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Article: MOVIESDynamite formula fizzles
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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Jared Hess may be the first filmmaker to be bored by his own
freaks. "Napoleon Dynamite" barely got by on the novelty of its
ticked-off nerd hero and flattened sense of Middle American gothic,
and it was genial enough to pick up a cult of school kids and
adolescents who are always on the lookout for weird stuff, the
better to peck it to pieces.
What are we to make of "Gentlemen Broncos," though - a comedy
that can't even admit to its own overwhelming sense of disgust? Once
again a misfit teenager is at the heart of it: Michael Angarano as
Benjamin Purvis, a shy kid who lives in Utah in a geodesic dome with
his fashion-deluded mother (Jennifer Coolidge) and writes epic
science-fiction ...