Blu-ray disc of the week: Be Kind Rewind

In a new weekly feature to T3.com, we bring you the best movie set in a video store since Clerks.

Head towards Empire Records, by-passing the annoyingly-cool people, stopping to pick up some clever and imaginative ideas along the way and you'll end up outside the Be Kind Rewind video store.

Be Kind Rewind sees New Jersey no-hoper Jerry (Black) and reluctant best pal Mike (Mos Def) striving to save a condemned VHS store, further ruined when Jerry becomes magnetised in an electrical mishap and wipes all the tapes.

Eager to please a friend of Mr Fletcher (Danny Glover), the owner, the pair hilariously remake Ghostbusters. Soon, demand for their "Sweded" homage pictures transform them from barrel-scraping blag-artists to the guerrilla film-makers extraordinaire.

Director Michel Gondry's penchant for the abstract, which first shone through in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind and then The Science of Sleep re-emerges here through the endearingly clever low-budget incarnations of classic Hollywood scenes. The early stages stretch believability, but it's all part of the charm of this great little flick.

JB's improv-heavy, shtick as a lovable, but annoying-to-all, doofus is all very familiar but not unwelcome, married beautifully with a quirky feel-good story that'll warm your heart. The best film based in a video store since Clerks.

A Blu-ray buy?

The heart of this movie lies in the characters most amateur of amateur filmmaking, so glorious 1080p almost feels like you're doing it a disservice. There's nothing here that can hugely be enhanced by Hi-Def. Like an old record player... it just sounds better.

Extras

Always good value with Jack Black on the billing, they feature a making of featurette, a conversation with JB and Gondry and some killer improvisations from Black and Moss Def. There's also the "Fats (Waller) Was Born Here" creation which rounds off the movie.