Dir: Jared Hess
2009
****
I think people need to cut Jared Hess some slack. He could have been lazy and made Napoleon Dynamite 2 and 3 and he would have been guaranteed success. Nacho Libre was good but the only thing stopping it from being as good was Jack Black. Gentlemen Broncos is oddball humour at its most epic. It had the right balance of quirky set-pieces, subplots and characters and the script was great. The cast was strong with Michael Angarano playing our Protagonist perfectly while surrounded by great character performances by Jennifer Coolidge, Jemaine Clement, Mike White, Sam Rockwell and Hector Jimenez. It's both clever and silly, a breath of fresh air among the many big budget sci-fi films of late. It saddens me when a film so unique is faulted for its originality.
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