The Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best (2012)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 12
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Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 5
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Recently dumped by his girlfriend, underachiever Alex (O'Nan) embarks on an impromptu road trip with his new bandmate, the eccentric Jim (Michael Weston). By channeling their inner children and giving a new meaning to the term "lo-fi," Alex and Jim find their unique style by bringing the sound of children's instruments to their unsuspecting fans. Playing a series of bizarre shows and experiencing multiple near-disasters, Alex and Jim's persistence takes them on a true coming-of-age journey - one
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Cast
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Ryan O'Nan
Alex, Alex Logan -
Michael Weston
Jim -
Arielle Kebbel
Cassidy -
Melissa Leo
Sarah -
Andrew McCarthy
Brian -
Jason Ritter
Kyle -
Christopher McDonald
Jack -
Wilmer Valderrama
Jason -
Jake Miller
Jackson -
Arielle Kebel
Cassidy
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All Critics (19) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (12)
While the movie itself is an uneven, sometimes preachy affair, it's alive with possibilities whenever [Weston's] on screen.
Top CriticInitially, this low-budget film writes a lot of checks on the First National Bank of Whimsy, but I was astonished when none of them bounced.
A likably goofy, lo-fi indie propelled by the syncopations of a cheesy keyboard - and the cheesy dreams of its hapless heroes.
Inner child? Open road? No, this film is actually about Mr. O'Nan and his wan, scruffy innocence.
An indie about-tell me if this sounds familiar-a brokenhearted sad sack who travels cross-country with a weirdo and a too-hot-for-these-dorks woman on a road trip of healing and self-actualization.
Offering little more than flat karaoke versions of Sundance-style hits, this is strictly an amateur-hour affair.
An offbeat, hipster-inflected road movie that steadfastly refuses to conform to expectation and sense. A to-scale victory of quirky charm and feeling over sagacity.
O'Nan deciphers in comical yet solemn ways, young characters representing warring sides of himself. While doing battle with joblessness, alienation, working stiff drudgery, and existential redemption through art and the imagination.
This ode to indie legitimacy proves to be too cartoonish to feel real and not outrageous enough to be memorable ...
Do we really need another film about underachieving white men with scruffy beards? Ryan O'Nan thinks so.
It's just a shame about the script, which follows such a prescribed track of Alexander Payne-ish road-trippery that nothing really rings true.
It gets nowhere slowly.
It may have some flaws but The Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best is still the kind of underdog movie you want to clasp to your heart. It is an unexpected charmer.
The comedy is at odds, perhaps even at war, with the gravitational downward pull of bittersweet seriousness, and the sucrose content is pretty high by the end. But it's an entertaining film.
O' Nan needs to retool and get some new material.
Good fun, but O'Nan doesn't take this film nearly as far as it could go, leaving the plot and its characters somewhat two-dimensional in their obvious stereotyping.
[A] highly likeable buddy movie.
Audience Reviews for The Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best
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- Jim: I'm on the show, you guys deaf? Why else would I be wearing this awesome cape if I was not playing the show today?!
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- Alex: I had no idea it was a fake knife.
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