At one level, it is pretty bad. Then, on the other level, it is downright horrible. Unless you're an entertainment masochist, neither is very much fun.
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11/25/09
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Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
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Reviews Counted:57
Fresh:9
Rotten:48
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Unselfconsciously juvenile and overwhelmingly quirky, Gentlemen Broncos offers a lot of potty humor but isn't terribly funny.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Oct 30, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge), is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story... [More]
Starring: Michael Angarano, Jennifer Coolidge, Jemaine Clement, Sam Rockwell
Director: Jared Hess
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Reviews for Gentlemen Broncos
Top Criticthe celebration of pure imagination without the baggage of a value judgment to cloud the issue
11/16/09
Excruciating...its awfulness is so profound that it actually takes on a perverse fascination.
11/16/09
A deeply weird movie that bears no signs of any interference from any Hollywood types. For better or worse, this is what comes out of Hess' brain when he's left to his own devices.
11/13/09
Don't pay money to see it, don't waste your time if it comes on cable; you might not even want to bother reading the rest of this review.
11/13/09
Top CriticA whole bunch of fecal, scrotal and pukal jokes have been planted in Gentlemen Broncos to distract us from its lack of narrative momentum.
11/13/09
As the struggle toward something new and different overwhelms the film, it becomes less and less human, less and less funny and less and less worth the effort to meet it on its own terms.
11/12/09
A tedious and unfocused concoction involving science fiction, plagiarism and the nightgown industry.
11/12/09
Top CriticWhere do you go after rocket-propelled deer statuary, cyclops warriors in golf carts, and Mike White with a dubbed Irish accent?
11/12/09
Top CriticJared Hess, who made Napoleon Dynamite, a film I admit I didn't get, has made a film I don't even begin to get.
11/12/09
Top CriticIt feels almost mean-spirited to laugh at Benjamin's travails. He has done nothing to provoke them and seems incapable of fending for himself.
11/08/09
Life is too precious to waste it watching a disaster like this one.
11/06/09
The deliberately low-rent cheesiness of the special effects, as well as the childish grossness of the humor, give "Gentlemen Broncos" a distinctive and original flavor.
11/06/09
The script is condescending to its characters to the point that poor Jennifer Coolidge should file abuse charges.
11/06/09
There's something a little tired about Gentlemen Broncos.
11/06/09
There's a lesson behind Gentlemen Broncos, the new film from director Jared Hess: Don't try to mock above your talent level.
11/06/09
Top CriticGentlemen Broncos pushes beyond the perimeter of the previous films’ massive in-jokes to create a universe that is not only nonsensical but unappealing and off-putting to boot.
11/06/09
What Michael Bay did for the Hollywood blockbuster with his second Transformers movie, Jared Hess has now done for the low-budget indie with Gentlemen Broncos -- namely, stain an entire genre with a sense of soulless calculation.
11/06/09
Top CriticThe sci-fi themed Gentlemen Broncos doesn't just visit Planet Quirk, it crash lands upon it.
11/06/09
Top CriticIndie comedy is too gross, cringe-inducing to be funny.
11/05/09
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