Gentlemen Broncos

A Writer, a Snake and Bodily Waste

At one point during “Gentlemen Broncos,” a misfire from the filmmakers who brought the world “Napoleon Dynamite” and, more happily, “Nacho Libre,” I began to wonder how many evacuations a comedy can deliver before they ruin the joke. The spray of vomit that inspired this question had just shot out of the mouth of the hapless teenager at the center of the new movie, an emission preceded or followed by (I lost track) a geyser of snake feces and some nonreptilian, if equally repellent, defecation.
The problem, of course, as great gross-out comedies from “Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life” to “American Pie” have proved time and again, has nothing to do with waste matter and everything to do with timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at, all mostly missing from “Gentlemen Broncos. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3110 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 29 Ottobre 2009