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Over the weekend I watched Son of Rambow. I have heard plenty of accolades heaped on this British film, so I wanted to check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsAChn35HSo

"SON OF RAMBOW is the name of the home movie made by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions. Set on a long English summer in the early 80's, SON OF RAMBOW is a comedy about friendship, faith and the tough business of growing up. We see the story through the eyes of Will, the eldest son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family. The Brethren regard themselves as God's 'chosen ones' and their strict moral code means that Will has never been allowed to mix with the other 'worldlies,' listen to music or watch TV, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirate copy of Rambo: First Blood and from that moment Will's mind is blown wide open and he's easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters' diabolical home movie. Will's imaginative little brain is not only given chance to flourish in the world of film making, but is also very handy when it comes to dreaming up elaborate schemes to keep his partnership with Lee Carter a secret from the Brethren community. Will and Carter's complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious rollercoaster that eventually leads to true friendship. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but when popularity descends on them in the form of the Pied Piper-esque French exchange student, Didier Revol, their unique friendship and their precious film are pushed, quite literally, to breaking point."

The two main characters are very cute and funny. The scenes with them were fun to watch. I enjoyed the scenes of the main character Will when the film would go into his imagination and adding a nice fantasy element to Son of Rambow. The movie just did not give me enough of this ding dang it. I did like the time period the creators chosen, the early eighties, because the fashion and music was perfect.

I did enjoy the film at the end, but I find a couple major story lines could have been edited out because they went nowhere. I thought the film makers should have trimmed out the religous and foreign exchange student plot threads out of the final product. by the time the movie was over I was a little emotionally invested in the main characters process of creating a movie and a life long friendship.

After all the hyper I read about and heard from plenty of reviews on geek oriented podcast (Totally Rad Show) I was ready to enjoy Son of Rambow. I am just sick of all of these British films come over to the states and they get tagged with "quaint" insteed of "so-so". I was becoming pretty bored with the movie half way through, until the cute wrap up ending.