2022 Directed by Bryan Storkel, Amy Bandlien Storkel
Steve Glew, a small-town Michigan farmer, boards a plane for Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. His mission is to locate a secret factory that holds the key to the most desired and valuable pez dispensers. If he succeeds, he will pull his family out of poverty and finally find a purpose in his mundane life.
The Pezident was gatekeeping the most yassified Pez from the American public. Steve Glew did what he had to.
Collecting is more or less a disease.
It would have been very easy to make a simple talking head doc with this material, or a mix of interviews and very rudimentary recreations. You could also just create a portrait of the “Pez community,” and the people in that world are so eccentric it probably would be a totally satisfying film.
These filmmakers didn’t do that. They also didn’t so much make a movie about a particular scheme as they made a documentary about the inner life of this fanciful schemer. I really enjoyed the way they brought different genre tropes to their recreations, not only because they matched the whimsical tone of “The Pez Outlaw”’s memories, but also because Pez itself contains multitudes of characters and styles from all across the pop culture spectrum.
That doesn’t mean Pez isn’t gross, because it is. The dispensers? Sure. They’re fun. The candy itself? No. Absolutely not.
the greatest love story of all time.
so damn clever. unbridled joy and pure chaos for 85 minutes.
these pez people be wildin’.
NOW THATS HOW YOU END A DOC!!!!!!!!!
Amusing; brisk; conventional; goofy; nostalgic; quirky; sad; short; sweet; unconventional.
His wife is the single most compelling character I’ve ever seen in a documentary. This movie needs to be become more mainstream so I can debut my drag version of her.
I love how not a single person talked about the candy inside the Pez dispensers. There is one guy that tastes it and he doesn't like it haha!
This film was recommended to me by several friends who know me well. In the first scene we are introduced to an aged OCD Pez collector who was poor most of his life and lived in a barn for years with his wife who seemed to have difficulty relating to him. Right off the bat, this is nothing like me. Except… the collecting.
I am what you would call an OG collector of videogames.
Pez collecting is very different from videogame collecting, but there are a few striking similarities. Large exclusive collections were established pre-internet, when the hobby was a secret to the masses; the most successful collectors would travel as far as it took and use unorthodox measures to…
I love this mad lad of a man, this is an amazing documentary. I like how it was formated and presented in such a fun and entertaining way
SIFF 2022 Watch #18
I can't wait for Netflix to turn this 85 min movie into a 6 hour miniseries.
