Movie Review: Be Kind Rewind
Writing by alwayspaula on Friday, 29 of February , 2008 at 7:54 am
Yeah, that’s right, I saw it, you didn’t.
For some reason, the new flick by Michel Gondry (director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep, which he also wrote) reached the Ritz Bourse here in Philadelphia before making it to the more mainstream places. I guess that makes me lucky — especially so, since I can be the first to tell you that… it… no, doesn’t suck, but was a bit of a letdown.
Ok, New Jerseyans, it takes place in Passaic (where I was born). My standard line is that they could have invited Kevin Smith in for dialogue help and maybe speech coaching — but realism was hardly the point (though slacker-style comedy might have been).
You probably know the story: the Jack Black character somehow becomes magnetized and accidentally erases the entire stock of VHS tapes that is the bread and butter of Mos Def’s store (owned by Danny Glover). (No, they don’t use their real names in this — I just have no memory.) So Jack and Mos, while the owner is away, are forced to remake nearly every film in the store to satisfy customers who might just let Danny know that Mos is incompetent. (Danny’s a bit slow himself… he had to take a walk across town to discover something called the DVD.)
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