Reviews

Look. I loved this movie as a kid. I still know every word of the song at the end. But I was a kid and I didn't know any better. While the joy in the underdog story is still here, the fact that there's a rape in this film overrides the narrative. Overall the treatment of women dates this significantly.

About as interesting as someone describing their dream in detail upon waking. Especially if that person is some random backpacker in a YMCA dorm.

Snoooooze. Couldn't get through first ep. It's like the most boring music video ever.

Not a dull moment in this. Fun. Low budget. Don't expect the fx of blockbusters. Do expect the ecstasy of Nic Cage at his pure best!!

If you think promising young woman is a work of genius then you won't get how brilliant this film is. PYW is a rich girl take on rape culture and feminism and is purely academic - non emotional. This film is the blueprint for several key elements to PYW. Mostly the pop like hyper colour aesthetic. With characters you will be challenged by. True depictions of rape and drug culture and a compelling story that doesn't pull any punches. It's uncompromising and has stayed with me in the years since I first watched it.

A work of art.

Watched this on a plane and still struggled even with the captive audience. Cute awkward situations do not make compelling story. I see positive reviews and that's great but how about we compare Australian shows to the best the world has to offer instead of just other underwhelming Australian shows....it's not enough to be heartwarming and relatable. How about compelling and AND funny. This is for millennials who like things to be nice....just nice. Does this show work internationally? Probs not.

Hard to root for or care about the protagonist when she is reactive and a walkover. Cute fun jokes are great but this is missing actual story. The absence of story is what makes this so Australian I guess. But please....this could have been fantastic. It has all the ingredients and the cast are wonderful too. Aaron Chen is brilliant. Leave the jokes to comedians and the screenwriting to screenwriters & our shows would be better for it.

Also - poor taste and just lame to kill a possum in a storyline. That was the final straw for me.

Consider it a personal sacrifice. I endured characters with no clear drive, a ridiculous world where 3 x 20 somethings live in a huge house on apparently one wage, no consequences for any characters actions - it was pretty much a bunch of 'funny' ideas for scenes cobbled together with a plot so loose you could see what was coming a mile off. Rik Brown, Laurence Leung & rest of supporting cast make the 3 central actors look bad because they can actually emote. Would it have been sooooo hard to teach the writers how to write a sitcom first? This could have been great.

When Mendo is underwhelming you know you have a problem. This doesn't translate well from the stage play and needed much more script development for it to be a decent film. I felt NOTHING. Aren't movies supposed to move you? The idea is excellent and protagonist is fantastic but the only reason I could keep watching was Toby Wallace who is knock out in his role. Warm and believable and vulnerable.

This was a fun ride! A genre piece that delivers on the most satisfying elements of genre, using the idiosyncratic landscape of the Australian desert as its backdrop - a delight to see on screen. Beautifully shot, the sparseness of the town against the richness of the red dirt leaves you wanting more. Jolene Anderson's performance is wonderful and the supporting cast imbues a steady naturalism that you don't normally get in sci-fi/alien flicks. I like it! A nice tense rumble in the stomach for the entirety as I wondered what would happen next. I realised afterwards that this was a female heavy cast and crew which adds to my appreciation.