Stupid waste of cash (Be Kind Rewind (DVD))

Member Name: Cammij

Product:	Be Kind Rewind (DVD)
Date:	07/09/08 (66 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: funny parts

Disadvantages: too much hubris and philosophy tying the funny skits together

I wasted four dollars to buy this movie on pay per view this week and I am still as mad as a wet hen over how awful it was. I blame Jack Black as he reprised his slacker loser persona that got so stale in "School of Rock". He does not realize that being annoying and nihilistically lazy is not protest nor revolutionay but simply childish.

Really this movie floundered in the same vein as the Saturday Night Live skits that are funny for 8 minutes can not carry a full length film. They have a funny idea, a couple of guys having to reshoot a whole catalog of movies with no money. It really is funny to see them re-make Ghostbusters, yet Jack Black projects his whole lack of respect for other people and there is a scene in the library where he really hows his lack of comprehension that disrespect for society is not humor. Or worse yet Jack's character harassing and mistreating a paying customer in the video store is somehow supposed to be entertainment while any adult woul see this as being a creepy jerk. The no budget rendering of "Puff Puff the Marshmellow Man" is sheer excellence.

King Kong, Rush Hour and Robocop were funny and then suddenly the plot invoves making the movies shorter and shorter as it becomes a distorted paen to Indeedent film and a philosophic foray into the social value of films. We all saw the trailers that showed Mos Def and Jack making horrible tacky remakes not the huge fluff of a silly plot use to tie these skits together.

This long and dull attempt of a plot is just too strained between real laughs. You will never see anything as funny as the camoflague they use to assail the power plant. They also wasted the chance to add hot interracial sex and did not even have a torrid on screen kiss that was so called for. They could have easily got the female lead "Alma" nude any number of times or better yet made a few porno remakes.

The worst part of this move is no "props" were given to the inspiration of homemade movies- the kids who set out at age 12 to make their own version of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It took thm 8 years to do it and this movie, viewed and respected by Spielberg himself and become known as "The Adaptation". You can see a few clips here on yout ube.....youtube.com/watch?v=78AOrMtUiY0 or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upqiq6MUAh0&fe ature=related

I strongly advise everyone to avoid wasting money on this trash. If you do rent it just scan ahead to the parts where they shot films. Also the black and white vintage looking film at the start is actually part of the plot and not the preview of another film.

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Summary: A funny set of skits of remaking movies tied with stupidity