I recently saw this movie at a free preview screening and thank God it was free, otherwise I would have been an angry patron demanding my ticket money back.
Yet another film in the line of bad movies to come out of Australia, this movie really has a non-existent plot and a lot of bad actors. The only actor who has any real talent here is Ben Mendelsohn and unfortunately, he had nothing to work with here.
As is the problem with a lot of Australian movies, the characters are based on stereotypes. The male is always portrayed as a footy-loving beer-can-guzzling know-it-all Ocker and the female is always some backwards curlers-in-her-air "pet/lovey" speaking moron.
The very thin plot is basically about Ben Mendelsohn playing a former football star who returns home to his "dysfunctional Aussie family" and tries to win a girl's heart who he left behind three years ago and who is also just happening to get married to someone else.
No points awarded for anyone who has guessed how the movie ends.
As an Australian, I found this movie very offensive as I did with "The Dish". Internationally, people see Australians as a bunch of "colourful-minded" lunatics and after seeing this movie - can you really blame them?
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Yet another film in the line of bad movies to come out of Australia, this movie really has a non-existent plot and a lot of bad actors. The only actor who has any real talent here is Ben Mendelsohn and unfortunately, he had nothing to work with here.
As is the problem with a lot of Australian movies, the characters are based on stereotypes. The male is always portrayed as a footy-loving beer-can-guzzling know-it-all Ocker and the female is always some backwards curlers-in-her-air "pet/lovey" speaking moron.
The very thin plot is basically about Ben Mendelsohn playing a former football star who returns home to his "dysfunctional Aussie family" and tries to win a girl's heart who he left behind three years ago and who is also just happening to get married to someone else.
No points awarded for anyone who has guessed how the movie ends.
As an Australian, I found this movie very offensive as I did with "The Dish". Internationally, people see Australians as a bunch of "colourful-minded" lunatics and after seeing this movie - can you really blame them?
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