“It’s a good thing that kids aren’t allowed into the show.”
But, you know, even though I expected to hate this movie, I didn’t. It’s funny in spots, so weird in others, and downright sick at one point that I suggest you keep your eyes off the screen. You know what’s coming, anyway.
The film stars Peter Cook, Spike Milligan, Dick Bentley (not much of it), Paul Bertram, Mary Ann Severn, Maria O’Brien, and Dennis Price.
Directed by Bruce Beresford, produced by Philip Adams, the film has a crack in everyone. He sets off in Aussies and Poms, and sends out the “iconic” of the alternate society. (Cop it!)
Anyway, you get some laughs from it, though, as the filmmakers try to be clever, and fall back on a few references to Radclyffe Hall and Stockhausen, thinking we’ll never know, whether these peanuts are dead or alive. We do.
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With its rudeness and humor (a word that Aunt Edna would use), the movie sometimes comes with ‘daring’. So instead of giving her a whole bunch of clowns, I’ll just hand one over to Barry Humphries, and give a consolation prize out of a plate of lamingtons to fellow Bazza. The rest of the splint can contain gifts of meat extract and mouthwash.
Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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