Be Kind Rewind (new Jack Black film)

[mattstick]

Saw a trailer last night -- looks hilarious.  Although I'll never get those 90 minutes back from Nacho Libre, this might go a long way to making me forget that film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934/

[antelope19]

I saw that last night as well.  I am not nearly as optimistic as you are.

[mattstick]

Well, the premise is pretty funny.

[Caravan2001]

Saw a trailer last night -- looks hilarious.  Although I'll never get those 90 minutes back from Nacho Libre, this might go a long way to making me forget that film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934/

I had couldn;t get through 20 min of Nacho Libre....but I love JB and Mos Def...

[rowjimmy]

Michael Gondry directed "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." One of my favorite films.

[sophist]

Saw a trailer last night -- looks hilarious.  Although I'll never get those 90 minutes back from Nacho Libre, this might go a long way to making me forget that film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0799934/

Nacho Libre def sucked, and this does look really funny imo. 

[mattstick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080216/film_nm/berlin_rewind_dc

(Reuters) - Actor Jack Black stars in a comical and nostalgic tribute to the pioneers of cinema and jazz in "Be Kind Rewind," which brings the 2008 Berlin Film Festival to a fitting close on Saturday.
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Directed by Frenchman Michel Gondry, best known for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," the movie tells the story of two friends who try to save a dying video rental business by making their own versions of films.

Black, as exuberant on screen as ever, plays Jerry, a delusional mechanic who is convinced the authorities are using radiation to contaminate and control people's minds.

His sidekick is Mike, played by Mos Def, who works with ageing Fats Waller fan Fletcher (Danny Glover) in a rental store threatened with demolition.

When Jerry is magnetized attempting a hair-brained sabotage mission on a power station, he accidentally wipes the videos.

The pair decide the only way to save the store is to make instant versions of the erased originals, triggering a madcap race against time to remake "Ghostbusters," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Carrie," "King Kong" and many more.

As their scheme becomes increasingly successful, the local community becomes involved and unites in a final bid to save the shop with an original biopic of Fats Waller.

"I always saw Fats Waller as some punk figure of the time," Gondry told reporters.

"He was completely disrespectful ... but yet his music was very elaborate and joyful," he said, speaking in English.

"There is a sense of resistance in the way the African-American community produced some of the most beautiful music of all time by creating their own form of entertainment."

"Be Kind Rewind" recalls the "rent parties" where jazz legends like Waller and James P. Johnson would play the piano and guests would contribute money to pay the host's rent.

It also makes a gentle dig at the film studios when a representative, played by Sigourney Weaver, rounds up the re-makes, has them steamrollered on the street outside and threatens Fletcher with life in jail and a billion-dollar fine.

The irony of using a major distributor and Hollywood stars to make the film is not lost on Gondry.

"The movies itself cost a certain amount of money, it's having quite wide distribution, it has people that you would recognize, so there is a contradiction here," he said.

"It was just trying to prove somehow that people can create their entertainment.

"It all comes from the sort of utopian concept I had for long years that if people gather together among friends or neighbors and did any type of shooting they would have a great time screening it the next week and watching it together."

The movie is released later in February.

[Hicks]

d00ds, Michel Gondry is a bonafied genius!  I am sure his bowel movements are more compelling than "Nacho Libre". 

[hoodie22]

My best friend saw it and said it was one of the worst movies shes ever seen and a complete waste of time.

However, I still want to judge for myself.

[Caravan2001]

Everyone I know that has seen it says it licks it....I'll still prolly netflix it though

[bluecaravan521]

 :| What a bummer to hear that its not very good, I was looking forward to it...

[mattstick]

:| What a bummer to hear that its not very good, I was looking forward to it...

A lot of people don't get Gondry - I still believe it will be awsome.

[rowjimmy]

Paging Igbo...

[Igbo]

It's a Sunday afternoon rental. It's a cute film, not really all that funny, short and it just kinds of ends on a very sweet note, like a fucking Long-Distance Telephone commercial.

RENT IT, dont pay $8.50 to see it.

[camarco78]

I saw this movie at at press screening, joy of working in corporate radio, and I agree the movie was not as good as I was expecting.  It had funny moments, but all in all.. it was more of a "cute film" than a comedy.

Nowhere near as bad as Nacho Libre as for a JB film, but it is more like Shallow Hal.