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1. • • Whimsy (n.): Playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor. Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” is whimsy with a capital W. No, it’s WHIMSY in all caps.
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   Is Be Kind Rewind whimsy?

   • Whimsy (n.): Playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor. Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” is whimsy with a capital W. No, it’s WHIMSY in all caps. Make that all-caps italic boldface. Oh, never mind. I’m getting too whimsical. Maybe Gondry does, too. You’ll have to decide for yourself.

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   What is the movie 'Be Kind Rewind' about?

   • Michel Gondry’s 'Be Kind Rewind' (2008) is about an urban community coming together around the films made available at its locally owned video store after its employees begin to produce their own versions of rental titles to replace their demagnetized inventory.

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   Is 'Be Kind Rewind' a DVD?

   • This is “Be Kind Rewind,” a store that rents a skimpy selection of VHS tapes. Not a DVD in sight. It’s owned by Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover), who has convinced himself the store was the birthplace of Fats Waller (identified only as “some old-time jazz musician” on one Web site, which has plainly never heard of him).

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   Is Boyz n the hood a whimsy movie?

   • Once upon a time there were things called ‘video stores’… Two pals (Jack Black, left, and Mos Def) go retro to re-enact scenes from classic movies, including Boyz N the Hood. Whimsy (n.): Playfully quaint or fanciful behavior or humor. Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” is whimsy with a capital W. No, it’s WHIMSY in all caps.

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   Where does Be Kind Rewind take place?

   • This is a movie that takes place in no possible world, which may be a shame, if not for the movie, then for possible worlds. The place: Passaic, N.J. On a street corner stands a shop so shabby that only an art director could have designed it. This is “Be Kind Rewind,” a store that rents a skimpy selection of VHS tapes. Not a DVD in sight.

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3. www.today.com › popculture › be-kind-rewind‘Be Kind Rewind’: Sweetness and blight - TODAY

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   Feb 19, 2008 · And then there’s bad whimsy, which brings us to “Be Kind Rewind.” Bad whimsy has all the great art direction and nutty plot setups, but they all get shoehorned into a real-world context,...

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5. reverseshot.org › reviews › entryReviews - Reverse Shot

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   Be Kind Rewind is similarly sunny and uncomplicated. Without a jaded bone in its body, it offers cornball homilies about communal joy and movie love without a hint of a wink—and pulls it off for the most part.

6. www.timeout.com › movies › be-kind-rewindBe Kind Rewind 2008, directed by Michel Gondry | Film review

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   Feb 18, 2008 · French celluloid sorcerer Michel Gondry delivers his most playful, accessible and subtextually sparkling slice of bespoke whimsy to date in the follow-up to his.

7. editorial.rottentomatoes.com › article › michelMichel Gondry on Be Kind Rewind - Rotten Tomatoes

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   Feb 20, 2008 · Michel Gondry: This is the problem with digital. Melonie Diaz, Jack Black, and Mos Def work the video counter in Be Kind Rewind. Instantly I devolve into mild hysterics. Gondry, the man famous...

8. www.npr.org › 2008/02/21 › 19168319'Be Kind, Rewind' - NPR

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   Feb 21, 2008 · But writer-director Michel Gondry lets the air out of it pretty quickly with a combination of over-strenuous whimsy and a gee-whiz plotline that has the store's clientele getting into the act in...

9. exclaim.ca › film › articleBe Kind Rewind │ Exclaim!

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   Feb 20, 2008 · Yet that whimsy, left unfettered in a narrative form, can overtake a film like a diabetic attack in a candy store, and despite a good premise and some charming ideas, that s what happens with Be...