Gentlemen Broncos Movie Review

Title: Gentlemen Broncos

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Synopsis: Benjamin, home-schooled by his eccentric mother, is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker.

Gentlemen Broncos Film Review

Gentlemen Broncos Score: 28

63	Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
	Teeming with socially awkward misfits, Gentlemen Broncos is not without its absurdist charms, although Hess (who co-scripted with his wife, Jerusha) pushes the envelope in ways it doesn't need pushing.
60	New York Magazine by David Edelstein
	The best part is Jemaine Clement as Benjamin�??s grandiose genre hero, Dr. Ronald Chevalier. Even if you love him on "Flight of the Conchords," you�??ll be unprepared for his genius--and charisma.
58	Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy
	As the struggle toward something new and different overwhelms the film, it becomes less and less human, less and less funny and less and less worth the effort to meet it on its own terms.
50	Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
	The director, Jared Hess, who made "Napoleon Dynamite," a film I admit I didn't get, has made a film I don't even begin to get.
50	New York Post by Lou Lumenick
	Fitfully amusing.
40	Time Out New York by David Fear
	It�??s unfair to blame Hess solely for condescension comedy�??s bad aftertaste--he�??s not the only perpetrator--but his particular brand is the most graceless.
40	The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
	Has little to offer besides unrelenting strangeness.
40	Variety by Peter Debruge
	Napoleon Dynamite seems perfectly well-adjusted (not to mention downright charismatic) compared to homeschooled mama's boy Benjamin Purvis in Gentlemen Broncos, the latest oddball character portrait from one-trick helmer Jared Hess.
38	USA Today by Claudia Puig
	If you didn't know otherwise, you'd swear that Gentlemen Broncos was made by a disaffected high school student �?? and not a particularly talented one.
38	Boston Globe by Ty Burr
	A comedy that can�??t even admit to its own overwhelming sense of disgust.
33	The Onion (A.V. Club) by Sean O'Neal
	Crammed with so much deliberate tackiness that it borders on exhausting self-parody.
30	The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
	Timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing from Gentlemen Broncos.
30	Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
	Satire aside, what the oddball folks here never feel is real, despite the filmmakers' claims of autobiographical parallels.
30	Village Voice by Scott Foundas
	Hess deserves credit, I suppose, for so effectively channeling his inner seven-year-old. Personally, I preferred spending two hours in the company of Spike Jonze's.
30	Chicago Reader by Cliff Doerksen
	A witless whack at sci-fi fanboys.
25	San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
	Setting out to make a cult movie is almost as strange as setting out to make a camp movie. Or setting out to make a movie that's so bad it's good. If you know you're doing it, you're not really doing it.
25	The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey
	There's a lesson behind Gentlemen Broncos , the new film from director Jared Hess: Don't try to mock above your talent level.
20	New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
	Yep, Hess wrote and directed "Dynamite," and here's proof we shouldn't have rewarded him. The hollow "Broncos" is even more cruelly disdainful, designed primarily to scorn the pathetic lives within.
16	Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
	The audience may have bought the act in "Napoleon Dynamite." But this time, the act bombs.
12	Washington Post by John Anderson
	What Michael Bay did for the Hollywood blockbuster with his second "Transformers" movie, Jared Hess has now done for the low-budget indie with Gentlemen Broncos -- namely, stain an entire genre with a sense of soulless calculation.