You name it, we shoot it
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz, Irv Gooch, Chandler Parker, Arjay Smith |
Director |
Michel Gondry |
Screenplay | Michel Gondry |
Music | Jean-Michel Bernard |
Cinematography | Ellen Kuras |
Editing | Jeff Buchanan |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2008 |
Produced by | Partizan |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Genre | Comedy |
Language | Mild |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | None |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | Zany, somewhat frentic comedy. Some mild sexual language and innuendo. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Couldn't be funnier if you made it up. | 10 | |
Die Burger Laetitia Pople | 10 | |
Cape Times Carina Chocano | 10 | |
iAfrica.com Rebekah Kendal | 8 | |
The Citizen Annette Bayne Be Kind, Rewind, is a very funny and warm-hearted film that will remind you why you love the old favourites. | 16 | |
Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 10 | |
24.com Niel Bekker Gosh darn it, ain't it cute? | 10 | |
BBC Matt McNally Nevertheless, those moments of Gondry inspiration make Be Kind Rewind worth your time, even if you decide to wait for the video. | 10 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind is whimsy with a capital W. No, it's WHIMSY in all caps. Make that all-caps italic boldface. Oh, never mind. I'm getting too whimsical. | 13 | |
eye Weekly Adam Nayman The self-styled man-child behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind aligns himself so closely with his protagonists this time out that the film plays as fascinatingly naked. | 10 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli Despite some solid laughs and a feel-good ending, Michael Gondry's Be Kind Rewind exists far from the mainstream and its appeal will be limited to those who embrace the kind of awkward quirkiness that defines the production. This comedy/fantasy/drama constantly reinvents itself as it progresses, skipping gleefully across genres, discarding subplots and plot threads, and occasionally turning nonsensical. It's a hodgepodge of tones and styles but, given a chance, it may grow on a viewer. | 13 | |
Rolling Stone Peter Travers Hate on Michel Gondry's whimsical comedy all you want. Be Kind Rewind would have to get juiced on killer steroids to even qualify as lightweight. | 13 | |
ScreenIt As in the real world, cute will only take you so far, and that's certainly the case with the premise here. Throw in a slapdash filmmaking style and an obvious shortage of imagination, smarts and most importantly, fun, and the result is a film that's certainly not memorable or good enough to warrant getting its own ''sweded'' treatment somewhere down the line. | 6 | |
Metacritic.com 35 critics | 10 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 110 critics | 13 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Slighter and less disciplined than Gondry's previous mind-benders. | 13 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 8502 Netizens Gondry lays out another visual feast | 14 | |
Average .. 56% | 11 |