Gentlemen Broncos

Jared and Jerusha Hess' 'Gentlemen Broncos' treats all its characters like jokes, and they're unfunny jokes at that

Watching "Gentlemen Broncos" sparks the pressing question: "Is it worse to be clueless or self-deluded?" That's because most every character in this ill-conceived curio from the quirky minds of co-writers Jared and Jerusha Hess ("Napoleon Dynamite," "Nacho Libre") is either one or the other -- or both. Satire aside, what the oddball folks here never feel is real, despite the filmmakers' claims of autobiographical parallels. Instead, badly dressed and unflatteringly shot, they come off like punch lines to jokes that never pay off. [...]

di Gary Goldstein, articolo completo (2799 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 30 ottobre 2009