This wacky Australian comedy has to be seen to be believed. It's the story of a really dysfunctional family including a senile father sent to a rest home, his much younger wife, their two sons, one of whom is a drag queen, the other a failing business man trying to get money to restart his banana selling business, and how the two sons and a sexy nurse (whose name has probably been used by at least a dozen female impersonators) deal with the father when mother goes away with a neighbor he hates for a Hawaiian and Vegas Vacation, as well other assorted world locations. To keep father happy, they pretend to take him everywhere where their mother supposedly is, putting on shows so you get to see what's going on with mom while dad's thinking that mom is somewhere around. But there are a bunch of obstacles which threaten their scheme including a nosy neighbor and dad's discovery of the truth.
This is 90 minutes of sheer looniness at a frantic pace where you really never know what is going to happen next. The ingeniousness of it all makes the ridiculous plot line a lot easier to handle, and while it does get absurd here and there, and between the new sons and the nurse, they managed to give papa a good time. Every time you see father, sons and nurse they are in a series of wacky outfits (some extraordinarily creative and more than just a few quite eye raising) and that there is no way they could be able to get ahold of so quickly let alone afford them or find the opportunity to change. So you have to put aside any sense of how the heck is this all happening and just enjoy it for the farce that it is as well as put aside certain sensitivities. There's more than just a touch of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" in this film's plot line and design. We really don't get comedy this frenetic that often, and everybody is working really hard should keep the pace consistently speedy.
This is 90 minutes of sheer looniness at a frantic pace where you really never know what is going to happen next. The ingeniousness of it all makes the ridiculous plot line a lot easier to handle, and while it does get absurd here and there, and between the new sons and the nurse, they managed to give papa a good time. Every time you see father, sons and nurse they are in a series of wacky outfits (some extraordinarily creative and more than just a few quite eye raising) and that there is no way they could be able to get ahold of so quickly let alone afford them or find the opportunity to change. So you have to put aside any sense of how the heck is this all happening and just enjoy it for the farce that it is as well as put aside certain sensitivities. There's more than just a touch of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" in this film's plot line and design. We really don't get comedy this frenetic that often, and everybody is working really hard should keep the pace consistently speedy.
