Rewind
Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia
Farrow, Melonie Diaz
Director
Michael Gondry
Premise
Two record store clerks have to reenact all
of the movies in their store because a
magnetic wave has wiped all of the
information off of the films. Otherwise, the
small store goes out of business.
/ Black Star fan club!"
being a quirky, enjoyable comedy that requires no knowledge of classics to enjoy. It's a
love ode to movies, saying that anyone can make them and that people respond to movies
better when they feel included somehow. A lot of it makes no sense but that is part of its
charm. Gondry shakes the foundation of how movies are made with this, saying we should
all take a look at everything that has been done and everything that will be done in the
future. The director somehow does this without saying that the golden age of movies is
over or that movies done these days can't be as good. Of course this is all more subtle
than it seems and it is all pretty funny to boot. VHS should be remembered as a medium,
or should it? Maybe the message is that in order to move on, we must always remember
where we came from. I was surprised by how original this all was, and it's a much better
movie than Science of Sleep was overall (probably because it is not a rehash of an idea
that did not need rehashing, Eternal Sunshine).
Plot/Originality - 93
Acting/Characters - 74
Dialouge/Screenplay - 80
Effects/Camerawork - 89