have various surprised/amazed or bewildered reactions to modern things they come across, starting with their first travel by plane.

* ThePollyanna: The three magis are always cheerful and certain that the Providence will guide them where they have to go, despite being lost in time.
* TheThreeWiseMen: The protagonists, who involuntarily travel in time.

The [[TheThreeWiseMen Wise Men/Magi]] mentioned in Literature/TheFourGospels (though numbered as three and named by later sources), Balthazar (Bourdon), Melchior (Campan) and Caspar (Légitimus) were on their way to see and pay homage to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} upon his birth, when they found themselves involuntarily travelling in time from the First Century BC to 2001. They land in three separate points of the world, and end up reunited in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}. Comedic mayhem ensues.

The [[TheThreeWiseMen Wise Men/Magis]] mentioned in Literature/TheFourGospels (though numbered and named by later sources), Balthazar (Bourdon), Melchior (Campan) and Caspar (Légitimus) were on their way to see and pay homage to UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} upon his birth, when they found themselves involuntarily travelling in time from the First Century BC to 2001. They land in three separate points of the world, and end up reunited in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}. Comedic mayhem ensues.