By Summer Rogers
Daily Titan Staff Writer

From the minds that brought us Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite comes the newest addition to Jared and Jerusha Hess’s body of work; a tale of science fiction, plagiarism and outlandish characters in the new film Gentlemen Broncos.

Set in a small town in Utah, the story follows a home-schooled boy, Benjamin Purvis (Michael Angarano, The Forbidden Kingdom) who attends a writing camp, Cletus Fest (“the best writer’s camp in Utah”) and meets his writing idol, “the greatest science fiction writer of our time,” Dr. Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords). Benjamin submits his sci-fi story, “Yeast Lords: The Bronco Years,” in a writing contest to be considered for publication. When Chevalier is told by his publisher that he needs to write something spectacular or he will be let go, he steals Benjamin’s story and bastardizes it by making the main character, the masculine Bronco, into Brutus, an effeminate transvestite.

Angrano was great as the awkward underdog Benjamin. Jennifer Coolidge (Epic Movie) was notable as Benjamin’s single mom who is trying to make her mark on Utah with her outlandish women’s clothing line. She is far from her MILF role as Stifler’s mom in the American Pie movies, but totally rocked the pink kitten sweaters. Sam Rockwell (Moon) has a small role as both Bronco and Brutus when both versions of the sci-fi work come to life in the imaginations of the writers.

Broncos has the same tone and feel as Dynamite with a few differences. The plot moves at a better pace as opposed to the slow-moving feel of Dynamite. However, Dynamite is much more quotable than Broncos: “Do the chickens have large talons?” “My lips hurt real bad.” “I caught you a delicious bass.”

Gentleman Broncos won’t become the cult classic, pop culture-integrated film that Dynamite has become, but fans of Libre and Dynamite will certainly laugh out loud and enjoy the film.