In a comedy that never fulfils its potential, a small boy duped into believing in an imaginary TV character grows up and shares it with the world
Here’s a movie that is heading somewhere interesting but never quite makes it: a nerd comedy co-written by and starring SNL turn Kyle Mooney. He plays James, who was abducted as a toddler by two crazed educationists who kept him hidden in the house all day, and made him watch an endless stream of VHS tapes, episodes of their own bizarre home-filmed fantasy epic, Brigsby Bear, a story with ethical and mathematical lessons.
Poor James has grown to adulthood as the show’s No 1 fan, poignantly believing Brigsby Bear to be a global smash with millions of viewers. But when he is discovered, freed and returned to his family, James must come to terms with the fact that he is the only...
Here’s a movie that is heading somewhere interesting but never quite makes it: a nerd comedy co-written by and starring SNL turn Kyle Mooney. He plays James, who was abducted as a toddler by two crazed educationists who kept him hidden in the house all day, and made him watch an endless stream of VHS tapes, episodes of their own bizarre home-filmed fantasy epic, Brigsby Bear, a story with ethical and mathematical lessons.
Poor James has grown to adulthood as the show’s No 1 fan, poignantly believing Brigsby Bear to be a global smash with millions of viewers. But when he is discovered, freed and returned to his family, James must come to terms with the fact that he is the only...
- 12/6/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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