VHYES succeeds by using comedy sketches the wrong way

| Mar 16, 2020

Throughout, "VHYes" laces its nostalgia with bitter poison, reminding its audience that even in the carefree couch potato days of 1987, the end-times always loomed.

| Feb 3, 2020

The amusing but initially disposable sketch format gathers momentum and a series of mini-threads emerge.

| Jan 23, 2020

This is a movie that is really just a stream of consciousness, experimental, Robot Chicken-style collage.

| Jan 18, 2020

VHYes breaks the biggest rule of parody, over and over again: it simply tries way too hard with material that's far too easy.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 17, 2020

This is pretty thin stuff, written with medium-watt inspiration at best and acted by performers variably able to make it seem better than it is.

| Jan 17, 2020

[T]he real problem with VHYes may be that its two modes don't work well together.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 16, 2020

Though hardly groundbreaking in either its content or its aesthetics, the film is more serious than it initially lets on, and can only benefit from the VHS nostalgia that has, often irrationally, taken root in some quarters.

| Jan 16, 2020

It's almost halfway through before anything approximating a story emerges; even then, it's such a pale, sickly thing you'd be forgiven for thinking you had imagined it.

| Jan 16, 2020

VHYes settles much too comfortably into the well-trodden footsteps of other works.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 12, 2020

VHYEs is a strange yet sweet film that is one-part coming-of-age dramedy, one-part found-footage comedy, and one part channel surfing.

| Oct 4, 2019