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2005 · comedy

Bob the Butler

Directed by Gary Sinyor1h 30m2005
ElsewhereIMDb5.64k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Bob, an incompetent man, is searching for an available job by alphabetical order. He had just failed all of the A's, and discovers an ad in the Yellow Pages for a butler school. He is the only one in the butler school course to pass, because all of the other people quit due to the embarrassment and pressure of the teacher.

Our read · Bob the Butler (2005) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want silly Tom Green slapstick as a bumbling butler winning a family.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 1/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou dislike crude physical comedy or want sophisticated laughs.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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