![]() ![]() Nicks builds from there, telling the story of a basketball player who in some ways had every advantage - he’s the son of the NBA journeyman Del Curry - yet flew under the radar as a high school recruit before leading tiny Davidson College to a memorable 2008 NCAA Tournament run. But the film’s opening scene sets the tone, with Reggie Miller - the man once considered to be the NBA’s three-point-shooting master, pre-Curry - reading off Curry’s NBA draft report, in which scouts said he was too small and frail to make much of an impact as a pro. The title of Peter Nicks’ documentary “Stephen Curry: Underrated” is provocative, given that Curry is a two-time NBA MVP with four championship rings. Available on Netflix ‘Stephen Curry: Underrated’ “They Cloned Tyrone.” Rated R for pervasive language, violence, some sexual material and drug use. Taking risks - even when they court disaster - is always better than settling for the same-old same-old. In a way, that ends up being the message of this film. ![]() They should be so full of things to say, so jazzed about their own creativity, that they overindulge. But young filmmakers are supposed to take chances like this. And the dialogue zooms along so fast that it can be hard to follow. The story takes a while to get going, then rambles a lot once the premise has been established. Some viewers may still, understandably, find this movie’s humor elusive. When they start working together, they’re more like three lovably goofy detectives. In the opening scenes of “They Cloned Tyrone,” the constant banter among this trio has a hostile, almost shrill edge. The Nancy Drew-obsessed Yo-Yo springs into action, leading Fontaine and Slick Charles on an investigation into the resurrection that ends up unraveling multiple mysteries in their community. The latter two influences kick in after Fontaine gets assassinated by one of his rivals and then - surprising everyone who saw him die - shows up the next day around the Glen as usual, with no memory of what happened. Taylor and Rettenmaier are evoking “Superfly” - along with “ They Live” and a bit of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” ![]() “They Cloned Tyrone” has a grainy look and a retro soundtrack, akin to a ‘70s blaxploitation picture. Writer-director Juel Taylor and his co-writer Tony Rettenmaier spend a long time at the start of the movie establishing the trio’s daily life in the Glen, where nearly everybody’s hustling, trying to get what they’re owed from people who are broke. These three unlikely heroes are, respectively, Fontaine ( John Boyega), Slick Charles ( Jamie Foxx) and Yo-Yo ( Teyonah Parris). And what if they were conducting experiments in mind control using junk food, hair products and club jams? And what if a gang boss, a pimp and a prostitute stumbled on the conspiracy and tried to expose it, in their own clumsy, bickering way? The movie’s big idea: What if a shadowy government cabal had a secret lair located just below a predominantly Black neighborhood known as the Glen. The offbeat science-fiction comedy “They Cloned Tyrone” has a high-concept premise, delivered with a distinctively skewed, slapstick-esque comic rhythm. ![]()
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