I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars. Despite some good intentions and Black's and Def's chemistry and perfomances 'Be Kind Rewind' showcases how bad it is to remake certain films when on the same time it's humor never lands and the overall pacing is terrible. Overall a disappointing film that doesn't hold up that well as i remembered. (4.5/10)

Jack Black and Mos Def play the two main leads in this bizarre comedy that is definitely heaping piles of quantity over any kind of quality.So the story goes that Mike (Def) is a worker in a little VHS rental corner store, owned by Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover). After Mr. Fletcher leaves the store in Mike's hands for the duration of his trip to a memorial, Mike's friend Jerry (Black) wanders in and promptly erases all the tapes due to having become magnetized in a power plant accident. Because why not. And now they're in a jam because people still have to be able to rent the tapes, the store being in financial troubles as it is. The solution? Film your own zero-budget replicas of course.Okay, that doesn't sound that bad. It could work. The problem I have with this film is that it doesn't know how to focus on few key things. Instead it tries to throw everything and the kitchen sink at us and hopes that something sticks. First we have the buddy comedy between two friends, then we have the weird magnet parahuman ability Jerry acquires (which is barely addressed after the first scene), the financial troubles of the store, the circumstances of the poor New Jersey neighbourhood, the state of the VHS versus DVD, and last but not least this weird fixation the film has with this dead real- life jazz musician Fats Wallers, which ends up stealing the whole film towards the end with no explanation given for the weird shift in focus nor mood.And sure, there are comedies that have no focus, wandering around freely, while still managing to work quite well. Monty Python comes to mind. But with those you usually have something of an overarching plot, which is then littered with bizarre details. The story of King Arthur. The story of not-Jesus. This movie could be said to be about saving the store through bizarre events, but it's not immediately apparent from the start and the ending would argue that it's about quite something else. Plus with Monty Python the details are so far out of the left field that you don't even try to make any kind of sense out of them. Here the movie teeters just on the edge of almost having internal logic, but simply failing at it. Which is much more frustrating.In the end Be Kind Rewind didn't leave much of an impression with me. Black and Def had some funny moments, but the overall structure was too chaotic for my tastes and the story wasn't all that interesting. Worth a watch if you're a die-hard fan of Black, otherwise there are better movies out there.

Be Kind Rewind is a movie about movies more than any I've seen. It discusses films we've familiar with, films we've seen, films we love or hate, calling them by name explicitly and recreating scenes from them. This feels pretty unique already, but that's only the beginning. The whole concept of Be Kind Rewind is completely ludicrous, and that's the genius of it.The main characters, and pretty much all the characters with the possible exception of the old and wise Mr. Fletcher, are very silly people, talking and doing nonsense, but they have good hearts and their difficult situation makes viewers squirm with empathy even though the characters pretty much brought it on themselves.There are underlying themes of the inevitability of progress and the disappearing of the good old times, when community meant something. This is strongly symbolized by the rise of DVDs and the downfall of VHS tapes.

After a long week at work, I needed something to wind down to. I sat on my couch with some friends as we reminisced some of our childhood movies(in parody). To be honest, the parodies were a small part of the movie, but their super-dumb ideas somehow 'working-out' in favor of our heroes, added to the hilarity.Don't expect anything witty..this movie is pure slapstick. If you like movies like 'Dumb & Dumber' or 'Tommy Boy', you will enjoy this (all though Be Kind Rewind may not be as epic/timeless as those). Also, a word of caution..I know that not everyone can take Jack Black's comedy. If you are one of them, proceed at your own risk ;)