I use the phrase “makes movies’ very loosely here. You’ll understand more if you watch the trailer above.

Jack Black returns to his old crazy self in the new comedy called “Be Kind, Rewind” which opens in theaters on January 25th, 2008.

He stars as a man who suddenly has a magnetic brain, which ends up erasing all the VHS tapes in the local video store run by his friend, Mos Def. This hurts the store’s most loyal customer, an elderly woman possibly suffering from dementia.

So what do you do? Purchase new ones? Get DVDs instead?

Nope, if you are Jack Black and Mos Def, you set out to remake all the movies yourself and record them back to the erased video tapes. A few of the titles they redo include Back to the Future, the Lion King, Robocop and Ghostbusters.

The movie is directed by Michel Gondry, the guy who also did “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind“, one of my all-time favorite films.