The subject of Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel’s documentary The Pez Outlaw, Steve Glew is a relentless weirdo with long hippie hair and a big Santa Claus beard. Portrait. In the words of his wife, Kathy Grew, “a smart and wandering creative person,” he said, obsessed with breakfast cereals, Tom Clancy novels, and pez candy dispensers, a gruff man. is a charismatic eccentric and he collected them, in the 1980s. His covert efforts to smuggle rare European dispensers into the United States made Gruw a sort of black market hero among serious Pez collectors and provoked the ire of Scott McWhinney, former president of Pez Candy USA. rice field. known as a pedant.
Glew is a delightful screen presence, and his story, albeit undeniably trivial, has some of the engaging, low-risk whimsy of a great magazine feature. The directors approach the material with lightness and humor, presenting a dramatic retelling of the anecdotes told by Glew and others in a highly stylized, almost parody form. Made to look like a film noir speakeasy. Importantly, Glew himself is never the subject of jokes. The film has so much love for its subject matter that it can’t even gently ridicule Glew’s quirkiness, preferring instead to lionize him. The inevitable result of this talkative idolatry is that the playful tone begins to feel rather sombre. Like Pez, this movie is charming, colorful, and perhaps too sweet.
pez outlaw
Unrated. Running time: 1 hour 25 minutes.rent or buy apple tv, google play and other streaming platforms and pay-TV operators.