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.

Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) is a quiet awkward teen home-schooled by his mother (Jennifer Coolidge). He has written a sci-fi fantasy novella about Bronco (Sam Rockwell) based on his father. He's befriended by Tabatha Jenkins (Halley Feiffer) and Lonnie Donaho (Héctor Jiménez). Tabatha is the first person to read his book and she loves it. He goes to writing camp Cletus Fair where he meets his idol Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement). Ronald is rather pompous and needs a new book before his publisher drops him. Ronald steals Benjamin's book. Unbeknownst to Ronald, Lonnie buys the rights to Benjamin's book and makes an indie. Ronald claims that Benjamin is the thief.I like these characters to a certain extent. Weird characters have become a trademark of the Hesses but I always struggle to actually laugh in their movies. This one comes close. I like Angarano who gets better along the way. Tabatha's first scene isn't good because she's kind of callous and oblivious to Benjamin's feelings. Also the Bronco scenes could have tied in with Benjamin and his struggles more. It's a missed opportunity. If Sam Rockwell is suppose to be his father, there is no reason why Jennifer Coolidge could not be the heroine in those scenes. Jemaine Clement could play a villain of the book. The whole book could be a parallel world. I still like Benjamin but almost none of it made me laugh. Tabatha aggressively kissing him after he throws up is a fun scene. That comes closest to being funny.

Jared Hess and wife/producer Jerusha are truly mad geniuses! Hess's third movie after "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre," Gentlemen Broncos" qualifies as insanely hilarious. The challenge of dramatizing the subject of plagiarism would be considerable for anybody, but the Hess's have done an imaginative job of adapting it as an absurdist comedy of errors between two goofy sci-fi writers. Indeed, this trim 90-minute epic possesses an obvious high camp quality in its outlandish depiction of science fiction. Believe me, the narrative in the crazy sci-fi scenes is abysmal, so horribly bad that is emerges as funny. A popular sci-fi author of significant renown, Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement of "HBO's Flight of the Conchords"), has lost his touch. Chevalier's publisher threatens to stop publishing him. At the Cletus Writers Camp, Chevalier plagiarizes a high school student's infantile but original manuscript that he got at a writers camp where he served as the chief spokesman. "Gentlemen Broncos" alternates the scenes of the conniving Chevalier touting his art and our high school protagonist, Benjamin (Michael Angarano of "Empire State"), with their versions of "Yeast Wars." These scenes are entertaining nonsense that resembles something out of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The scene when Chevalier tries to bribe Benjamin at a book signing convention is memorable. When Hess isn't pitting Chevalier against Benjamin, he treats us to sensitive scenes of Benjamin and his deluded mother, Judith (Jennifer Coolidge of "American Pie"), who has dreams of selling a line of women's night garments. A subplot involving a possible romance interest for Benjamin and a wacky filmmaker, perhaps not unlike Hess, is amusing, too. Beware of the lowest-common denominator bowel humor especially projectile vomiting. "Gentleman Broncos" is not for everybody.

I can only think that the reviewers on this site have lost their sense of humour, are addicted to Hollywood pap, can only watch 'celebrity actors' who's lives are smeared over the pages of magazines in supermarket racks, are too up themselves and their conformist notions to actually watch and enjoy film, have forgotten the sense of wonder that the ordinary can have.... They need action, explosions, USA as the saviour of mankind (in various disguises), a dose of soft pornography inserted into every plot, men with enormous drug induced muscles, women with enormous plastic breasts, cute children, squealing squeaky clean teenagers, immaculate settings, and an escape from the real world. This had to be ten lines to say "this film will not be liked by the kind of person who would probably go to see 'Yeast Lords'starring Arnold.