• Starring: Jemaine Clement, Michael Angarano
  • Summary: Benjamin, home-schooled by his eccentric mother, is a lovable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious 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. (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 21
  2. Negative: 13 out of 21
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
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    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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
  1. If this film was an animal it would be a majestic eagle. It tickled me in all the right places and bought me tampons from stores I simply would not expect. 10/10 Expand
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  2. I can't believe how harshly this movie was panned by critics when it came out. This movie is clever, original, and funny. It gets better on subsequent viewings when you start to really notice little things like a candy dish full of bullets or the attire of sci fi fans waiting in line for a book signing. This is the perfect movie to watch when you want to watch a movie and don't know what you are in the mood for. Expand
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  3. Imitation is the sincerest form a flattery. It is apparent that the Hess siblings desiderated to fancy their own works with their newest film Gentlemen Broncos. To qualify, Gentlemen Broncos utilizes the same exact formula of a societal misfit used in both Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite. While those two comedic movies were both equally unique and humorous, Broncos feels stale, farcical, and ultimately, a waste of my time. Gentlemen Broncos is a story of Benjamin(Michael Angarano), a home-schooled misfit, who inspires to become a prominent science fiction writer. Benjamin attends a writing workshop headed by Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), his paragon of an author, who steals his story leaving the characters in tangles of plagiarism and adaptation rights. As a tenacious fan of Hess’s freshman work, Napoleon Dynamite, I ignored the harsh reviews of Broncos, thinking that the reviewers did not appreciate the dry humor that the Hess brothers have popularized. To my dismay, everything negative said about the film was absolutely correct. From the introduction to Benjamin’s bizarre acquaintances, everything seemed as if it was horrible replica of Napoleon Dynamite. Contrarily, Gentleman Broncos used Napoleon’s offbeat aspects in all of the wrong ways. The fantasy sequences, Benjamin’s onscreen stories, were so far-out and grotesque, I found myself skipping these images of “go-nads” and “cyclops.” Another adverse aspect was that the humor throughout the movie was so forced that it took away all of the genius comedic elements that Nacho Libre and Dynamite used brilliantly. Finally there were so many unnecessary moments of puking and physical humor that it seemed that the majority of the movie was crafted by Hess’s immature inner-child. The only redeeming aspect of the movie was Jemaine’s Clement’s performance. He successfully strays away from his character in HBO’s Flight Of The Conchords, and makes a ridiculously humorous character that deserves a film with more quality. Overall, Gentlemen Broncos created so much disappointment that I’ll probably never give Hess another chance. The Napoleon formula has lost all of its brilliance, and persistently using it exposes an untalented director with no more originality. Expand
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