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Avg. Critic Score: 28 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
12 Iffy for 12+
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  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The director, Jared Hess, who made "Napoleon Dynamite," a film I admit I didn't get, has made a film I don't even begin to get. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    Has little to offer besides unrelenting strangeness. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety |

    Napoleon Dynamite seems perfectly well-adjusted (not to mention downright charismatic) compared to homeschooled mama's boy Benjamin Purvis in Gentlemen Broncos, the latest oddball character portrait from one-trick helmer Jared Hess. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    If you didn't know otherwise, you'd swear that Gentlemen Broncos was made by a disaffected high school student and not a particularly talented one. Read full review

  • 38
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    A comedy that can't even admit to its own overwhelming sense of disgust. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times |

    Satire aside, what the oddball folks here never feel is real, despite the filmmakers' claims of autobiographical parallels. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing from Gentlemen Broncos. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Setting out to make a cult movie is almost as strange as setting out to make a camp movie. Or setting out to make a movie that's so bad it's good. If you know you're doing it, you're not really doing it. Read full review

  • 16
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The audience may have bought the act in "Napoleon Dynamite." But this time, the act bombs. Read full review

  • 12
    Washington Post |

    What Michael Bay did for the Hollywood blockbuster with his second "Transformers" movie, Jared Hess has now done for the low-budget indie with Gentlemen Broncos -- namely, stain an entire genre with a sense of soulless calculation. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 12+ Indie comedy is too gross, cringe-inducing to be funny.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that although this comedy from the folks behind Napoleon Dynamite -- which co-stars Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement -- is pretty light on sexuality and swearing (particularly for a PG-13 movie), it's quite uncomfortable to watch. There's an off-putting amount of bodily parts, functions, and fluids -- such as yeast, gonads, vomit, and feces. In one scene, a kiss takes place immediately after a guy throws up, and the "evidence" is on both kissers' faces afterward. Consequently, some families may not feel that the humor is appropriate, despite the relatively mild language (one "apes--t") and mostly cartoonish violence.
  • Families who've seen Napoleon Dynamite and/or Nacho Libre can talk about how this movie compares to the director's previous films. What do his characters have in common?
  • Is the movie's scatalogical humor funny or off-putting? How does it compare to other movies in which this kind of humor is equally prevalent?
  • How does the movie depict the sci-fi genre and culture/fans? Do you think it's an accurate portrayal?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Despite the negative messages from Chevalier and Lonnie, there's at least one positive take away: that unethical behavior will eventually be caught. There's also a loving relationship between a mother and son.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: Chevalier is a greedy character who makes artists (in this case, authors) seem like they only care about sales and not about artistic integrity. Many of the other characters are unsympathetic and unlikable.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: The sci-fi scenes feature cartoonish violence -- like guns that appear out of animals' eyes/backsides, killer Cyclops, and explosive vomit. Several fictional characters die or are blown up, but it's not graphic and no corpses are visible. Darts hit Ben's mom in the breast (technically, it hits her gel insert), as well as another character. Although it's not violent, there's a gross scene in which a snake poops (a lot) and various images of "gonads" (in jars, being thrown around, stepped on, sewn on, etc).
  • sex false2 Sex: Tabatha flirts with Ben, and they end up kissing briefly (immediately after he vomits, so it's pretty disturbing). Several discussions about Chevalier's fictional Harpies saga, in which the women have incredibly large breasts that can shoot "mammary cannons" and the like.
  • language false2 Language: One "apes--t," but otherwise fairly tame: "nads," "darn you" "dang," "freak," and "crap."
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false0 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Not an issue
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