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Oliver M Hey Kylie is just amazing So full on and over the top Cartoon and Cutting It's actually full on and overload and true Cheap Baz but hitting all the right marks Kylie you really showed something else Bless You Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Enjoying it (I'm still watching as I write this) captures much of life in the 70's, maybe all, love seeing the drink, cigs, lollies, clothes, furniture, food, shearing the music even if a bit changed, like Gary Glitters music, it's over the top, stupid, but done tongue in cheek and I like/love it !! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Australia, 1975. The beach suburb of Nobbys Beach is a place that revolves around surf mats, baby oil, boxed wine and the new miracle of Kentucky Fried Chicken. 14 year-old Jeff tries to find his feet in a world changing faster than his hormones, and deal with his crush on shy and sensitive girl-next-door Melly. When the beach town suddenly hits the spotlight after the body of a 200-ton whale is washed ashore, Jeff and Melly think it's the biggest thing that ever happened in their lives. Meanwhile, their eccentric parents are catching up with the sexual revolution that has also washed up on Australia's beaches. And just like the decaying whale, it's all about to go spectacularly wrong... Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus reads: "Swinging Safari gathers an entertaining ensemble to offer audiences a messy yet ultimately endearing comedy rich with period detail." "Swinging Safari" is nicely shot with a nice ensemble containing of Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue, Julian McMahon etc. But, ultimately I don´t understand the film itself since it´s a mess with halfbaked stereotypical characters and a scenestructure that is all over the place. The editing makes your head almost explode as well and it´s simply not funny. Having lived in Australia, I will always support the Australian movieindustry, but this one is a hit and a miss. I reckon "Swinging Safari" was inspired by Wes Anderson, but it´s not even close of being something of a Wes Anderson film. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member The exploding whale was a viral video that took the world by storm 10 years before this movie was made. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member This coming of age story is flat out hilarious. It works the 70's suburban setting hard. The Austrailian suburban experience was apparently remarkably similar to the Californian experience in that decade. The only real difference is the Austrailian accents and vernacular, which makes this even funnier. Elliot makes the most of every opportunity to go too far in every scene. If you want a lesson in how to raise your kids in the most un-PC way possible, this is the movie for you. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Despite my name, I grew up in Sydney in the seventies, I'm Anglo-Saxon and no mistaking this movie was a ripper for me for nostalgic reasons. I mean every few seconds I was being bombarded with images and sounds which tore my heart out, reminding me and even titillated my other senses from some of my most sacred memories. Surprising how clunky some of it was when almost as much was so pure I felt like someone was watching over my shoulder as a kid after all. I suspect this will not reverberate with other Western audiences as much because what it depicts above all is a unique Australian experience which I know has not permeated the rest of the far-flung European Empire. This is much more appealing to me as a non-LGBTQ bloke than Priscilla. By the way the amount of re-writing I had to do to get this review past the automatic LGBTQ defending censorship was enough to make me even more hostile to these lifestyle CHOICES. Cue nasty angry face! Aussies will continue to call F..s for fa.s as we did even when the issue was finished in the seventies. Back then f... were not such thin-skinned wombats! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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