Be Kind Rewind

How come there's no comma in the title?

BE KIND REWIND, starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, and Mia Farrow, is a disappointingly lame movie about these two guys (Black and Def) and an unknown actress girl who remake blockbuster movies with their own video camera and acting and rent them out at their locally-owned video store. Funny premise. $hitty movie.

Actually, there's more to the story, but it doesn't really matter. Just know that Black's character takes on a power plant and ends up demagnetizing (erasing) all the VHS movie tapes in Glover and Def's video store. In order to save face and the store from being shut down, they record their own versions of your favorite movies and the customers actually start demanding more "Sweded" tapes from them. The movie also ended sappy, so that added to my disappointment.

I really like Jack Black in a non-homo way. I even like Mos Def. These two guys were hilarious, except when they were actually filming the fake movies. I don't know. I just didn't think it was that funny. Even the ghetto special effects that they used were not really funny to me. Their dialogue throughout the movie made me crack up here and there, but their movies? Who the hell would wanna watch that crap? I think WE could make better versions than them.

Dave and Leish really liked this movie, so I was expecting to be dying laughing, but I was kinda at a loss for laughs. Maybe it got hyped up too much. Maybe I expected way too much. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood. I actually fell asleep at the end.

Sorry to say, this was one of the worst movies that I've seen in awhile. Comparable to STRICTLY BALLROOM. I kept expecting Mel Gibson to pop out from behind one of the video shelves and start kicking a$$. I kept expecting Woody Allen and his Korean daughter-wife to pop out from behind Mia Farrow's behind and start awkwardly having a threesome. I give this movie two Oreo cookies and a White-bre(a)d meat juhn sandwich...