Gentlemen Broncos

2009

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 20% · 79 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 12264 12.3K

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Plot summary

A teenager attends a fantasy writers' convention where he discovers his idea has been stolen by an established novelist.


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Top cast

Sam Rockwell as Bronco / Brutus
Jemaine Clement as Chevalier
Michael Angarano as Benjamin
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821.03 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
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1 hr 29 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by zardoz-13 10 / 10

Absurdist Hilarity at its Zenith!!!

Jared Hess and wife/producer Jerusha are truly mad geniuses! Hess's third movie after "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Nacho Libre," Gentlemen Broncos" qualifies as insanely hilarious. The challenge of dramatizing the subject of plagiarism would be considerable for anybody, but the Hess's have done an imaginative job of adapting it as an absurdist comedy of errors between two goofy sci-fi writers. Indeed, this trim 90-minute epic possesses an obvious high camp quality in its outlandish depiction of science fiction. Believe me, the narrative in the crazy sci-fi scenes is abysmal, so horribly bad that is emerges as funny. A popular sci-fi author of significant renown, Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement of "HBO's Flight of the Conchords"), has lost his touch. Chevalier's publisher threatens to stop publishing him. At the Cletus Writers Camp, Chevalier plagiarizes a high school student's infantile but original manuscript that he got at a writers camp where he served as the chief spokesman. "Gentlemen Broncos" alternates the scenes of the conniving Chevalier touting his art and our high school protagonist, Benjamin (Michael Angarano of "Empire State"), with their versions of "Yeast Wars." These scenes are entertaining nonsense that resembles something out of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The scene when Chevalier tries to bribe Benjamin at a book signing convention is memorable. When Hess isn't pitting Chevalier against Benjamin, he treats us to sensitive scenes of Benjamin and his deluded mother, Judith (Jennifer Coolidge of "American Pie"), who has dreams of selling a line of women's night garments. A subplot involving a possible romance interest for Benjamin and a wacky filmmaker, perhaps not unlike Hess, is amusing, too. Beware of the lowest-common denominator bowel humor especially projectile vomiting. "Gentleman Broncos" is not for everybody.

Reviewed by FlashCallahan 8 / 10

Country Balls.

I may have misse dthe point with Hess' first two movies. Dynamite in my humble opinion was overblown and highly overrated. Libre just wasn't funny and was seemed to have been hijacked by Black.

So I wasn't looking forward to this film at all, but I give any movie a chance.

The story is simple enough. Boy goes to a sci-fi camp and one of the speakers there, steals his idea.

But the characters here make the whole movie. Most will say that was the point of his first two films, but these characters are a little more human and are quite endearing, even the ones who steal ideas.

Clement is easily the best thing in the whole thing and his Chevalier is at his best when he is advising youngsters on what to call their main protagonist.

The script is very witty, and their is some surreal humour here to be enjoyed, a sort of Monty Python and Vic Reeves hybrid, silly humour, should not be funny, but find yourself laughing nevertheless.

Scenes do not outstay there welcome, and the inclusion of some truly original visual gags make this a highly original piece of work that you are ever likely to see.

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 5 / 10

deliberately weird

Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano) is a quiet awkward teen home-schooled by his mother (Jennifer Coolidge). He has written a sci-fi fantasy novella about Bronco (Sam Rockwell) based on his father. He's befriended by Tabatha Jenkins (Halley Feiffer) and Lonnie Donaho (Héctor Jiménez). Tabatha is the first person to read his book and she loves it. He goes to writing camp Cletus Fair where he meets his idol Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement). Ronald is rather pompous and needs a new book before his publisher drops him. Ronald steals Benjamin's book. Unbeknownst to Ronald, Lonnie buys the rights to Benjamin's book and makes an indie. Ronald claims that Benjamin is the thief.

I like these characters to a certain extent. Weird characters have become a trademark of the Hesses but I always struggle to actually laugh in their movies. This one comes close. I like Angarano who gets better along the way. Tabatha's first scene isn't good because she's kind of callous and oblivious to Benjamin's feelings. Also the Bronco scenes could have tied in with Benjamin and his struggles more. It's a missed opportunity. If Sam Rockwell is suppose to be his father, there is no reason why Jennifer Coolidge could not be the heroine in those scenes. Jemaine Clement could play a villain of the book. The whole book could be a parallel world. I still like Benjamin but almost none of it made me laugh. Tabatha aggressively kissing him after he throws up is a fun scene. That comes closest to being funny.

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