Mr Fletcher, Mike and Jerry have a discussion about sexual experiences, during which Mr Fletcher tells Jerry that he can’t imagine too much action (sex) coming out of Jerry’s trailer.The shopkeeper confronts the pair with a large carving knife, but when he discovers Mike and Jerry he lowers the knife, and tells the pair that he doesn’t want to hurt them. Mike and Jerry use a brick to smash several glass doors in an attempt to break into a video store and steal an overhead projector.In other recreated scenes, a car muffler is used as a machine gun with firecrackers representing gunfire and a bucket of tomato sauce (representing blood) is tipped over a woman’s head. In a recreated scene of on-screen violence a pizza is placed underneath a dead body’s head to represent blood and gore.Mr Fletcher twists a gang member’s arm behind his back when the gang member begins to complain loudly in his shop the gang member immediately apologises.When one of them is denied membership by a shop assistant, he tells the shop attendant that she is ‘… real lucky we don’t beat up girls’. Four rough looking gang members enter the Be Kind Rewind video shop.Mike squirts Jerry with a fire extinguisher.On a couple of occasions, Mike hits Jerry over the head with a metal frying pan with Jerry appearing to suffer no ill effects as a result.Mike and Jerry have a push and shove match in the video shop involving mild wrestling and a couple of mild punches to the arm.Jerry’s magnetised body is attracted to a metal fence and light poles, causing his body to slam into them.Jerry is also depicted urinating in the street, we see Jerry from the waist up standing between two cars with a stream of metallic looking urine running down the gutter the urine attracts all manner of metallic debris as it runs down the gutter. Later Jerry complains of a bad headache and on two occasions he vomits on the ground (we see images of Jerry bending over from behind and hear him making retching noises and the sound of vomit splattering onto the ground). When attempting to sabotage the power plant, Jerry is electrocuted with his body convulsing as it is suspended above the ground by bolts of electricity.On a couple of occasions, Jerry headbutts metal poles.Mike and Jerry’s remake films also contain some recreated film violence but this is very obviously staged and comic when compared to the original film versions. There is occasional comedic violence and accidental harm. Their version is such a hit in the neighbourhood that they set out to make more films and more money for the shop, until they are stopped by copyright lawyer Ms Lawson (Sigourney Weaver). When Mrs Falewicz wants to hire the now unavailable video of Ghost Busters, Mike and Jerry decide to remake the film themselves and entice Alma (Melonie Diaz) a girl from the local dry cleaners’ shop to act as their co-star. The next day when Jerry walks into Mr Fletcher’s shop, he inadvertently erases all of the videotapes in the store. Jerry decides it is time to sabotage the power plant, but things do not go as planned and he becomes magnetised as a result of being electrocuted. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Mr Fletcher is away Mike is placed in charge of the shop. Jerry is continuously concerned that the government is using the power station to send out brain controlling microwaves. Mike’s best friend is Jerry (Jack Black), who is somewhat accident-prone and lives in a caravan next to an electricity power plant. The shop has been condemned and is due to be demolished in 6 weeks unless Mr Fletcher can come up with $60,000 for repairs. He has a few loyal customers like Mrs Falewicz (Mia Farrow). ![]() Mike (Mos Def) is the sole employee of the Be Kind Rewind video hire shop, owned by Mr Fletcher (Danny Glover) who refuses to bow down to changing times and change his stock from VHS to DVD format.
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