Kabluey

66

Regent Releasing (86 minutes)
and Scott Prendergast
Lisa Kudrow , Christine Taylor , Teri Garr , Conchata Ferrell , Chris Parnell , and Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Rating: PG-13 for some sexual material including a crude reference, and brief strong language

Summary: Inept Salman comes to help his sister-in-law tend to her homicidal toddlers while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq. Salman must take a humiliating job as a giant blue corporate mascot to help make ends meet and hold the family together. Packed with a parade of delightful comedy character actors, Kabluey is a hilarious, unique, and heartfelt comedy. (Regent Releasing)

Stephen Holden
The New York Times:
(80) The film's distance from factual reality oddly enhances its bleak underlying vision. It portrays a demoralized American work force fearfully going through the motions of life while waiting without much hope for things to get better.

Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide:
(75) Groundlings alumnus Prendergast's dark comedy, drawn from on his own family experiences, is firmly rooted in messy, selfish, often-unappealing human behavior rather than self-referential irony and juvenile goofiness.

Nathan Rabin
The Onion (A.V. Club):
(75) While the film's social-satire elements are flat and overly familiar, its dry absurdity is unmistakably Lynchian.

Jim Ridley
Village Voice:
(70) Catches the nation's mood of economic anxiety and workplace exploitation more pungently than anything else in theaters.

Stephen Farber
The Hollywood Reporter:
(70) The film is an ambitious mix of slapstick, black comedy and stinging social commentary.

Lou Lumenick
New York Post:
(63) Strange and quirky.

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