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goshwow

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I don't know what the big deal is. I think you just have to get it. If you get it, nobody can tell you that "it's got a good concept, but executed dully." It's got heart, it's hilarious if you've seen the films that are...
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I don't know what the big deal is. I think you just have to get it. If you get it, nobody can tell you that "it's got a good concept, but executed dully." It's got heart, it's hilarious if you've seen the films that are "sweded," and it does a great job of allowing the viewer to fall in love with the characters. The saving grace here is it's creativity. Watch it, screw everyone else : )

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Posted nov 26, 2008 8:46 am pt

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An o.k. movie at best that I felt could have been much better but something was missing. The main story didn't really fit with the Sweeded movie parts. I really did enjoy watching the scenes in which they recreated movies and some of it was...
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An o.k. movie at best that I felt could have been much better but something was missing. The main story didn't really fit with the Sweeded movie parts. I really did enjoy watching the scenes in which they recreated movies and some of it was pretty funny. If you are a fan of Jack Black you may like this movie a lot.

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Posted nov 2, 2008 12:31 am pt

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I liked the concept, but the film just wasn't that well executed. It's actually quite dull. Still, it has a unique concept so watch at your own will. I don't recommend you watch it, nor do I recommend you keep away from it. If you want to watch it...
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I liked the concept, but the film just wasn't that well executed. It's actually quite dull. Still, it has a unique concept so watch at your own will. I don't recommend you watch it, nor do I recommend you keep away from it. If you want to watch it then watch it. This is just my opinion.

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Posted oct 16, 2008 5:47 am pt

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What I have to say about this movie: Nothing

I laugh yes, I was expecting this kind of movie yes, and I watched it for curiosity. The story is for me a joke and seems failing and missing parts. I made films and somre records and is...
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What I have to say about this movie: Nothing

I laugh yes, I was expecting this kind of movie yes, and I watched it for curiosity. The story is for me a joke and seems failing and missing parts. I made films and somre records and is hard in one day so they must give me the formula for that. My score

The screenplay is design for well makes us laugh and in some parts it worked but is very fantastic first that the man survived the transformer sabotage and then he was magnetize well no comments about it. Was easier said that the movies burnt or anything else but that give me a break.

Well in that desperation they start making the movies, funny but the performance must be improved before the release. At the end we had this kind of movie only for make you laugh in some parts and cry in others.

Bad bad but lets see funny. Enjoy it but do not expect more.

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Posted aug 3, 2008 11:14 am pt

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Tiene sus buenos momento, para ser una comedia de Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine y Science of Sleep) yo pensaba que iba a ser mejor. ¿O sera que no me gusto porque aparece Jack Black?.. Tardo 30 minutos en generarme...
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Tiene sus buenos momento, para ser una comedia de Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine y Science of Sleep) yo pensaba que iba a ser mejor. ¿O sera que no me gusto porque aparece Jack Black?.. Tardo 30 minutos en generarme interes, un interes que desapare...(read more) cio pronto.

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Posted jul 18, 2008 3:18 pm pt

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Be Kind Rewind is the screwball comedy of two friends, Mike (Mos Def)and Jerry (Jack Black) who run an old fasioned VHS video store, owned by Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover). One day when Jerry is electrocuted by accident, he becomes magnatized and...
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Be Kind Rewind is the screwball comedy of two friends, Mike (Mos Def)and Jerry (Jack Black) who run an old fasioned VHS video store, owned by Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover). One day when Jerry is electrocuted by accident, he becomes magnatized and eveything metal sticks to him. When he enters the video store and touches the tapes they all become erased. Not knowing what to do, the two buddies refilm every movie, called sweding, and sell them. These two refilm evrything from Ghostbusters to 2001: A Space Oddysey, and eventually their own film. Practically overnight they become filmmakers and actors and the whole town is playing along with their scheme. The whole town, instead of getting angry and understanding they've been ripped off, help Mike and Jerry. Ofcourse a movie like this is stupid but sincere, and that's exactly what Be Kind Rewind is. I'm mildly recommending this mainly because it wasn't too long. Most of the time you get stupid buddy comedies, like Blades of Glory, that drag on, but this movie wasn't too long which is a plus, because nobody wants to sit through something like this for more than an hour and a half. My main problem with this film is that it's one of the movies where the whole town are a bunch of idiots and play along and become a part of it, for example like Lars and the Real Girl. Also, Mos Def is really good in this and I think eventually, just maybe, he can become a star, because the guy is really tallented and knows how to pick up a film. So there is my mild recommendation for Be Kind Rewind.

