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"Gentlemen Broncos" is a film for anyone who has ever created something and had it stolen and copied. It is a film for all geeks. It is a film
that will have you laughing out loud at the characters and the cheesy way it is told. "Gentlemen Broncos" is Jared Hess' ("Napolean Dynamite") story of a nerdy kid who writes stupid sci-fi manuscripts that in anyone's universe
are pathetic. BUT we all know folks who write these things who think there are great. If you don't believe, just look on the shelves of your local bookseller and you'll
see thousands of sci-fi books that are only amusing to sci-fi geeks. The film opens with Benjamin (Michael Angarano) leaving for a writing camp to which his mom is treating him. He is joined by other
geeks on a shabby school bus and quickly learns he is underfunded. In his grasp however, is i his prize script "The Yeast Wars". |
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Presiding over the camp is a sci-fi writer named Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) who hasn't had a hit in a while and is actually being forced by
his publisher to do this or else! It is hopeful that he might find some talent in the group. Chevalier is full of himself much like Crusty the Clown from the Simpsons. His chief piece of advice to the group is to change the name of their characters
to more interesting names. A name, according to him< automatically becomes better by adding -anius, or -alonious or other hilarious suffixes. He invites the group to enter their scripts for consideration but, again thinks they are all morons. Until he reads "Yeast Wars". Needing a hit, he decides to plagiarize Benjamin's
manuscript by changing the name of the lead character to Brutus. Meanwhile Benjamin is offered the chance to have his work made into a movie by a couple of amateur videographers named Tabatha (Halley Feiffer) and
Lonnie Danaho (Hector Jimenez) who comes off as an exaggerated lemon sucker. |
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Through it all is Benjamin's devoted mom Judith who makes
less than sexy nightgowns. "Gentlemen Broncos" is hilarious. Period. As with most films referring to geeks, there are tons of sexual references including laser shooting breasts. The movie progresses in and some predictable
and some unpredictable manner. It could have stayed true to "Back to the
Future" but didn't. The truly hilarious moments are not from Efron or Perry
but from Lennon who never stops his fantastical nerdishness. "Gentlemen Broncos" is another Fox Searchlight film that makes up for the less than expected "Amelia" and harkens
back to the daring independents we are accustomed to seeing from them! --GEOFFREY BURTON
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