Be Kind Rewind

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Be Kind Rewind is a movie about Elroy Fletcher (Danny Glover) whose video rental store is going to be closed if he does not make repairs and improve the business. In the modern age of DVD's, Mr. Fletcher's store is still selling VHS movie tapes. When Mr. Fletcher goes away one week, he leaves Mike (Mos Def) in charge. Well all was going good until Jerry (Jack Black) threw a grappling hook into a generator and became magnetized. After which time, Jerry erased all the VHS tapes in the store because he was magnetized. With a struggling store filled with VHS tapes it was up to Mike and Jerry to do something drastic to get people coming back before Mr. Fletcher returned from his vacation.

Without the money to buy new copies Mike and Jerry started filming their own versions of the movies from what they remember (or in some cases just made stuff up). To explain to the customers why the movies where "different" and more expensive they said the movies were "sweded" or special edition imports from Sweden.

The "sweded" movies they show in the movie and the idea itself was hilarious. Unfortunately I can not say the same about the general story line, and film. The ending was a little lame and unrealistic (I guess the beginning was too though), and their were not as many funny parts as I would have thought. The movie is defiantly not as good as the trailer suggests, but it does have some funny parts. But in my opinion you can get just as many laughs by going to youtube and watching peoples Be Kind Rewind inspired "sweded" movies.