I discovered this film on "Telefutura" entitled "El Temerario Kelly"; I was channel surfing & was about to nap. But once I saw the, um, bloodless & campy bank heist scene, I got hooked. (Incidentally, Telefutura usually shows bloodier action films; this is where I get my Van Damme or Steven Seagal fix; I wouldn't even know he's doing a realty show as some U.S. Marshall or something.) I Googled this Yahoo Serious film, I mean, I Yahooed this film (pardon the pun); I had 2 'cause Yahoo was the default search engine on the Wii. Somehow the one link to this article was Melora Hardin in a "b4 they were stars" moment (sort of.) I discovered in the search results for "El Temerario Kelly" that the actress who had a recurring role in "The Office" {US} as Jan was the lead opposite! & I did the math. She wasn't a teenage starlet when she made "Reckless Kelly" at 26 before playing a m!ℓ╘¥ corporate executive of Dunder Mifflin. (She's 42 as I type.) 4 those of you "Office" fans like me, you won't recognize her. Her dark curly coif makes her look like Lara Flynn Boyle or Sherilynn Flynn from "Twin Peaks." & I also learned that this movie followed "Young Einstein," until then the only Yahoo Serious movie I knew.
"Reckless Kelly" was surprisingly entertaining & charming w/ it's corny humor. By the way, watching Ned Kelly or any airplane passenger play w/ his firearms is now strictly dated in this 9/11 era (or perhaps the notion that a trigger-happy foreigner is coming to America.} So if you don't LOL when you see that scene, it's all right. I think Yahoo Serious playing a gun-toting renegade hero like Ned Kelly, inspired by a Aussie historical figure, is akin to the roles Sasha Cohen Baron plays that push the envelope as well (although that envelope was pushed far enough once Brüno showed up.} & it's almost hard 2 believe the movie looked so 80s while you can see above it's from 1993 (so don't expect anything that looks like "Reality Bites"). But maybe that could be 'cause this movie has a non-American perspective; I remember something on "How I Met Your Mother" about how Canadians are one decade behind in style using the example of a 80s music video filmed in the 90s. (But that don't mean I'm slamming non-Americans; I'm filling out paperwork to apply for ambassadorship as I type!) But I digress, the campy humor, such as shooting flies, Ned's outfit, or shooting victims shake their hands in pain instead of dying bloody, quick deaths have that "Police Academy" charm. U'no, the type of comedy you notice upon channel-surfing & stopping on a channel like Telefutura, Azteca America, or Univision {I don't have Telemundo or Galavisión.) If you don't prefer the gross-out, raunchy comedy of "Superbad," "The Hangover," or any other movie in the 00s, you'll like "Reckless Kelly." I'm just fortunate I saw it, as I never knew this movie existed. I won't say it's spectacular or groundbreaking, though, thus the 5 rating. But again, the word I use is "charming." & it's a good thing I also took 4 years of high school Spanish to understand some words & it was probably more entertaining then it would be in English. & again, this movie also stars Melora Hardin long before she'd appear on "The Office" as Jan, Michael's second girlfriend on the series.
"Reckless Kelly" was surprisingly entertaining & charming w/ it's corny humor. By the way, watching Ned Kelly or any airplane passenger play w/ his firearms is now strictly dated in this 9/11 era (or perhaps the notion that a trigger-happy foreigner is coming to America.} So if you don't LOL when you see that scene, it's all right. I think Yahoo Serious playing a gun-toting renegade hero like Ned Kelly, inspired by a Aussie historical figure, is akin to the roles Sasha Cohen Baron plays that push the envelope as well (although that envelope was pushed far enough once Brüno showed up.} & it's almost hard 2 believe the movie looked so 80s while you can see above it's from 1993 (so don't expect anything that looks like "Reality Bites"). But maybe that could be 'cause this movie has a non-American perspective; I remember something on "How I Met Your Mother" about how Canadians are one decade behind in style using the example of a 80s music video filmed in the 90s. (But that don't mean I'm slamming non-Americans; I'm filling out paperwork to apply for ambassadorship as I type!) But I digress, the campy humor, such as shooting flies, Ned's outfit, or shooting victims shake their hands in pain instead of dying bloody, quick deaths have that "Police Academy" charm. U'no, the type of comedy you notice upon channel-surfing & stopping on a channel like Telefutura, Azteca America, or Univision {I don't have Telemundo or Galavisión.) If you don't prefer the gross-out, raunchy comedy of "Superbad," "The Hangover," or any other movie in the 00s, you'll like "Reckless Kelly." I'm just fortunate I saw it, as I never knew this movie existed. I won't say it's spectacular or groundbreaking, though, thus the 5 rating. But again, the word I use is "charming." & it's a good thing I also took 4 years of high school Spanish to understand some words & it was probably more entertaining then it would be in English. & again, this movie also stars Melora Hardin long before she'd appear on "The Office" as Jan, Michael's second girlfriend on the series.