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10/10
A Masterpiece
yamaelle13 March 2000
"Vibroboy" is half an hour of real pleasure : It starts with 3 people quarrelling, Leon, his wife Brigitte and a friend Francesca who's coming back from South America with a gift - an aztec statue - to Brigitte. Unfortunately, Leon is not able to control himself, and therefore gets angry. The beginning is an oppressing movie, and then something happen - I won't tell what, but the statue is somehow magic - and as in "Dusk Till Dawn" the whole story suddenly degenerates into something completely different, starring Vibroboy and his phallic driller.

It contains everything to become a cult movie. In just 28 minutes, there is a real evolution of an original plot, the perfect acting, the fun score ( the french song "Parlez-moi d'Amour" ), some real good special effects - especially for a short... in fact every single thing is within and well done. Just don't expect something gore, it's rather a trash movie.

"Vibroboy" is the last short Jan Kounen made before his first (long) movie "Dobbermann"(1997), in which you also find the particular style he has been developing for the last 10 years. He has made a lot of short movies since 1987, all not in imdb, but all worth watching. If you liked Kounen's work in this one, look mostly for "Captain X"(1993) and "Dobbermann". His next movie will be an adaptation of the serial of comics "Blueberry". I hope it'll be as successful as the rest of his career. Remember his name, you will surely heard of him again in a few years : He's really a genius.

10/10 and I mean it
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Vibratorman to make it a bit clearer
chaperonrouge26 December 2002
Jan Kounen tells a strange story here. A Mexican artefact turns out to be a vibrator. It actually sounds like a bad porn movie, but rest assure, it stays pretty clean. This short again shows the unique style of Kounen's filming, but is also prove of his bad taste when it comes to his writing. Worth seeing for the visuals...
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4/10
Worth seeing only for its strangeness
Horst_In_Translation10 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
"Vibroboy" is an award-winning French French-language movie from 1994, so this one has its 25th anniversary this year and it is an early career effort by director and co-writer Jan Kounen. He is Dutch, but spend most of his filmmaking days in France and the result is for example Dobermann. Anyway, he was also pretty prolific in short film making and this includes music videos as well, worked a lot with Erasure. But if you have seen some of their works, then don't expect to see anything similar here, even if this was made during pretty much the same time. This film we have here is extremely bizarre from start to finish, like Mad Max meets Kenneth Anger meets LGBT meets France. Yeah that fits pretty well. I must say even with English subtitles I had absolutely no idea what was going on. It was all so strange, but sadly that is really the only reason to check it out in my opinion. There is some pretty awkward stuff from the 90s without a doubt, but this one here takes things to the next level, also in terms of acting, costumes, line delivery and of course by how it all was written. And the title already gives away that this is not a film you may want to watch with your 8-year-old kid, even if admittedly it is never a really dirty or obscene movie. Clearly comedy was first choice here and the consequence is that it is a deal breaker for this film if it is funny. I would say no. Not a failure, but also not funny enough for a positive recommendation. Watch something other than these 25 minutes (not including credits). This was just too strange for me and not creately impressive enough by any means.
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8/10
Talk about trailer-trash!
Coventry6 December 2005
Completely insane Science-Fiction/horror short revolving on a cursed sexual attribute that turns three inhabitants of a caravan park into bloodthirsty maniacs. "Vibroboy" is not your usual superhero, but a depraved Aztec God who enjoys physically pleasuring people to death. This short movie by Jan Kounen ("Dobermann") is comical despite its dark and grim photography. The humor is also very politically incorrect, if you ask me, with actors turning into life-size vibrators and such. The filming location is excellently trashy and the 3 actors (1 female and 2 males) are clearly very dedicated to help Jan Kounen in making this movie a curious cult-short. Move over, overrated Japanese Iron Man, there's a new absurd superhero in town!
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10/10
Genius
mrdonleone19 September 2019
It doesn't happen often that a perfect movie gets made, but exceptions do exist; and I'm happy to say that Vibroboy was one of those cases. Everything about this film is fast, gory, swinging,funny,flashy and most of all intruiging. I'll never forget this genius pearl of filmstock.
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10/10
Another cult Movie/short of Jan Kounen!
buzzy_bob31 October 2021
Another cult Movie/short of Jan Kounen!

A must see for any fan of art strange cinema. It's an over the top short, very fast pace, creative with an extraordinary cinematography. The 3 actors are unbelievably good and committed.

Be warned, it's as weird as it can get.
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