Gentlemen Broncos

Jemaine Clement, Michael Angarano

Directed by Jared Hess

Rating: 2 stars

Gentlemen Broncos is the story of a young science-fiction writer, Benjamin (Michael Angarano), who goes to writer's camp and gets his novel stolen by a famous author (Jemaine Clement). However, the conflict doesn't occur until the end of the movie. Benjamin meets Tabatha and Lonnie on the bus going to writer's camp. Lonnie has his own movie company and produced about 84 movies and trailers. Tabatha reads a little bit of Benjamin's novel, "Yeast Lords" and gets Lonnie to produce the movie. After the first day of filming, Benjamin quits due to Lonnie changing most of the movie into a romance and the movie has its own premier. It's not until the announcement of the movie premier that Chevalier, the famous author who stole Benjamin's story, comes out to the press saying that Lonnie, Tabatha, and Benjamin stole his novel to make into a movie.

Overall, this movie is two star quality. It's corny, cheesy, and has some scenes in it that look bad like a home-made movie. I'll admit, there are some parts of the movie that make you laugh but you're laughing "at it", not "with it". For those who are fans of Napoleon Dynamite or Nacho Libre, then you might like Gentlemen Broncos since the director of this movie also did the other ones mentioned. Personally, I was never a Napoleon Dynamite fan. It was stupid and so was Gentlemen Broncos. I do applaud that Jemaine Clement was cast in this movie because he makes a good bad guy but unfortunately, this movie was a flop.

First of all, "Yeast Lords"?? That is the title of the science-fiction novel Benjamin wrote. Even though his novel is supposed to be an ode to the dad who died when he was young, the scenes we get to see from the story are lame. Cyclops enemies and riding mechanical Bucks that can shoot at you, not that great to watch. Second, this movie is gross. Just look at Lonnie's (Héctor Jiménez) mouth, it's huge and over-exaggerated. Plus, a pooing snake and a hasty kiss after puking his (Benjamin's) guts out with chunks still around his lips- why would you put that in there?

The only good thing about this movie is that it was 90 minutes long.