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Be Kind Rewind

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Original title

Be Kind Rewind

Year

2008

Running time

101 min.

Country

United States

Director

Michel Gondry

Screenwriter

Michel Gondry

Cast

Music

Jean-Michelle Bernard

Cinematography

Ellen Kuras

Producer

New Line Cinema

Genre

Comedy. Fantasy | Film In Film

Synopsis

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 Hour, Ghostbusters, When We Were Kings, Back to the Future, Driving Miss Daisy, and Robocop, putting themselves and their townspeople into it. They become the biggest stars in their neighborhood.

Critics' reviews

"A love letter to the technology and movies of the 1980s as well as celebrating the DIY ethos of the YouTube generation."

Lou Lumenick: New York Post
"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)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"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"

Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter
"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."

Keith Phipps: AV Club
"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)"

Kim Newman: Empire

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