Inclubabu
Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
asdmuzak
If you were born like me in 73 you'll love this film.
From the evel knievel stunt kid to the fondue, it's all that was oz in the late 70's.
Hell we even had the same pool.
I laughed my head off.
Even the swinging bit was spot on for the time with all the parents getting pissed up and having a crack at the neighbours wife.lol
The mo's are spot on and the clothes are like looking at photo's of my parents.
Good to see the political correct 2000's didn't come into the making of this film, This is how it was back then, if you didn't do as your told you got a wack.
I'm all the better for it and it was a better Australia than the nanny state we live in now, take a ride down memory lane and relive the golden years of Oz.
Boyd
Having just seen Deadpool 2, which is such a letdown after the first one, I cannot understand how this is getting such bad reviews ... Its bright, colourful and laugh out loud funny ... If you grew up in a seaside community in the 70s its a must ... If you like 70s Australian cinema its a must ... If you like camp, daft as a brush comedies its a must ... Its not trying to be a masterpiece ... Its just a funny, but sharp, pastiche of cliched 70s Australia ... And gord did those cliches really exist ... Give it a go ... It made me laugh out loud ... A lot :)))
LouieInLove
I enjoyed it. This is a caricature look at the world before health & safety & PC fascism; where victims were just soft & folk simply had to get on with it. Yes, there were casualties, but these times were free of knowing mass uncensored judgement from a glance at a phone. This was a more innocent & less paranoid time - definitely a little more dangerous & fun.All the actors did a good job.
cbrleah
As much as this movie looked like a solid offering filled with laughs and an all star cast it ultimately ends up a complete mess of story lines and underdeveloped characters. It's filled with needless cutbacks that deliver nothing and scenes that should have been left on the cutting room floor. A lot of scenes I just wondered whether the director was doing favours for mates who wanted a small speaking role to camera. While non linear story arcs are fantastic this one wasn't executed well and cut back and forth so many times whatever the story line is meant to be is not evident. What was the main plot line? Was it the whale, the swinging session, the young girl who would seem to be the focus of much of the movie but of whom we learn almost nothing, or the childhood movie that is apparently being made throughout the film? None of these otherwise acceptable plot lines went anywhere. The parents are all hideous people except maybe Jeremy Sims' character but again there's no real purpose or explanation to any of their motivations. Kylie is wasted in her role of a blubbering mess that completely unexplored. The teenage girl is written off as he street 'bike' and the other children engage in bratty behaviour with a side of animal cruelty. I was genuinely excited to see Julian McMahon in an Australian movie and really thought this would be an absolute treat but it just failed miserably. I gave it 4 stars but even that's probably too generous.
