This is a fun movie, unless you hate Jack Black and Dante "Mos Def" Smith. Its a funny little comedy that plays on your love of movies and takes a shot at "Big Chain Video"stores and movie studios. Essentially Black and Mos Def play well meaning but bumbling Jersey guys. Black is the more disaster prone of the two. Black is magnetized in a power plant accident, and unfortunately erases all the video tapes at the local struggling independent video store. To keep people from going to the local video chain, they start making their own versions of the destroyed movies (from memory of course). Hilarity and sweding ensues. This is all set against the classic movie storyline of neighborhood development destroying longtime residents and businesses.
All of the acting in this movie is fantastic and very funny. And while Black and Mos Def are typically hilarious for me, the shining star for me is the character of Alma played by Melonie Diaz. She is swept up into the two guys video plans, and provides them with a very levelheaded but still quirky balance for their bumbling enthusiasm.
The best part of the whole movie is the sweded movies (Black/Mos Def's short versions of the movies). I laughed non-stop through this entire section of the middle of the film, particularly at Black's portrayal of Jessica Tandy in "Driving Miss Daisy".
Its a unique comedy with heart, in a season full of sappy sweet comedy drivel. Its sweet with out being sappy, and its edgy without being too much. I wouldn't normally go to see this sort of thing in a theater but I am happy that I did. If you like Jack Black and/or Dante "Mos Def" Smith, if you like parodies of movie classics both modern and old, if you want to find out how bitchy New Jersey folks are, then you will like this movie.
Jesse "Baron Ironfury" Stevens
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1 comment:
i think this premise is hillarious, and black is definitly a good guy to be in a film like this.
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