Just watched Be Kind, Rewind for the second time in my life. I liked this movie a lot more when I, and apparently 2 other people, went to go see this in the cinemas.
It's nice, it has charm, it's just not what I was expecting. Unless it's a King Kong movie, I expect to walk into a movie featuring Jack Black, and just start laughing. I did just not right away, but they were just slight laughs, not walls off hilarious. I partially blame that on the fact that while this movie was marketed (which equals to about two TV Commercials) as a satirical film, but focused very little on it. It's good just not great.
Most of the cast seemed to be fine, although some parts with Mos Def felt wooden, and felt like it was painful for him to act. It loses points for having Chamillionaire in it, and not have him say "Ridin' Dirty" once.
I'm also happy the ending didn't become cliched as the climax seemed to be pointing to. I was expecting this movie to end with one of two outcomes when I first saw it, I was shocked when out of left field I got hit with a surprise ending.
Overall, Be Kind Rewind is fun and original which is greatly appreciated, it has good performances, but just isn't what you're expecting.I give it a "C".