Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043121470
Format: Color
Item Dimensions: Array
Label: New Line Home Video
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
MPN: TRNDN38873D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-06-17
Running Time: 102
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

Experience the antics of two outcasts as they attempt to save a local video store. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2008 Starring: Jack Black Danny Glover Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Michel Gondry
A daffy, adorable, and very funny celebration of DIY spirit, Be Kind Rewind stars Mos Def (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) as Mike, a clerk at a failing video store in a rundown New Jersey neighborhood. When his friend Jerry (Jack Black), who's been magnetized in a power station accident, wipes all of the videotapes blank, the two of them decide to recreate the movies themselves rather than face the store's owner (Danny Glover). The pure charm of Be Kind Rewind can't be captured in that spare plot synopsis. The blend of the movie's great cast (which also includes Mia Farrow, Melonie Diaz of American Son, and Sigourney Weaver) and pitch-perfect writing and direction from writer-director Michel Gondry (director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, writer-director of The Science of Sleep) culminates in a truly delightful movie--sweet without being saccharine, richly comic without irony or sarcasm (which, given the presence of Black, is surprising), sentimental without losing sight of the hard edges of life. Mos Def turns in a standout performance, deeply sympathetic without a moment of grandstanding. An absolutely winning film. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Rating:
Summary: Lovable indie film celebrates innovation, artistic freedom, and the neighborhood
Comment: Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"} wrote and directed this little slice of indie-film magic, starring Mos Def, Jack Black, and Danny Glover (among others). A mere plot summary does not do justice to the quirky charm that makes this movie so darn fun - it has to be experienced.

But this is a review, so here goes nothing. Elroy Fletcher (Glover) runs a run-down video store on a run-down block of run-down Passaic, New Jersey. (OK - that last bit is redundant.) He goes on a scouting mission to modernize his store, leaving Mike (Def) in charge, with one basic rule: don't let Jerry (Black) in the store. Mike can't figure out the message at first, but he already kinda knows that Jerry never had screws in the first place, much less screws that are loose.

Jerry still manages to get into the store after having magnetized himself in a raid on a local power plant. The details of this "raid" shouldn't be spoiled, but I will say that it involves the most brilliant set of urban camouflage ever used. Jerry demagnetizes all the tapes, and in order to keep their few customers happy, Jerry and Mike begin filming their own versions of "Driving Miss Daisy," "King Kong," "Rush Hour 2," etc. The movies are marketed as special versions that have been "Sweded," and the customers go bonkers for them.

So what was first a bizarre character study gradually evolves into a paean to the magic of the movies. The movies help us create our own little truth, even though every movie involves a thousand lies. Who cares if a certain musician wasn't born in Passaic? If there's a movie about the musician and it says he's from Passaic, that's all that matters.

All the actors play their parts marvelously, with a lot of charm. Even Black, who has enough zany energy to overwhelm a movie like this, works well within the ensemble. I love Jack Black, but a lot of his movies ("School of Rock") work because the other actors get out of his way. Here, the other actors work in balance with Black and the result is a movie that stars Jack Black but isn't a "Jack Black movie."

Innovative camera work and a touching script make "Be Kind Rewind" one of the best feel-good movies from the last year, and over time this movie could evolve, a la "Shawshank Redemption," into a modern classic. I only give it four stars now because I think it might even be better on repeated viewings, at which time I will amend this review. Watch this movie.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A surprise film
Comment: I saw this film in the theater on a whim and was simply amazed. While the film functions quite well as a simple comedy, scholars of film will see many homages to older films and directors. Be Kind, Rewind is a cinematic celebration of the magic of cinema and will be enjoyed by any film fan. If you love film see this movie.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Okay movie, but beware the Hollywood Propaganda
Comment: This is an entertaining, albeit overlong, film. And nowhere near the classic that was Jack Black's previous NACHO LIBRE.

Others have reviewed the plot, so I'll focus on a bit of Big Studio Hollywood propaganda in this film.

The characters in BE KIND, REWIND "reenact" studio films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ghostbusters. Then studio lawyers come and bust them for "copyright infringement."

The end credits even say: "Reenactment Rights copyright and licesed from Ghostbusters, etc."

HUH? "Reenactment rights"? The characters in this film were in effect creating PARODIES. Parodies are protected by Fair Use. What these characters did was perfectly legal; no permission needed from the Big Studios.

Thus, the film lied on that point. The Big Studio lawyer characters should have been proven wrong in the film. But Big Studios don't want to release films that inform viewers about their legal rights to create parodies.

BE KIND, REWIND is still entertaining, though it could have been funnier. It felt long. But I liked the cast, and it had heart. It was also nice to see it filmed in Passaic NJ, not a town that's been much filmed.

Too bad the Big Studio lawyer characters weren't shown to be legally wrong.

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Summary: Be Kind Rewind - Blu-ray Info
Comment: Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
VC-1 BD-25
Average video bit rate: 16.00 Mbps
Running time: 1:41:43 (h:m:s)
Movie size: 16,81 GB
Disc size: 23,06 GB
DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English

Subtitles: English SDH / Spanish

#The Making of Be Kind Rewind (SD - 33 minutes)
#Booker T and The Michel Gondry (SD - 7 minutes)
#A Conversation with Jack Black and Michel Gondry (SD - 6 minutes)
#Fats Waller Short Film (SD - 12 minutes)
#A Tribute to Fats Waller: LIVE! (SD - 6 minutes)
#Jack Black and Mos Def Improvise Songs (SD - 5 minutes)
#Fats Waller Short Film (SD - 12 minutes)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: different from what i thought it would be
Comment: the trailer makes this movie look like a jake black free for all comedy. i am not a big fan of j. black but i was looking for a stupid movie to enjoy while a little drunk. i really enjoy mos def's character in 16 blocks so i was happy to see him in something different. my problem with this movie is that its actually a warm felt movie with a different plot and very moving performances. it was a good movie just different from what the trailer looks like

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