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Be Kind Rewind
Posted on July 21, 2008
Filed Under Box Office Reviews, Dean's Reviews, Independent Films
Not even close to the movie I expected to see after viewing the trailers, Be Kind Rewind is a sweet, heartfelt movie about community and friendship. Sure there are some weird plot twists, like Jack Black’s character becoming “magnetized,” and you are required, on several occasions, to suspend disbelief. But this is Michel Gondry, so why would you expect anything else? At its core, however, Be Kind Rewind is his perhaps his most accessible film. The characters are odd, eccentric even, but also warm and fuzzy. In fact they are downright innocent. Even the love subplots never come to fruition, but are merely insinuated. In these ways it takes after his last film, The Science of Sleep, only with friendship replacing the intensity and sadness of unrequited love. I need to remind myself sometimes that Gondry wasn’t the sole writer behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman co-wrote). Just because that film’s charachters were so brutally real doesn’t mean that was all his doing. When Michel Gondry is running the show he has a tendancy to be much more sentimental, as if he’s telling a fairy tale or bedtime story.
Be Kind Rewind is just that, a fairy tale of a film, and it’s certainly a wonderfully ride. Michel Gondry’s world is always imaginative and beautiful, and this is no exception. In the scope of his career, I would put this below Eternal Sunshine but above The Science of Sleep. This film is most definitely worth seeing!
8 out of 10 rating
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