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Unselfconsciously juvenile and overwhelmingly quirky, Gentlemen Broncos offers a lot of potty humor but isn't terribly funny.
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Runs out of ideas after 20 minutes. Apr 30, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Runs out of ideas after 20 minutes.
Peter Bradshaw
Veers from hilarious to unwatchable. Apr 30, 2010 | Rating: 2/5
Veers from hilarious to unwatchable.
Nick Hasted
This latest from writer-director Jared Hess is another unsavoury stew of kitsch juvenilia that furthers the rot that set in between his first two films... Apr 29, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This latest from writer-director Jared Hess is another unsavoury stew of kitsch juvenilia that furthers the rot that set in between his first two films...
David Jenkins
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. Nov 25, 2009 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
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.
Randy Cordova
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. Nov 13, 2009 | Rating: D- | Full Review…
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.
Tom Long
Where do you go after rocket-propelled deer statuary, cyclops warriors in golf carts, and Mike White with a dubbed Irish accent? Nov 12, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Where do you go after rocket-propelled deer statuary, cyclops warriors in golf carts, and Mike White with a dubbed Irish accent?
Steven Rea
I may be one of the few that loved this movie, but it was a blast, and I don't have any fear saying that. Jul 22, 2012 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
I may be one of the few that loved this movie, but it was a blast, and I don't have any fear saying that.
Kevin Carr
Rockwell is the film's only consistently amusing presence. Jul 16, 2010 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Rockwell is the film's only consistently amusing presence.
Nick Schager
Classic underdog vs smug establishment stuff, you might think. But it's all played out in puke-slathered anti-comedy sketches better suited to no-budget YouTube videos than a multimillion-dollar film. May 6, 2010 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Classic underdog vs smug establishment stuff, you might think. But it's all played out in puke-slathered anti-comedy sketches better suited to no-budget YouTube videos than a multimillion-dollar film.
Ken McIntyre
This deliberately amateurish, self-indulgent effort manages to be odd while rarely remembering to be funny. May 3, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
This deliberately amateurish, self-indulgent effort manages to be odd while rarely remembering to be funny.
Allan Hunter
The presence of Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement is the main point of interest in this so-so comedy... May 3, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The presence of Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement is the main point of interest in this so-so comedy...
Alistair Harkness
Gentlemen Broncos is a movie that sets out to be so bad it's good, like an Edward D. Wood movie. But it ends up so slow-paced, unfunny and supercilious that it's just mind-numbingly terrible. Apr 30, 2010 | Full Review…
Gentlemen Broncos is a movie that sets out to be so bad it's good, like an Edward D. Wood movie. But it ends up so slow-paced, unfunny and supercilious that it's just mind-numbingly terrible.
Bizarre and oddly written, Gentlemen Broncos is a satire about the world of new sci-fi novels sucess and it's cinematic adaptation, as well it's fans. Dispite being silly, present a juvenile screenplay and seldom have an actually funny scene, the couple of filmmakes, Jared and Jerusha Hess, show another quirky view of the society and another interesting movie to watch. Fresh.
Super Reviewer
This is by the creator of "Napoleon Dynamite", and if you love that movie, then you will love this movie. Much of the same quiet, off-beat dry humor. It's about a kid who writes a sci-fi story, and a famous author steals his story. Pretty simple, but very weird and a lot of it makes no sense. The sci-fi scenes that are taking place in his story are some of the weirdest scenes I have ever seen, some are funny, but most are just way too out there. Jermain Clement plays the author, and he is great! I've loved everything he's done since "Flight of the Concords"(LOOK IT UP!). Not as good, or classic as "Dynamite"(do the chickens have large tallens?), but it's still worth a view if your into that humor. If your not, then just skip it and quit being a jerk.
A successful pulp author who's run out of ideas steals a teen author's sci-fi novella. The beyond-offbeat tone, which might be characterized as "nerd grotesque," is uneven and takes some serious getting used to, but the movie is never boring; Jemaine Clement's often hilarious performance as the pompous Dr. Chevalier and the bizarre dramatizations of the epic "Yeast Masters" (which feature cyclopses, flying stags and stolen gonads) makes it worth the price of admission. Not for everyone, but not nearly the disaster it's been made out to be.
Gentlemen Broncos is a valiant effort from the writer/director of random oddball treats Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, but it falls short. The premise of a budding teenage sci-fi writer whose work is stolen by a fading icon of the genre is fun enough, especially when said work is portrayed onscreen in hilarious fashion by the great Sam Rockwell. Unfortunately the movie just relied too heavily on the same evaporating quirk that justified viewings of the previous two movies. Don't get me wrong, there were some genuinely entertaining and demented parts, just not enough of them. There's really no reason to go out of your way to see Gentlemen Broncos. I bought a used copy at a flea market for five bucks and got what I paid for. I'll leave it at that...
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