BE KIND REWIND
Headline: ** Homemade Movies for the Masses **Title: BE KIND REWIND
Quality: * * * Acceptability: -1
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LL
Violence: V
Sex: S
Nudity: None
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: February 22, 2008
TIME: 101 minutes
STARRING: Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, and Melonie Diaz
DIRECTOR: Michel Gondry
PRODUCERS: Georges Bermann and Julie Fong
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Toby Emmerich and Guy Stodel
WRITER: Michel Gondry
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: New Line Cinema
CONTENT: (Pa, B, C, Ho, LL, V, S, MM) Light mixed worldview with some immoral pagan elements, some endearing morally uplifting elements and light positive Christian references (such as a Christian pastor is a minor character and references are made to a historical figure's Christian clergy father), but with no particularly strong moral or theological premise, plus man mentions the word "homosexual" when he fears getting too close to a homeless man that he and his friend have dressed up to play the femme fatal in RUSH HOUR 2, so they decide to use a real woman instead; 13 obscenities (including a few "s" and "h" words), one strong profanity, two light exclamatory profanities, implied vomiting twice, man says "What the duck" a few times, and it is implied that magnetized man is urinating in the streets and movie cuts to a metallic yellowish liquid flowing down the gutter with a few metal parts from cars and a metal spoon going with it; light comic violence with no blood such as firecrackers attached to homemade toy weapons pretend to shoot people in homemade movies, people pretend to be shot dead, comic falling, man gets electrocuted and this causes him to be magnetized, pretend fighting; no depicted sex but three men talk briefly about the idea of being with women and a vulgar term is used for male anatomy, man says a joke about another man "flying solo" (or some phrase like that) to imply auto-eroticism, and lightly implied pretend sex when couple acting in a homemade movie are under a blanket making the blanket move around quickly and when woman in a car in a long-distance shot lifts up her legs, but nothing graphic shown; no nudity; no alcohol; no smoking; and, miscellaneous immoral elements such as lying, deceit, an excuse is made for lying about the past, two young men make low budget special effects of ghosts for their homemade remake of GHOSTBUSTERS, and people use movie fantasy to escape from the hard facts of their rundown city.
GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: BE KIND REWIND stars Jack Black as a goofy young man who helps his friend make short homemade versions of Hollywood movies after he unintentionally erases all the videotapes at the rundown video store where his friend works. The movie has some hilarious and even heartwarming moments, but there is some foul language and a few sexual references, most of which are relatively light.
IN BRIEF:
BE KIND REWIND stars Jack Black as Jerry, a paranoid young man who lives in a rundown neighborhood in Passaic, New Jersey. Jerry has befriended Mike, a young black man working in a decrepit video store owned by the elderly Mr. Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher leaves Mike in charge for a couple weeks so he can spy on what the big chain DVD stores are doing. Jerry has become magnetized, however, after trying to sabotage the electric company. He inadvertently erases all the videotapes Mr. Fletcher rents. To satisfy an older female customer checking up on Mike for Mr. Fletcher, they make a homemade 20-minute version of GHOSTBUSTERS. The people in the neighborhood love the goofy remake and demand more homemade versions of their favorite films.
BE KIND REWIND is not a big budget Hollywood comedy like Jack Black's previous movies, but it does have some hilarious, endearing moments. The movie includes some infrequent negative content, however, including some foul language, two light sexual references and one vulgar scene about being with women. Also, Mike has a habit of euphemistically saying "What the duck?" sometimes. Thus, MOVIEGUIDEŽ advises caution, especially for pre-teens.
