Chicago - Writer/Director Jared Hess’ universe, where obscure pop culture references and strange survivors abide, gets another workout with the spontaneously funny “Gentlemen Broncos,” which also features Mike White and Jennifer Coolidge.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Gentlemen Broncos features the affable Michael Angarano as Benjamin, a science fiction nerd with a penchant for creating his own intergalactic stories. His widowed mother, Judith (Jennifer Coolidge) is his biggest cheerleader, but is racked with bi-polar bouts of crying in conjunction with a fledgling designer nightgown business. When she sends Benjamin away to a sci-fi writing camp, it puts into motion the next phase of their lives.
At the camp Benjamin meets Tabatha (Halley Feiffer), a perplexing fellow nerdling who vaguely takes a shine to him. She reads his stories of Bronco, a sci-fi action hero who is searching for his lost testicle. Bronco is a lusty adventurer, who rides bucks (male deer) that can shoot laser beams.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Gentlemen Broncos features the affable Michael Angarano as Benjamin, a science fiction nerd with a penchant for creating his own intergalactic stories. His widowed mother, Judith (Jennifer Coolidge) is his biggest cheerleader, but is racked with bi-polar bouts of crying in conjunction with a fledgling designer nightgown business. When she sends Benjamin away to a sci-fi writing camp, it puts into motion the next phase of their lives.
At the camp Benjamin meets Tabatha (Halley Feiffer), a perplexing fellow nerdling who vaguely takes a shine to him. She reads his stories of Bronco, a sci-fi action hero who is searching for his lost testicle. Bronco is a lusty adventurer, who rides bucks (male deer) that can shoot laser beams.
- 11/13/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Gentlemen Broncos isn’t as good as Napoleon Dynamite, but it’s better than the disappointing Nacho Libre—however, your enjoyment of the film will depend on your degree of affection for Jared & Jerusha Hess’ trademark quirkiness . As for me, while I did laugh at certain points in the movie, Gentlemen Broncos is an uneven olio of oddball humor that sacrifices character and genuine emotion in favor of “strange for strangeness” goofiness.
Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) is a shy and sensitive 17-year-old home-schooled kid who writes science fiction stories and lives with his Mom Judith (Jennifer Coolidge), an aspiring but failed nightwear designer, in a tiny Utah town. When Ben attends the Cletus Festival writers camp hosted by the legendary Sf author Dr. Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), he submits his story Yeast Lords: The Bronco Years for Chevalier’s contest in which one winner will get 1,000 copies of their book...
Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) is a shy and sensitive 17-year-old home-schooled kid who writes science fiction stories and lives with his Mom Judith (Jennifer Coolidge), an aspiring but failed nightwear designer, in a tiny Utah town. When Ben attends the Cletus Festival writers camp hosted by the legendary Sf author Dr. Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), he submits his story Yeast Lords: The Bronco Years for Chevalier’s contest in which one winner will get 1,000 copies of their book...
- 10/29/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Allan Dart)
- Starlog
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