6/10
OK, I love (director) Gondry's work. Regular readers will know of course that Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind was the number 9 movie in my Empire Poll form. However, it was with some trepidation that I heard Jack Black and Mos Def were the stars of his latest film, and that it was a much more commercial and (shudder) zany picture.
Simply put, it's not really in the same league as his earlier work. The plot tells of a video store owner's friends who try and save the store from demolition by renting low budget "sweded" remakes of movies to the locals after Jack Black's character wipes them all.
The remakes are the best thing about the movie and all the other parts just can't live up to the standard set by the hilarious retreads of Robocop, Ghostbusters and especially Rush Hour 2. In particular as the film approaches its end a hackneyed romanticism creeps in, and the citizenry band together to make a big movie based around the life of local hero Fats Waller. This particular sequence is bordering on Kids From Fame levels of sugary sweetness and the film never really recovers its hilarious knockabout tone.
It'll have to go down as a missed opportunity.
A
Monday, November 3, 2008
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