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1 May 2008 1:00 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

The creators of the sentimental coming-of-age film Son Of Rambow can go ahead and make that check out to Wes Anderson, care of Rushmore Academy, with a portion of the residuals due to Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) and his signature Rube Goldberg setpieces. Or at least a producer's credit for Rushmore character Max Fischer, whose homemade stage productions of Serpico and Heaven And Earth have a child-like visual stamp that carries over into Rambow's grade-school take on Sylvester Stallone's famed vigilante. Director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith—the team better known as "Hammer & Tongs"—made a name for themselves in music videos, but much like their uneven adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the film works better in sequences than as a whole, and suffers from an overly familiar homemade aesthetic. Son Of Rambow centers on the tentative friendship between two outcast kids in early-'80s England.

Scott Tobias

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