Purely Joyful Movie!

hyped garbage

Great Film overall

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Gentlemen Broncos is a quirky comedy that never truly makes an impact I think it wants to and although has a few OK jokes, is never truly funny either. The acting is kind of crazy but probably one of the funniest things about this are the characters so I can't complain too much about it all. The plot is fairly insane though and it is interesting but in the end it's supposed to be a comedy and well little or no funny jokes affect it. I felt in the end it was firmly a below average film.The story as mentioned is crazy and although it is entertaining there is something not good about all the quirkiness involved. In the end too much effort is put into it being this very strange teen comedy, the quirkiness to be fair though is hit and miss. As the plot goes along we start to see the craziness about the book involved and a lot of the funny jokes also derive from the reading of the novels seen in this film basically about writing.Michael Angarano is actually not that bad in this movie as Benjamin and his timid like performance is quite nicely done. Jermaine Clement is funny but part of me felt him in his role of Chevalier just didn't work so well and his "outsider" type role makes him seem confused always. The funniest character has to be Lonnie Donaho played by Hector Jimenez who is so random and a person actually turns out being funny at the end and his contribution is widely accepted here.Jared Hess directs and co writes the script and well although I don't want to criticise his skill as both, he doesn't really do a top notch grade piece of work here. If he has a hand in the set design then he really didn't do a great job as the film even looks crazy at times, Hess provides only a few jokes and it can sometimes seem he substitutes jokes for quirkiness. I think also his obvious vision for this to be a kind of indie film also affects it and it shouldn't have been done all that way.It isn't all bad at all and far from it in my opinion, it has a few jokes and although could be seen as juvenile and crude potty humour still is welcome among the lack of funny moments. I liked as said Angarano's role and if it weren't for the un comedic air around the movie, his performance would have been much more appreciated like that of Napoleon Dynamites main man Jon Heder.Staying on the topic of Napoleon Dynamite, if you like that movie then it could be said you may just find this a gem of a movie because of it's similar quirky feel but also by the same Jarod Hess who did Dynamite too. If your not a fan of potty humour or your a hardened critic of any comedy then you may not like this so much and to be fair may give this much worse a score than I have as sometimes when a character is being that crude, you may just feel it needs to never be shown again.Overall it is Firmly a Under Par film although as you can probably see from the review I didn't find it to be that terrible. I usually don't like to say that only teens will enjoy a certain film but part of me feels I have to admit that it may only be for teens with this one, it is just so teen orientated with it's quirky tones that by the end you feel only a 14 year old would find it hilarious.

First off, I don't like comedies. They are not funny. I despise the Will Ferrel type movies (Anchorman, balls of fury, Talladega, etc) so called "humor" of that type that is not funny at all but just a bunch of repeated idiot jokes. That is corporate comedy. Its not even funny unless somebody tells you that it is. But with Americans inability to think with the slightest inkling of originality, it is no wonder they are so popular. The masses are.....This movie made me actually laugh. It was funny. The funniest movie I had seen in a long time. I find myself repeating some of the lines form it. IT is not a serious movie, Most movies that come out are not serious movies. Better sci-fi than the Bunger Games.The acting was hilarious and the faces of some of the actors were amazing. Sam Rockwell is excellent in his dual roles.I thought it better than Napoleon Dynamite.You can dislike this movie, but that only makes you a square in my book.

"Gentlemen Broncos" is so off-the-charts weird at times that you often can't tell whether it's breaking new ground as a brilliantly original and creative work - or just trying too hard.Michael Angarano ("Forbidden Kingdom") plays Benjamin Pervis, a friendless teen who lives with his penniless mom in a geodesic-domed house in rural Utah. Ben is a writer of sci-fi fantasy fiction who has one of his stories stolen by Ronald Chevalier (the delightful Jemaine Clement), a world-famous author with a James Mason voice. Ben also runs into a couple of bizarre indie-film makers who want to make the same story Chevalier stole from him (entitled "Yeast Lords" from the series "Gentlemen Broncos") into one of their shoestring-budget productions.It's hard to know whether writers Jared and Jerusha Hess (Jared also directed the film) have any real affection for their characters and the world they inhabit or whether they view them merely as objects of out-and-out mockery and ridicule. In fact, the characters, with their mouth-breathing, slack-jawed expressions and atonal line readings, achieve near-freak show status at times. It's this air of condescension, rather than the tale itself, that sometimes makes it hard for us to laugh at what's happening on screen.Despite this discomfort, however, there is still much to admire in the work. The movie has fun parodying both the unscrupulous nature of the publishing business and the accoutrements of low-budget filmmaking. Clement is marvelously deadpan as the sci-fi penner whose writer's-block forces him to scrap all traces of authorial integrity in pursuit of the almighty buck. And Angarano creates in Benjamin a character we can actually care about and root for. The enactments of scenes from Benjamin's novels are appropriately hokey and cheesy, and the movie also makes astute musical choices, particularly Zager and Evans' 1969 hit "In the Year 2525," which effectively book-ends the story.

Home schooled would-be fantasy writer Benjamin (Michael Angarano) goes to a writer's convention where he meets his hero, Chevalier (Jermaine Clement). After entering Chevalier's writing contest, Benjamin is stunned to discover that Chevalier has stolen his ideas and published a new book without crediting the young writer. Meanwhile, Benjamin has already sold the rights to his book to a local filmmaker who butchers his work, leaving him a bit frustrated and volatile.A few years ago, director Jared Hess caught lightning in a bottle with the cost-nothing-to-make blockbuster "Napoleon Dynamite." "Napoleon" was a weird piece of ridiculousness that you either loved or hated and I happened to love. To this day if I'm flipping channels and come across the "Canned Heat" dance scene, I stop down to watch it no matter what. Since then, however, Hess has been chasing that success like an Indian casino poker player dumping his paycheck into the flop (not the best analogy I've ever put together, I admit). "Nacho Libre" drew in a big name (Jack Black) and made a little money but flopped critically. "Broncos" takes flopping to a whole new level. With a production budget of around $10 million, this stinker has brought in approximately $200,000 total. It's really hard these days for a movie to not at least break even when it's all said and done, but "Broncos" has made that feat look easy.This movie has absolutely no flow and very, very few laughs. The script is thin and the story just not worth telling, at least the way it's told here. The whole thing is just uninspired and that immature quirkiness that made "Napoleon" work so well is completely absent here, replaced only with cringe-inducing moments of utter stupidity. In all seriousness, the epic failure of "Broncos" may very well make it the last mainstream movie Hess ever directs, which is sad considering where he started.Check out my site: www.thesoapboxoffice.blogspot.com/