Pretty Good

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

If you were born like me in 73 you'll love this film. From the evel knievel stunt kid to the fondue, it's all that was oz in the late 70's. Hell we even had the same pool. I laughed my head off. Even the swinging bit was spot on for the time with all the parents getting pissed up and having a crack at the neighbours wife.lol The mo's are spot on and the clothes are like looking at photo's of my parents. Good to see the political correct 2000's didn't come into the making of this film, This is how it was back then, if you didn't do as your told you got a wack. I'm all the better for it and it was a better Australia than the nanny state we live in now, take a ride down memory lane and relive the golden years of Oz.

Run, don't walk. This is a mystery. Easily the worst Australian movie of all time. This has no redeeming features whatsoever. I can't, for the life of me, even speculate why Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue etc agreed to be involved with this steaming pile of utter nonsense. I'm shattered. I could go on but ... there's that much wrong it's just not worth it. STAY AWAY

Energy abounds in this Aussie flick with lots of great set design and costumes to match and that's as far as it got for me. The rest was a bit of a dissapointment.Yes, I did expect a certain vulgarity to be present but some aspects of the narrative I just found just silly and at times plain stupid. Several minutes of voice over and fast cutting I found overwhelming at the start. There were some set pieces I found funny and was laughing along with the rest of the audience who were at times laughing more than I did, however it was these ridiculous parts of storyline that killed it for me. They kinda were absurd but the execution was where the word silly and stupid came in. Guy Pearce is always great but overall the cast's characters were not developed enough. Kylie Minogue and Jack Thompson's characters in particular were strangulated by the lack of thought given to them in the script. Mr Thompson's character just didn't go anywhere or vary. Not to blame him at all.....there was little heart in the characters overall. The sound mix however was well executed.

Surreal and hyper realistic, fast paced, challenging, wonderfully entertaining with a big BIG heart, irreverent without being malicious. I've watched Swinging Safari 3 times already and can't get enough of it. Films like this keeps bringing back to the movies.