Jared Hess's works are all very good with an abundance of great scenes and characters, and indeed excellent casting. Whereas 'Masterminds' and 'Nacho Libre' didn't quite match up to the refreshing humour and stand alone style of 'Napoleon Dynamite', this film definitely comes closer. Michael Angarano and Jermaine Clement are really perfect for these roles, and for this director. Like much of his work, there is a certain feel throughout where Hess manages to produce more than just the slapstick hits, surreal situations, humourous observations or joke punchlines. Somehow he creates his own universe successfully incorporating all of these elements.Very happily this is more of the same from Jared & Jerusha
... View MoreI get that it might not be everyone's cup of tea but my wife and I found it laugh out loud funny!
... View MoreJared 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.
... View Moremy little brother could've done better movie than this, completely non sense... not B grade move, not C grade move not even D... i'd call this a F movie, F for Fail. I started watching the movie and right on the first 10 minutes i noticed it was going to be a bad movie... should have listen to my intuition, turned out to be a lot worst than i imagine, i'm glad that i didn't pay for this, it was showing on TV, but i was amused how a pay TV channel would subject their viewer for some dodgy movie like this, specially on the premium movies channel. So if it's raining outside, you have a broken leg, nothing else to do, and you want to waste a few minutes of your life, don't watch this movie, go have a nap, or maybe watch a movie that you've already seen and like it a lot.
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