Harmontown

| Release Date: October 3, 2014

6.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Ratings

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TheDRauchNov 10, 2014

If you have heard of Dan Harmon and are a fan of Community, this doc will prove more tolerable for you than the average viewer. I would be hard pressed to find anything artistically groundbreaking or thematically substantial in this. As aIf you have heard of Dan Harmon and are a fan of Community, this doc will prove more tolerable for you than the average viewer. I would be hard pressed to find anything artistically groundbreaking or thematically substantial in this. As a huge fan of Community, I took great delight in just watching Dan Harmon do his thing. However, this bias cannot be disregarded as anything but bias. Out of the mindset of a Harmonian convert, Harmontown is nothing more than a fan-service indulgence doubling as a tour documentary. We have this shoe-horned message about unifying outcasts and 'nerds' by inducting them into this kind of . . . well . . . COMMUNITY, but it all feels forced and is really heavy handed. We already know that Harmontown is a strong and loving group of fanboys and gals, we have evidence of that in the way the audience interacts with Dan during his shows. By just witnessing his podcasts (easily the most engaging portions of the film) this comes across, but the film indulges so much more than is necessary in pushing this theme of the unity of strangers over one man's work that it can be a bit gag-inducing at times. There isn't much insight gained on Dan Harmon the man or the artist that we already didn't know. For someone who doesn't know who Dan is, this isn't the best introduction to his work. All-said, this is fairly entertaining and there are some legitimate moments of hilarity that ensue during the podcasts, from drunk-off-moonshine rants to some gleefully geeky rounds of Dungeons & Dragons, but there isn't much more than that to check out here.… Expand

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