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Kabluey (2008) Rank 5 Reviews
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HDFest.com (Gerald Wright)
Scott Prendergast, first-time director, writer and co-star has taken a simple story of a black sheep member of a family and surprisingly turned this tale into a thoughtful dark comedy. The entire movie stayed true to the independent film form and ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at HDFest.com (Gerald Wright)
NewsBlaze (Kam Williams)
About once a month nowadays, another political drama is released examining the toll being exacted by the war on military veterans and their families. But virtually each of these well-meaning morality plays, from Lions for Lambs to In The Valley of Elah ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at NewsBlaze (Kam Williams)
EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Independent films about 30-year-old boy-men who don't know what to do with their lives are as plentiful as snowflakes at Sundance. So when someone finds a way to freshen up the old format, as Scott Prendergast does in "Kabluey," you take ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
"Kabluey" is an odd little bird, but odd little birds, like the rest of them, can still be gentle, affectionate creatures. Written and directed by Scott Prendergast in his feature film debut, this bittersweet comedy, mixing broad physical humor with ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Dark humor abounds with Lisa Kudrow in a melancholy but humorous role of a woman whose husband has been recalled into Iraq leaving her with two bratty kids to take care of. ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
atching Scott Prendergast's Kabluey, the mind keeps returning to Family Guy and how every episode of the FOX program hinges on how wildly, blissfully and absurdly it digresses from the machinations of plot. Recalling the brilliant "No Chris Left Behind," ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
New York Times (Stephen Holden)
In the recent epidemic of comedies about 30-something men in the throes of severe arrested development, he is one of the most pitifully incompetent losers. ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at New York Times (Stephen Holden)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
This unexpectedly captivating comedy is about the effect a nerdly guy has on his sister-in-law Leslie (Lisa Kudrow) who is totally stressed out since her husband, his brother, left for Iraq a year and a half ago. The house is in shambles; her two sons ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Time Out New York (Mark Holcomb)
Derivative yet weirdly resistant to dismissal, Scott Prendergast’s Kabluey is an unclassifiable head-scratcher. The former Groundlings comedy-troupe member assembles an assortment of unappealing characters, an exhausted setup (spiritual emptiness in ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at Time Out New York (Mark Holcomb)
Boxoffice Magazine (Tim Cogshell)
The filmmakers here not only disguise what they would like to say about the long-waged war, they obscure the message, leaving one with not much more than a few brief glimpses of the war's effects amidst a number of quirky distractions. ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Tim Cogshell)
NewsBlaze (Prairie Miller)
A dysfunctional family frolic about a guy whose day job entails getting himself stuck inside a gigantic promotional mascot costume known as Kabluey, the movie that goes by the same name is itself an equally ill-fitting matchup of sorts between Daddy Day ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at NewsBlaze (Prairie Miller)
rec.arts.movies.reviews (Louis Proyect)
There are worse ways to spend an evening at a movie theater than this movie that is far better with sight gags than character development, plot or dialog. ...read the complete Kabluey movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Louis Proyect)
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