{"id":169414,"date":"2017-07-09T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=169414"},"modified":"2017-06-28T07:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:34:28","slug":"brigsby-bear-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2017\/07\/09\/brigsby-bear-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigsby Bear Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_169418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169418\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-from-Brigsby-Bear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-from-Brigsby-Bear.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from Brigsby Bear\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-169418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-from-Brigsby-Bear.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Photo-from-Brigsby-Bear-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-169418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Brigsby Bear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BRIGSBY BEAR<br \/>\nSony Pictures Classics<br \/>\nDirector:  Dave McCary<br \/>\nWritten by: Kevin Costello, Kyle Mooney<br \/>\nCast: Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, Mark Hamill<br \/>\nScreened at: Sony, NYC, 6\/27\/17<br \/>\nOpens: July 28, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard of an enlightened kidnapping?  That\u2019s not the one which finds the miscreants looking for ransom or using their victims as sex slaves.  The best kind of kidnapping\u2014at least the kind that\u2019s the least of the evils\u2014involves people who abduct children because they do not have any of their own. They treat their captives with advantages unknown among kids who remain with their own folks\u2014who will likely get divorced or be miserable together.  Dave McCary, a Saturday Night Live writer directing his first full-length movie, goes for the offbeat, which is to say a story that takes more risks than he took when he served as director of TV shorts on Medicare, Republican presidential candidates, Freedom and America\u2019s debt.  Yet because he is graced with the acting chops of Kyle Mooney, a co-writer in the title role, his movie could be embraced even outside the art-house crowds and could lead many in the audience to pull out their Kleenex as the final credits roll.<\/p>\n<p>The story opens on some VHS celluloid about a Teddy bear that\u2019s almost the height of Harvey the invisible Rabbit, an animal that may be too tall and weird to be huggable especially since this Teddy presumes to teach his viewers that \u201ccuriosity is an unnatural emotion.\u201d (Sounds like good advice to cats, at least.)  James Pope (Kyle Mooney) memorizes each episode like today\u2019s fanboys for Star Trek, taking charge of a forum to blog on the show.  The 25-year-old James, however, though a happy guy, is being unknowingly kept in a bunker by his alleged parents Ted Hope (Mark Hamill) and April (Jane Adams), hidden him away from the outside world.  When the good-natured adults are busted in an FBI raid, James is befriended by Detective Vogel (Greg Kinnear), who introduces James to his biological parents Greg Pope (Matt Walsh) and Louise (Michaela Watkins).  Though his sister Aubrey (Ryan Simpkins) is embarrassed by James\u2019s dorkiness, he makes friends at a party especially with the super-hip Spencer (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.). connecting with them over discussions on making new episodes.  He gradually becomes assimilated into the real world.<\/p>\n<p>Thematically, \u201cBrigsby Bear\u201d is about the creative impulse, as not only does a group of young people succeed in making this new movie, but most significantly, Detective Vogel, who appeared in his earlier days in theater in characterizations such as that of Prospero in Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cThe Tempest,\u201d reignites that spirit to take on a role in the new episode.  <\/p>\n<p>Director McCary and writers Kevin Costello and Kyle Mooney succeed in presenting to the movie audience an ode to both creativity and to the movie industry itself, but this film would not have been the success it hopes to be without the terrific work of the whole ensemble, each member of which gets more or less fifteen minutes of fame.  \u201cBrigsby Bear\u201d was filmed  in Salt Lake City and is graced by some magical visual effects, particularly in the opening scenes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated PG-13.  100 minutes.  \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<br \/>\nComments, readers?  Agree? Disagree? Why?<\/p>\n<p>Story \u2013 A-<br \/>\nActing \u2013 B+<br \/>\nTechnical \u2013 B+<br \/>\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIGSBY BEAR Sony Pictures Classics Director: Dave McCary Written by: Kevin Costello, Kyle Mooney Cast: Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, Mark Hamill Screened at: Sony, NYC, 6\/27\/17 Opens: July 28, 2017 Have you ever heard of an enlightened kidnapping? 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