Since 2004's leftfield hit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, former pop video director Gondry has spun around the theme of the power and fallibility of consciousness and memory in ever-decreasing circles, through La Science des Rêves, which saw Gael Garcia Bernal flit between waking dream and dream-like reality, to this slight tale.Jack Black and Mos Def play chumps left in charge of a fading video store who somehow contrive to accidentally erase all their stock, and then set about remaking each film guerilla-style, to a wholly unfeasible and presumably intendedly life-affirming groundswell of community support for their hare-brained undertaking. The concept is strong enough, but the execution is as flimsy as the 20-minute botch-jobs they make of the likes of Ghostbusters, and it all really hinges far too heavily on the viewer's unquestioning devotion to Black's usual unlovable mugging of screentime with his array of arched smirks and wacky voices.
4/10
2 comments:
I became disillusioned with Jack Black after suffering through "The Holiday" ...
You poor man. School of Rock finished me off for good.
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