Directed by Ben Steinbauer
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man".
위니베이고 맨, Winnebago Man: O Homem Mais Raivoso do Mundo
USA South by Southwest Film Festival 
Canada Hot Docs USANR Canada USA 
Director dude needs to shut the fuck up and let the man speak. I swear to god, it's the "Ben Steinbauer Show". In other words, it succeeds in being a film about a guy who really likes the Winnebago Man and decides to make a documentary about himself that Winnebago Man happens to be in.
It's so apparent that Jack Rebney is frustrated by how Ben interacts with him. Stop steering the subject!
ASS.
The documentary WINNEBAGO MAN is a fucking travesty.
Its director suffers from a case of what I like to call "Moore-itis", which is a syndrome that many recent documentarians have succumbed to.
"Moore-itis" is a disorder that causes a documentary filmmaker to focus their documentary mostly on themselves and their selfish desires, and not their subjects.
It is a deadly disease that destroys the film that follows, no matter how fascinating the subject of the documentary is.
WINNEBAGO MAN's director Ben Steinbauer ruins his own film with his sickness.
He begins by trying to track down his subject, who has deliberately stayed off the grid. He searches phone books, calls former employers and even hires a private investigator to find…
Winnebago Man is an uproarious/wincing/agitated documentary on the “angriest man alive.” Jack Rebney was a promotional video spokesperson whose 1989 video of unremitting expletive outtakes–getting pissed at flubs, mishaps and buzzing flies–made him a YouTube sensation many years later. Documentarian Ben Steunbauer at first explores the nature of why as a mass culture we love videos that humiliate its participants. Then he tracks down the real Rebney who in his elder years has become a mountain hermit, and from there arises several surprises of this man’s dual nature. Rebney, above all, believes the world has gone to hell and that America has become a moron culture. Out of that reaction, Steunbauer comes up with a strategy to present the youth…
I was going to add all of the accoutrements to this review, but then I said NO MORE!
Jack Rebney is a fascinating individual, but I couldn't help but feel that the filmmakers exploited him somewhat when they start prodding him along the narrative they want to show instead of what he wants to say.
jack rebney is a very interesting man and we got to see that, but the way the documentarian went about it was real garbage and was not adaptive in his filmmaking or interviewing, there was also a moment where jack had a ea sports sweatshirt? i'd like one
"My mind is just a piece of shit this morning..."
Yesterday I came across someone who had never heard of the Winnebago Man and had never seen the legendary video of 'The Angriest Man in the World.'
Needless to say, I was gobsmacked...and I immediately went about setting them straight.
And if you, dear reader, have never heard of the Winnebago Man, then I'm about to straighten your ass out too.
This documentary covers one man's search for answers concerning one of the funniest and most out-of-context viral videos ever to hit the interwebs.
The video in question is composed of the outtakes from a Winnebago sales package produced in the late '80s...
But it became so much more than…
Upon seeing there's the 7-minute short video (the entire reason for this documentary in the first place) also on letterboxd, I paused this documentary immediately to go watch that and then wrote my review. Easily 5★ material.
One of the people they interview is Ken Osborne, one of the writers of the hit cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. Even the director of Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Even the director of Rollergirls (haven't heard of that one). So I guess you can say the Winnebago Man, Jack Rebney, has influenced a lot of the media. Apparently the movie Surviving Christmas with Ben Affleck and an episode of 30 Rock with one of the Baldwins take a line from the Winnebago Man. I never…
finally. I now know what the director of Deuce Bigalow Male Jiggalo thinks about the Winnebago Man video
The Director of this Doc, Ben Steinbauer, actively ruins this for me. He never shuts up, clearly has an angle he wants to take his doc (against our boy Jack's will no less), and de-humorizes what otherwise could be a very funny exploration of a wild man who meme'd himself.
I respect that Ben Steinbauer kept in so much footage of him being flummoxed, outplayed, and humbled by Jack Rebney. Steinbauer's mid-00's reality TV "tell your own story" approach, his content-brained instinct to appeal to ego, was destined to fail on someone like Rebney. Made it more satisfying when Rebney's real friend helped him finally understand and enjoy where his fans were coming from at the Found Footage Festival.
