VHYes

Name: VHYes
Genre: Comedy
Released: January 12, 2020
Duration: 72 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Charlyne Yi, Courtney Pauroso, Jaron Adams, John Gemberling, Kerri Kenney

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Oscilloscope | Release Date: January 12, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Charlyne Yi, Courtney Pauroso, Jaron Adams, John Gemberling, Kerri Kenney, Mark Proksch, Mason McNulty, Rahm Braslaw, Roy Abramsohn, Thomas Lennon

Summary: A bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler time, when twelve-year-old Ralph mistakenly records home videos and his favorite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape. The result is a nostalgic wave of home shopping clips, censored pornography, and nefarious true-crime tales that threaten to unkindlyA bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler time, when twelve-year-old Ralph mistakenly records home videos and his favorite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape. The result is a nostalgic wave of home shopping clips, censored pornography, and nefarious true-crime tales that threaten to unkindly rewind Ralph’s reality. [Oscilloscope]… Expand

Director: Jack Henry Robbins

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 72 min

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Lorry Kikta

Jan 20, 2020

Check out VHYES if you want to see the most original film to come out in ages. Read full review

Polygon Karen Han

Jan 17, 2020

The strangeness of the material isn’t VHYES’ primary attraction; it’s the atypical mode of storytelling and sense of sincerity. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Jan 15, 2020

Think of the film as an extended cousin of Too Many Cooks, where parody gives way to weirdness, which gives way to surrealism, which gives way to genuine horror by the end. Bonkers as the combination sounds, and it is unimpeachably bonkers, the effect of their marriage is hypnotic. Read full review

The Film Stage C.J. Prince

Jan 15, 2020

A lot of the times the jokes feel reliant on the video format and its limitations, as if the video tracking and purposefully bad production qualities can fill the gap between ideas and execution. Instead, the gap gets filled with memories of shows and movies that do a better job at the same thing. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Jan 16, 2020

Unfortunately, this handheld coming-of-age story is frequently interrupted by variably convincing stretches of channel surfing, as though someone recorded over much of the former with the latter. And even with pros like Charlyne Yi and Kerri Kenney lending their deadpan chops, real weird TV is funnier. Weirder, too. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Jan 18, 2020

The best thing the film has going for it is editor Avner Shiloah’s scrambled channel-surfing assembly, which seldom sticks with any bit long enough for it to get too stale. Still, VHYes feels overextended even at the 66 slim minutes it takes to reach the final credits. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Jan 17, 2020

I didn't see what was funny about the shallow wackiness of VHYes. Read full review

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defdog99

Jan 21, 2020

First half was nostalgic with all of the legit hair and clothes. It was 1987! The 2nd half ran out of steam and became a mishmash. The movie is definitely on the Tim-and-Eric side of comedy. Three good laugh-out-loud laughs, so it made the $5 ticket worth it. There should have been someFirst half was nostalgic with all of the legit hair and clothes. It was 1987! The 2nd half ran out of steam and became a mishmash. The movie is definitely on the Tim-and-Eric side of comedy. Three good laugh-out-loud laughs, so it made the $5 ticket worth it. There should have been some nudity in this like all movies in the 1980s had. 12 year old boys recording after-hours cable!… Expand

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