2.0
out of 100
Metascore®Generally unfavorable reviews Based on a weighted average of all critic review scores.
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The director, Jared Hess, who made "Napoleon Dynamite," a film I admit I didn't get, has made a film I don't even begin to get.
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Napoleon Dynamite seems perfectly well-adjusted (not to mention downright charismatic) compared to homeschooled mama's boy Benjamin Purvis in Gentlemen Broncos, the latest oddball character portrait from one-trick helmer Jared Hess.
Has little to offer besides unrelenting strangeness.
If you didn't know otherwise, you'd swear that Gentlemen Broncos was made by a disaffected high school student and not a particularly talented one.
Satire aside, what the oddball folks here never feel is real, despite the filmmakers' claims of autobiographical parallels.
Timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing from Gentlemen Broncos.
The audience may have bought the act in "Napoleon Dynamite." But this time, the act bombs.
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A quirky failure-onius of kitschy fantasy fiction
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Even dumber than that dang Dynamite.
