"Son of Rambow" reviews and interviews

"Son of Rambow", Hammer & Tong's second movie after "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" is now in theaters in british cinemas since the 4th April.

Of course there are references to Hitchhiker's including this surprising statement from Garth :

"- Did the success of your previous film, Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, afford you better financial clout for this one? - Garth I thought it would have. I mean, it went to number one and I thought, great. If anything it made it harder though, it took over a year of going to see everyone in the UK and getting turned down repeatedly, it was almost impossible to get people to stop thinking about the sci-fi film and buy into this. That’s why the money came from France in the end." http://www.screenjabber.com/sonoframbow_feature

83% at the tomatometter

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/son_of_rambow/

8,1/10 sur imdb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0845046/

EMPIRE ON LINE

A potentially disposable, tongue-in-cheek First Blood pisstake turns out to be a deeply effective, surprisingly touching tale of family and childhood friendship. If you only see one Rambo movie this year, make sure it’s this one.

Four stars out of five

http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/review.asp?FID=134768

You can also watch video interviews with Garth Jennings and Jessica Hynes on http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/

YAHOO.CO.UK

"Son Of Rambow is so loveable it could give heart-warming movies a good name... Son Of Rambow is delightful, nostalgic, but never schlocky - if you only watch one Stallone-related film this year, make it this one. Unlike John Rambo's misfiring latest, Son Of Rambow hits the bullseye."

Four stars out of five. http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/s/Son-Of-Rambow/review-3812516.html

BBC

"A joyous spirit of mischief is ever-present and Jennings has an eye for brilliant visual gags too... Crucially, their rapport feels totally authentic, so beyond the belly laughs and sunny 80s nostalgia, this is a portrait of friendship which is truly tender and moving."

Four stars out of five.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2008/03/31/son_of_rambow_2008_review.shtml

Video http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/bbci/new_bbci/?video5

INDIELONDON

"YOU’VE got to hand it to Garth Jennings for persevering with Son Of Rambow, a deeply personal labour-of-love that emerges as one of the feel-good British treats of the year." http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/son-of-rambow-review

Interviews : http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/son-of-rambow-garth-jennings-interview

Video Interview with Garth Jennings and Jessica Hynes (you can see some Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy toys behind Garth when he's talking) http://www.kewego.co.uk/video/iLyROoafYJvn.html

TIMEOUT

"Garth Jennings’s last film, ‘The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, had visual imagination to burn, but was less sure-footed when it came to plot and character. It’s a pleasure, then, to find that his follow-up shows just as much wit and verve in its production design, while also succeeding as storytelling: ‘Son of Rambow’ is a schoolboy yarn with a bracing emotional honesty that packs a real kick."

Four stars out of six http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/84083/Son_of_Rambow.html

Garth Jennings interview http://www.timeout.com/film/features/show-feature/1642/

EYE FOR FILM

"The script sizzles with humour, but more importantly, like Danny Boyle's Millions, it carries an emotional weight. Keeping the cast small means the characters of Will and Lee are well fleshed out and, though firmly rooted in British culture, their experiences are universal. Sure to be a box office smash."

Five out of five http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/reviews.php?film_id=12122

Interview http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature.php?id=510

TWITCHFILM

Interview http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/garth-jennings-talks-son-of-rambow/

"Son of Rambow" released in UK the 4th April, in US the 2nd May

The new Hammer & Tongs movie is going finally to hit theatres in UK and US very soon. "Son of Rambow" will be released in UK the 4th April and in US the 2nd May.

The movie had some great reviews when he was shown at The Sundance Film Festival last year and at The London Film Festival last october.

Hammer & Tongs has also organized a competition to celebrate the release of their movie."Submit your own original short film about anything. Literally, anything! Be creative and have fun with it. The folks over at Hammer and Tongs will be judging the videos and the winning submission will have their short film placed in the Special Features section of the Son of Rambow DVD"

Visit the "Son of Rambow" website

Son of Rambow got a $8 millions deal in Sundance & mostly good reviews

Son of Rambow, Hammer & Tongs second movie after H2G2, was shown at the Sundance festival. It got mostly excellent reviews and made big news thanks to a huge $8 million distribution deal with Paramount Vantage. But SoR failed to win any prize at the Sundance competition.

Here are some of the reviews :

For CNN.com, SoR is the second best movie of the Sundance festival : "An irresistibly inventive, slapstick celebration of preteen DIY moviemaking from Hammer & Tongs ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"). "Rushmore" meets "The Science of Sleep" in early 1980s middle England."

Firstshowing.net gives 8.5/10 to SoR. "Another film that ramped up its buzz at the festival after the first few screenings, Son of Rambow makes a triumphant debut and lasting impression... This is one of the few I'm very much looking forward to watching again.".

Cinematical : " Son of Rambow feels as real as Will's fantasies of flying dogs and walking planes, but it's also as joyful and inventive and exuberant, as funny and heartfelt as every child's dreams; it's a brilliant celebration of the exuberance and thrill of bad storytelling, of making art, of having dreams."

Variety writes that SoR is a "modestly eccentric entertainment" though "as to be expected from Hammer and Tongs, bright and witty physical and visual touches spill off the screen".

According to Hollywood Reporter, SOR " is pumped up with all the right kids' ingredients: slapstick, fantasy, alienation and severe adult authority figures. But screenwriter and director Garth Jennings has slammed them all together with little cohesion, and further slackened the story with atonal nastiness and gratuitously stick-thin side characters.

Son Of Rambow scheduled at Sundance

Hammer & Tongs new movie "Son of Rambow" will be screened at the famous Sundance Festival the 22, 23 and 24 January.

More details on Sundance website here

"A nostalgic trip back to the 1980s, Son of Rambow is an inventive valentine to an era where, for the first time in history, young minds had access to technology that allowed them to create their own stories while paying homage to their larger-than-life heroes from the movies that inspired them.

Will, who isn't allowed to watch TV or go to the movies, expresses himself through his drawings and illustrations until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and crafter of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirated copy of the first Rambo film, First Blood, which blows his mind wide open. Against his family's orders, his imaginative little brain begins to flower in the world of filmmaking. Will and Lee become popular at school through their films, but when a French exchange student, Didier Revol, arrives on the scene, their unique friendship and precious film are pushed to the breaking point.

Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, aka Hammer & Tongs, the creative visionaries behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, utilize a vast array of visual techniques to perfectly capture the moment in time when anything was possible and dreams could be recreated with a home video camera, a few props, and a ton of imagination.— Trevor Groth"

H&T just wrapped their new movie

Just got this mail from Garth Jennings, director of the H2G2 movie, and who is working with Nick Goldsmith on their new movie "son of Rambow : a home movie" : "All is well here. we wrapped the movie on Monday afternoon. The shoot was a very big success and the post production is already in full swing. ".

Great news. Can't wait to see the movie. Of course a lot of the guys who are part of the Hammer & Tongs family and worked on the H2G2 movie are also working on this new movie : composer Joby Talbot, Dominic Leung (film editor), Joel Collins (production designer),...

If you want to get more informations about Son of Rambow check the official movie website