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Be Kind Rewind

2008

Michel Gondry

Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow ...

6.3

18,820

Comedy. Fantasy Jerry (Jack Black) is a junkyard worker who attempts to sabotage a power plant he suspects of causing his headaches. But he inadvertently causes his brain to become magnetized, leading to the unintentional destruction of all the movies in his friend's (Mos Def) store. In order to keep the store's one loyal customer, an elderly lady with a tenuous grasp on reality, the pair re-create a long line of films including The Lion King, Rush ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"A love letter to the technology and movies of the 1980s as well as celebrating the DIY ethos of the YouTube generation."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Whimsy with a capital W (...) This is a movie that takes place in no possible world, which may be a shame, if not for the movie, then for possible worlds (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"It's an exuberant, fanciful fable set amid the scruffy outskirts of American society, where people's need for escapism coincides with their desire to participate in its creation"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"The remake/parody sequences are outstanding, but Black's all-over-the-place mania and Mos Def's slightly too bland orphan hero don't quite tie the rest of the picture together (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"The question of who controls popular culture is at the heart of Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind, and it's hard to imagine anyone else handling it with such a sure, light touch."	POS

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