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2019 1h 12m Comedy List
79% Tomatometer 43 Reviews 69% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
A 12-year-old boy accidentally records television shows over his parents' wedding tape.
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VHYes is a unique film for specific tastes -- and a rare, albeit grimy gift for viewers who can appreciate its retro aesthetic and absurd humor.

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Karen Han Polygon VHYES succeeds by using comedy sketches the wrong way Mar 16, 2020 Full Review Noel Murray Los Angeles Times Throughout, "VHYes" laces its nostalgia with bitter poison, reminding its audience that even in the carefree couch potato days of 1987, the end-times always loomed. Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Wendy Ide Screen International The amusing but initially disposable sketch format gathers momentum and a series of mini-threads emerge. Jan 23, 2020 Full Review Daniel Gorman In Review Online VHYes is very obviously striving for an Adult Swim brand of absurdity, but there's a reason most of those shows are 15 minutes long. Jun 4, 2021 Full Review Andrew F. Peirce The Curb Director Jack Henry Robbins crams an eighties aesthetic into his magnificent feature debut that blasts apart families, nostalgia, capitalism, art, and just about everything else that can be tarnished with the brush of absurd kookiness. Jul 14, 2020 Full Review Andy Crump Paste Magazine Cursed words like "Facebook" and "Instagram" are never uttered in VHYes, for obvious reasons, but the movie reads like Robbins' thesis that for as long as people have been able to self-document, they've done so with relish... Rated: 7.9/10 Mar 11, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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prawnda s i love basically every member of the cast, there's a good amount of funny content here, but there isn't quite enough for it to feel like a feature film. i think if it was one part of a series, i'd view it differently, but as one standalone movie it seems to fizzle out just as the jokes really get started. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/21/23 Full Review harrison r Great cast, some good bits. Worth watching to see Mark Proksch improvise with Thomas Lennon, and a great live song from Weyes Blood Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Maybe I'm just old but it made me laugh. Uplifting to me. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review nefasto r It works well as an homage to 80's TV. But as a movie: kind of skinny and useless. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Watching this movie is the closest thing I've had to a religious experience. Without question, from start to finish, "VHYES" is the most hysterical movie I've seen in the last few years – if not entire decade. The filmmakers establish in the opening minutes the sort of crowd they intend to play to during the rest of the movie's fragmented vomit collage of garishly-hued neon cocaine chaos of 80's film & TV media-themed content. The obvious jokes you'd assume to be in something like are there, sure. But even the most cynical detractors of this sort of material will have a hard time justifying such prejudicial attitudes when the credits are rolling. I was a bit worried that the laughing hysteria I was experiencing not even 15 minutes into the movie that it couldn't possibly carry on for another hour without some noticeable gaps where maybe the jokes get old, or that the initial appeal of seeing such a surprising number of cameos from various LEGENDS of comedic acting would wear off – but my fears were not only unfounded, they ended up being so off that I struggle to understand why I had any reservations in the first place. Whether or not you walk away with the same enthusiasm I did is not what is important, (as you'll hopefully see for yourself.) I challenge you to watch this and not be at least a little bit impressed with the amount of creative moxie that burst through 4:3 aspect ratio seams of a cocaine-fueled neon mirror of reality that was the 1980's of American pop culture. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll DEFINITELY be weirded out – but fear not! – for it doesn't take long for the lesbian aliens to fix your machines(!) and you'll be slow-dancing away the evening to a power-ballad so authentic in its form that you never notice the fact that the joke goes on for several stretched minutes, just daring the audience to turn it off or walk away...because they know you won't, they know the hooks are in, deep. Enjoy. I did. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member I don't know what I was expecting. Maybe something a little Tim and Eric esque? It didn't disappoint in that department. Lots of surreal humor and lo-fi public access TV nostalgia, but it held its own. It was oddly sincere, silly, sad, and a little spooky. Really enjoyed this movie. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A 12-year-old boy accidentally records television shows over his parents' wedding tape.
Director
Jack Henry Robbins
Producer
Delaney Schenker
Screenwriter
Nate Gold
Production Co
Hot Winter Films
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
Englisch
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 26, 2020
Runtime
1h 12m
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