Can you say, “Who you gonna call?”
We posted a shitty-version of this trailer from Comic-Con earlier in the week, but now the full-blown, cripsy clean version of Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” has finally arrived online (click on the image above).
The movie centers around a doofus pair of video store clerks (Jack Black and Mos Def) who accidentally erase an entire Video store’s library of VHS films (apparently we’re pre DVD era here). To appease the senile owner (played by Mia Farrow), the two remake and re-enact hundreds of films in hopes she won’t notice the difference. Hilarity ensues. The pair remake ultra low-budget versions of “Ghostbusters,” “Rush Hour 2,” “Robo Cop,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Boyz In the Hood,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” what appears to be “Rocky,” and many more. Gotta love the use of Ray Parker Jr.
The song at the end of the trailer is “Nothing from Nothing,” by one-time Beatles keyboardist and general funkmeister Billy Preston. Recognize the sprite-y orchestral track at the beginning of the trailer? It’s a Maurice Revel track taken from “The Royal Tenebaums.”
Download: Maurice Ravel – “String Quartet in F Major (performed by Ysaye Quartet)
