Be Kind Rewind is a charming flick about friendship, community, and the love of movies.
As a result of an incident at the local power plant a magnetised Jerry (Jack Black) accidentally erases all the videotapes in the video store where his friend Mike (Mos Def) works. In order to meet demand from customers they recreate the lost movies with the help of a young woman from the drycleaners, and using just a camcorder. When asked by a customer why the movies take so long to arrive and cost more than other videos Jerry blurts out that it’s because they have to come from Sweden. “Hence”, he says, “the films are referred to as ‘Sweded’”.
Their sweded films are hilarious and along with the camouflage scene at the power plant are highlights of the movie. According to the credits they should be available at the Be Kind Rewind website, but sadly, not so. You can find some made by others, however @ http://www.swededmovies.org/ and on YouTube @ http://www.youtube.com/user/BeKindMovie#p/f …………….or perhaps make your own.
It was wonderful to see Mia Farrow again; and the casting of Mos Def as Mike is brilliant, his calmness a counterpoint to Jerry’s excess.
BTW at our place we’re planning on sweding an episode of Man vs Wild. Follow this link and you’ll get an idea of what inspired us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osE542oTMDA
