RyothChatty ridiculous rating

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

rojda-259-609864 It is true or not true you love it or not! No matter for me this movie Australian best mix movies I love to watch every single character and love soo much! I expect more season.! Why you are upset? You should be upset other things not the much beautiful series everyone play outstanding good. I want it back. My family asking when start again habibs family...

amelesdad I know that if you watch this with your built in prejudices and looking for a problem you'll hate it. Just open your mind and watch and listen as they tell you the truth about the human condition. All the labels such as "Lebanese" "Muslim" "Islamic" are irrelevant. This is about people. The kids are who they are, the adults are who they are - all have the same ambitions, pretensions and foibles as everyone else in the world. At least channel 9 has the balls to make something. F*%$ the PC bull and open your eyes to reality. Without the pushing of boundaries there is no exploration of people. As a first generation British Pakistani Muslim I have seen the same growth of the community here which is being mimicked all across the world in migrant communities. There are the hard workers, then there are the shirkers. The gang culture which is laughable as it is based upon the African Americans who did suffer oppression and there backlash is real. Anyone who chooses to come here cannot be upset when some people don't want them there. The majority of the time people left their homelands because some people didn't want them there. Enough rambling - suffice to say the show is true to its roots and should be lauded rather than vilified.

Ve111 I went in thinking the show might be on the same humor palate as pizza and swift n' shift, how wrong I was. The characters, the dialogue, the acting, it was all extremely cheesy. The story lines are forced and unrealistic, the dialogue is stiff. I felt I was watching the O.C for a sec when -spoiler alert- the younger son and neighbor's's daughter flirt. I understand some people wanting a more PG rated series about mediterranean/middle eastern culture, but this just feels so fake. No real depth - and it may have something to do with the whole -spoiler alert- hillbillies in beverly hills vibe, but mainly it's bad dialogue and bad acting. Watch it and make up your mind.

Vito Doria "Here Come the Habibs!" is not the perfect show but it has the potential to be one the best Australian sitcoms in years.Since "Acropolis Now" finishing airing in 1992, there has not been a great ethnic Australian comedy on television. "Pizza" was on SBS in the 2000s but that show was too crass and stereotypical for mainstream audiences.Rob Shehadie and Tahir Bilgic, who were in "Pizza", are the creators of "Here Come the Habibs!" and the show is more light-hearted than the SBS sitcom. The show could be labelled as a Lebanese-Australian "Beverly Hillbillies" but it is more than that.There are clear differences between the Anglo-Celtic Australian O'Neill family and the Lebanese Australian Habib family but these differences give the show its spark.Olivia O'Neill is the bigoted matriarch who wants the Habibs out of the affluent Sydney suburb of Vaucluse while her neurotic husband Jack is the one trying to be the peacemaker.Fou Fou is the serious patriarch of the Habib family who wants the best for his kids and Mariam is the protective but pleasant mother and she also the antithesis of Olivia.Toufic and Layla provide most of the program's "dumb humour", especially the former with his outrageous schemes.Elias is the youngest of the Habib children. He is perhaps the most of plain of the characters, as well as Madison who is the only child of the O'Neills. Despite this, Elias and Madison provide the show with its most subtle moments.This comedy brings more awareness of Lebanese culture that has not been seen a lot on Australian television before. While Olivia has a stereotypical view of her neighbours, the story lines that unfold show that the stereotypes aren't as accurate as she makes them out to be. "Here Come the Habibs" doesn't stay true to the stereotypes. It plays with them and pokes fun at them. The mannerisms of the characters as well as the contrasting lifestyles and attitudes make the show tick.