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ronniemcl
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Backyard Ashes (2013)
Subtle Spoof
24 January 2021 - 0 out of 1 users found this review helpful.
At first I thought this just another Aussie comedy in the style of The Castle or The Dish. About 20 minutes in I realised this is an Aussie spoof on Aussie comedies and a very clever one. I really hope that's what the director intended otherwise I'd be rating 2 stars.
All the cliches are there:
Sunny outdoor lifestyle with a huge barbeque run by blokes
Sheilas doing the catering for the players
Villain is a whingeing pom
Hero is working class man
Emphasis on mateship
The writer managed to include every phrase from the Aussie vernacular in the dialogue and the set designer and location manager did a great job of letting us know this was set in Albury. I lived there for a while and recognised everything about it. I'll watch again.
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