When medieval nobleman Godefroy (Jean Reno) uses a magic potion con- cocted to help win back his beloved Frenegonde (Valerie Lemercier), he and his bumbling manservant Jacquouille (Christian Clavier), are catapulted eight centuries into the future, where a rude shock awaits them -- Godefroy's family has been dispossessed, Jacquouille's des- cendant is running his castle as a hotel and Beatrice (who closely resembles Frenegonde), is nothing more than a bourgeois airhead.