A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Give Be Kind Rewind a little time and an open mind, and it just might grow on you. Its premise is absurd, but adorably so.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
22 Feb 2008
fresh:
Be Kind Rewind declares that the riches of cinema history touch each of us personally. Films become so deep a part of us that we own them that our memories of them, whether faithful or fanciful, become their meanings.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
22 Feb 2008
rotten:
Long before the movie ends, it slips right off the sprockets.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
22 Feb 2008
rotten:
Takes a clever concept and cobbles a weak story around it.
– Claudia Puig,
USA Today,
22 Feb 2008
fresh:
It's hard to get too cranky about a movie that, at heart, is a tribute to the joy of making things with your friends.