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Posted jul 14, 2008 7:52 am pt

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I guess it was okay, there wasn't really any hilarious parts just some comic antics and slight fun poked at several different movies. Jack Black is great but Mos Def(who I haven't heard of before this movie) doesn't exactly offer much to the film,...
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I guess it was okay, there wasn't really any hilarious parts just some comic antics and slight fun poked at several different movies. Jack Black is great but Mos Def(who I haven't heard of before this movie) doesn't exactly offer much to the film, but the movie is okay over all.

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Posted jul 7, 2008 9:56 am pt

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Be Kind Rewind has its ups in downs. Jack Black and Mos Def made the perfect duo for this unusually funny film. I, personally, thought the plot was the only element in the film that kept the movie alive. Everything else was a little sloppy. There...
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Be Kind Rewind has its ups in downs. Jack Black and Mos Def made the perfect duo for this unusually funny film. I, personally, thought the plot was the only element in the film that kept the movie alive. Everything else was a little sloppy. There were some extremely unecessary characters that showed up and stuck around, and those characters seemed hard to befriend for the 102 minute-duration of the movie. Danny Glover fit his role well; an old, old man looking for retirement. Wait a minute, why does that sound so familiar? Anyway, Be Kind Rewind is a good movie to watch with your friends, but probably not a good movie to watch more than once or twice.

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Posted jun 23, 2008 11:51 pm pt

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But movie had some laugh out loud funny parts and some really sweet parts. Too bad it was just so inconsistent in presenting these two parts throughout the movie.

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Posted jun 23, 2008 3:03 am pt

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While this film did not live up to my expectations, it was still a good watch. Light hearted and humorus, it is meant as a feel good comedy. There were some downsides however. My biggest complant was the last act of the film...it was just...I'm...
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While this film did not live up to my expectations, it was still a good watch. Light hearted and humorus, it is meant as a feel good comedy. There were some downsides however. My biggest complant was the last act of the film...it was just...I'm not really sure what to call it. I don't like the whole, our past can be whatever we want it to be mindset. It's as if the movie's end message was, lieing is ok if it makes you and others feel good. That's somthing I'm just not ok with. Regardless, I did enjoy parts of the film and it was worth a once watch.

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Posted jun 19, 2008 5:27 pm pt

• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  It's refreshing to see Gondry's moviemaking still possessed by the community spirit he caught a few years ago with "Dave Chappelle's Block Party."

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
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  The visual wit, game performances, and overflowing humanity have more than made up for the shortcomings by the time the film finds a final moment that's simultaneously abrupt and magical.

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
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  It's as if Gondry lets his performers settle into their parts and feel their way through their stories. It gives the film an ambling pace and a unique chemistry that bubbles with strange and unexpected flavors.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  A love letter to the technology and movies of the 1980s as well as celebrating the DIY ethos of the YouTube generation.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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  A charmingly off-the-wall little tale. Black doesn't do anything he hasn't done before (in fact, he's already done his remake of King Kong!).

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
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  At its best when it is at its most freewheeling -- when it tramples past logic, motivation and basic plausibility in its pursuit of a funny, whimsical kind of nonsense.

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
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  in a larger sense Be Kind Rewind declares that the riches of cinema history touch each of us personally. Films become so deep a part of us that we own them that our memories of them, whether faithful or fanciful, become their meanings. As a movie critic and, even before and above that, a movie lover, how can I disagree with that?

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
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  An achingly sweet, shambling creation that takes its time and wanders through slow-moving sight gags and odd supporting performances (like Mia Farrow's, as a dithery, lonely woman who is among the store's only customers) and ends up with a marvelously warm community-melding scene out of maybe 1924, with a bunch of people standing around on the street watching a black-and-white silent film.

  by Andrew O'Hehir | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  In its sweet, lackadaisical way, Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind illuminates the pleasures and paradoxes of movie love.

  by A.O. Scott | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  The films of Michel Gondry aren't for everyone, but viewers who vibe to his playful, cerebral, wildly imaginative sensibility might get a kick out of Be Kind Rewind.

  by Ann Hornaday | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
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  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.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
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  There's nothing not to like about the movie, a teensy, hand-crocheted trifle, fitted with embroidered pockets of guest stardom, including Mia Farrow as the nice local lady who wants to see what "Ghostbusters" is all about and "Ghostbusters'" own Sigourney Weaver as a movie-studio corporate meanie, ha-ha.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
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  Gondry and the gifted indie cinematographer Ellen Kuras have fun with the amateur versions of the likes of "RoboCop," "Rush Hour," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "King Kong" and "Driving Miss Daisy." These snippets are fun but frustratingly brief.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
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  The film doesn't hold together. But it's the work of a real director, however fantastic his sensibility.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
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  Thirty minutes into Be Kind Rewind, you may wonder what you're doing in the theater. Sixty minutes into it, if you have stayed, you will know.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »