Here's What Some Critics Are Saying About GENTLEMEN BRONCOS...
A WILDLY INVENTIVE, AUDACIOUS AND GENRE-SWIRLING COMEDY. Hess blends local color with celestial inspiration to create a forthright and original religious vision matched by few films, whether dramatic or comic."
— Richard Brody,
The New Yorker
"The best part of this enchantingly freakish comedy is Jemaine Clement. Even if you love him on 'Flight of the Conchords,' you’ll be unprepared for his genius – and charisma. And Halley Feiffer is a whiz with deadpan."
— David Edelstein, New York Magazine
"The delightful, demented brains behind 'Napoleon Dynamite' get even geekier with this new comedy. Inspiredly absurd... it’s a lot of fun."
– In Touch
"Production designer Richard A. Wright deserves endless kudos for scrupulously rendering the details in both the real and fantasy segments — whether it is the décor of the Purvis domicile or, in the fantasy snippets, the mechanized Christmas reindeer and the clumsy Cyclops that Bronco/Brutus must battle in his quest for yeast on a glowing, faux-forbidding lunar landscape, production design is always stellar."
"The ingredients are in place for a cult favorite."
– John P. McCarthy, Boxoffice.com
"Jemaine Clement is hilarious. The memorably quirky characters make it all worthwhile.”
– Michael Sauter, Life & Style
"A fun, quirky comedy... Jennifer Coolidge is hilarious... If you can channel your inner teenage boy, 'Broncos' will feed you like a much-needed after-school Twinkie."
– Natasha Stoynoff, People
"Sam Rockwell is a blast."
– Peter Hall, Cinematical.com
This was a beautiful, dense, smart, loving, feeling, funny as f movie. Were the critics watching the same thing I was? Great job to the filmmakers and all involved. Great casting, costumes, music, story (complex and awesome), design,etc.
For whatever reason, this film isbeing misunderstood in 2009. I think it will hold up over time and be recognized as the advanced love letter to CREATIVITY and EMPATHY it is.
Keep on.