Gentlemen Broncos (2009)

Good concept, poorly executed.

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Don't listen to the negative reviews

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Jared and Jerusha Hess may not have created a financial success but Gentlemen Broncos is without a doubt one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. It is so quirky and weird I can completely understand why others may not enjoy it. Michael Angarano, Jemaine Clement, Jennifer Coolidge, and Sam Rockwell all deliver stellar performances and are backed up by Halley Feiffer and Héctor Jiménez who really knocked it out of the park.Its not Flight of the Concords or Napoleon Dynamite; Gentlemen Bronco's really shines as a film like nothing else these silver screen has seen before.

i'm absolutely not a fan of 21st century culture. but 1 of the few movies that i like is "napoleon dynamite". this movie is from the same director. so i thought that it was going to be funny. it isn't. it is over-saturated with sarcasm. i like sarcasm. but this movie is >95% sarcasm. and, it got annoying within 10 minutes. if i didn't know that movie was written by Jared and Jerusha Hess, i would guess that it was written by mean-spirited middle school children. when i was growing up, i liked the novel "dune" by frank Hebert. i liked the movie, too. "yeast lords" is obviously making fun of "dune". Jared and jerusha Hess will never come close to making anything as good as "dune". and they know it. so, they just a made cheap, mean-spirited movie such as this.

This film is a crime. And EVERY SINGLE ONE of those involved in the production should be arrested as accessories for not even attempting to halt production from day one.This absolute train wreck, this abomination, will make you question that other list of movies you've seen and said "That was the worst movie I've ever seen!" You ain't seen nothing until you've seen Gentlemen Broncos.The movie is painful, sad and disgusting – and I'm not even referring to the obvious efforts to gross us out, like kissing and swallowing someone else's puke. What makes this movie stand out from other disasters, like The Room, was the fact it was, unbelievably, competently shot. These buffoons should've known better.And ironically, the dreadful movie/book/fantasies within this movie, which keep getting praised by the characters are not as bad as the actual movie as a whole. Oh, sure, the "Yeast Infection" book the film revolves around and its (100-feet below any of the MST3k short's standards) fantasy shots are obviously inept and enormously miss the comedic mark, and still…they're a welcome distraction for the terrifying sight of the rest of the film.From the appalling dialogue to the endless misfires they want you to believe is comedy to the absolutely repulsive secondary characters – what was with Large-Mouthed Lonnie? I'd rather stare at feces longer – this movie had utterly nothing going for it. The slight and only bright spot was actor Michael Angarano. He screamed BETTER than this, but sadly, he couldn't elevate one speck of this catastrophe.The plot's all over the place, but suffice to say: Teenager writes a horrendous and yet "highly praised" story that appeared to be written by someone 10-15 years younger, and one failing famous writer steals it, while Large-Mouth butchers it for a cheap production. The poster's tagline is "From the director of…Napoleon Dynamite" and from the looks of it, this story could have, in fact, come from the mind of that Napoleon character, albeit on his worst day of creativity.Oh, there's a more… sadly a lot more going on including 1/100th the production value of the worst of the Star Trek episodes from the 1960s, but nothing that equates a SEE IT because of that character or that scene. Even the great music was out of place – and Cher, you should be ashamed of yourself!On a side note, karma really sucks. I must really have p*ssed off my friend – you know who you are! – who "recommended" this to me. I'm inches from purchasing a plane ticket for two states over, taking a taxi to his residence and upon him answering the door – he'll get a slap across the face. That's it. No words. Following the deserved attack, I'll just turn around and head back to the airport.

When Benjamin (an aspiring young science fiction author) attends a writers' workshop, his latest work is quickly lifted and re-imagined by two of his fellow campers. One, an obnoxious small-scale filmmaker, does so with the creator's blessing while the other, an established novelist, claims the work as his own. Written and directed by Jared Hess, also responsible for Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, this eccentric comedy lands somewhere in between the hypnotic success of the former and the disappointing shortfalls of the latter. The opening act is a real riot, with quirky, colorful characters stepping out of the wallpaper and amazing over- the-top visualizations of Benjamin's work that treat his hokey material with unmasked deference. But while those big screen interpretations of his hilariously awful novel bring the goods throughout the film (with competing visions from the two other writers' interpretations raising the bar) the primary storyline doesn't keep pace. The awkward, passionately inept cast doesn't quite have the charms of Napoleon or Pedro, (with the exception of Jermaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords, who's outstanding as selfish sci-fi plagiarist Ronald Chevalier) and there's a notable lack of a top-of-the-mountain moment that was so present in Dynamite's dance scene. It's a spiritual successor that had potential, but never completely rises to the moment.