Release Date:
Friday, February 22, 2008
Directed by: Michel Gondry
What it Promises:
Michel Gondry takes his arts and crafts special effects techniques (The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep) and applies them to your movie memories. Jack Black and Mos Def remake the likes of Ghostbusters and Rocky as employees of a bargain-basement video store who have to scramble to replace their accidentally-erased stock.
What it Delivers:
A movie that's kind of sweet and kind of funny but never reaches the lows of "embarrassingly cheesy" or the highs of "laugh-out-loud funny." The gimmick of homemade versions of popular movies is a good one, but after a while Be Kind starts to feel like a YouTube video you're hoping really isn't as long as the load time suggests.
Best Part:
Black and Def's Ghostbusters, hands-down. And double credit goes to Gondry for actually having a Sigourney Weaver cameo later in the film that never once references her role in Ghostbusters. Worth the money?
No. Since the whole hook of this movie is its low-rent quality, it's not going to lose anything in the translation from theater to your TV. So it's worth seeing, but you can wait for DVD.
What it Promises:
Michel Gondry takes his arts and crafts special effects techniques (The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep) and applies them to your movie memories. Jack Black and Mos Def remake the likes of Ghostbusters and Rocky as employees of a bargain-basement video store who have to scramble to replace their accidentally-erased stock.
What it Delivers:
A movie that's kind of sweet and kind of funny but never reaches the lows of "embarrassingly cheesy" or the highs of "laugh-out-loud funny." The gimmick of homemade versions of popular movies is a good one, but after a while Be Kind starts to feel like a YouTube video you're hoping really isn't as long as the load time suggests.
Best Part:
Black and Def's Ghostbusters, hands-down. And double credit goes to Gondry for actually having a Sigourney Weaver cameo later in the film that never once references her role in Ghostbusters. Worth the money?
No. Since the whole hook of this movie is its low-rent quality, it's not going to lose anything in the translation from theater to your TV. So it's worth seeing, but you can wait for DVD.