Be Kind Rewind

When a bumbling movie lover becomes magnetized while attempting to sabotage a local power plant and accidentally erases all of the videotapes in the small video store where his best friend works, the pair attempt to keep the store's loyal customer base by remaking as many of the top-renting movies ...more

Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind is both sweet and inventive, but to say that it lives up to the expectations laid down by his previous works like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind would probably be going just a tad too far. The zany premise is that Mike (Mos Def) has been left in charge of the video store owned by his boss and quasi surrogate father (it's unclear), Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover), while he goes out of town. Upon the venerable man's departure, Mike's friend Jerry (Jack Black) ...more