The perfect antidote to any disappointing summer blockbuster.
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01/03/08
Kenny (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 10 Fresh: 10 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Theatrical Release: 28-09-2007
Synopsis: Australia’s Surprise Hit of 2006 – with a growing Box Office of $7.7M, Winner of multiple Industry, Critics, and Audience Awards including Best Feature, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay Synopsis: From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Clayton Jacobson, Travis Golland, Chris Davis, Alf Scerri, Hayley Preusker
Reviews
1 - 10 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Despite all the wild and icky antics, this is in no way your typical gross-out. Because the spotlight is less on crude easy laughs, than a genuine feel for the Chaplinesque proletarian plight of a worker just trying to find dignity in an unfeeling world.
07/26/08
It's like an Aussie equivalent of The Foot Fist Way, shot quick and dirty, but coasting efficiently on the affable personalities of the performers and their characters. Sweet and amusing.
07/18/08
The Australian charmer Kenny, about a hard-working, jovial employee for a portable toilet company, is a low-key study of underdog pride rather than a Larry the Cable Guy bodily function jokefest.
07/18/08
Top Critic
A hit and prize winner in Australia, Kenny has the power to charm, no matter which way the water swirls.
07/17/08
I sense that the Jacobson brothers set out to make a simple little comedy. But how grand it must be for them to see the humanity of their fresh, inventive film rising to the level of its humor.
06/21/08
The result is a minor masterpiece of tone in Kenny's portrayal of a character that is absurd, guileless and shrewd at the same time.
04/04/08
Waste is a terrible thing to mind -- unless you are port-a-potty installer Kenny Smyth, the unlikely hero of a hilarious and fresh (figuratively speaking, of course) comedy from Down Under.
04/04/08
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