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Young Australian, Barry McKenzie, travels to England with his Aunt Edna after his father dies and a request is revealed in his will.
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| User ReviewAdam BRude, stereotypical - but bloody hilarious. Barry Crocker's Mckenzie is a great comedy character who lampoons the Australian pom-hating Fosters swigging sexist. The film intoroduced many great sayings into the English lexicon 'one-eyed trouser snake' etc. Hilarious stuff - look out also for Spike Milligan and Peter Cook. |
| User ReviewPrivate UA true-blue favourite. The best Barrys in showbiz! |
| User ReviewAlexThis a hilarious film that really identifies the true Australian. This is my favourite Australian movie and it is a must see for any Aussie. |
| User Reviewgary twow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch...its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie....i think that julie covington, judith furse, jenny tomasin, christopher malcolm, dennis price, dick bentley, barry humphries, barry crocker, avice landone play good roles/parts thorughout this movie.....i think that the director of this cult/classics/drama/comedy movie had done a great job of directing this movie as you never know what 2 expect thorughout this movie...its a brilliant cult movie 2 watch with a good cast throughout this movie |
| User ReviewMark TI should first warn you that this is full of tasteless, ribald Australian humour, but nevertheless it is clever in it's own way and riotously funny in parts. It's a fruitier forerunner of Crocodile Dundee, about a naive young Australian lad who goes to London, where in true Australia style, he spends it with other beer-swilling Aussie and gets into a whole lot of interesting and improbable scrapes. You will learn more expressions than you thought ever possible to say "going to the toilet" and "sexual intercourse". It's Australians taking the piss out of themselves which is great. |
| User ReviewAlex D" My mouths as dry as a dead dingo's donger" " My mouths as dry as a medieval monks manuscript" Pommy bastards |
| User ReviewSonia JThough ripe with sterotyping and lameass humour,you can't help but forgive this film because it never takes itself too seriously. |
| User ReviewIain San antiquated but important piece of Australian kitch, rude, chaotic, obnoxius and a silly old laugh of true Ocker comedy. Will have you spouting euphumisms for peeing and vomiting in no time to the comforting strains of drag and lager |
| User ReviewMandy WThough ripe with sterotyping and lameass humour,you can't help but forgive this film because it never takes itself too seriously. |
| User ReviewStuart KG'Day! Barry Humphries' boorish, loudmouth creation from Private Eye magazine got his own big screen adventure. Nearly 40 years on, it's dated alot, and the humour was quite near-the-knuckle for it's time, but it's a fun timepiece while it lasts. It begins in Sydney, where Aussie Barry McKenzie (Barry Crocker) receives an inheritance, and is to go to England to further his cultural education, but Barry cannot stand the Pommies. :P He goes with his auntie, Edna Everage (Barry Humphries :P), he ends up living in a sort of ghetto of Aussies in Earl's Court, London. He gets ripped off by officials, he gets drunk frequently, he gets insulted by the higher classes, and exploited by a couple of hippie rockers who want him for his crass Aussie folk songs, then to top it off, he drops his strides on the BBC!! Alot of the humour doesn't work today, but it does have it's moments, the songs are rude and very funny, and it has a good supporting cast including Peter Cook, Dennis Price, Willie Rushton and Spike Milligan!! It's director was one Bruce Beresford, who later did Driving Miss Daisy (1989), who'd have guessed he'd go all the way from that?? :P |