All Men Are Liars

Funny movie with many underrated performances. Twelfth Night meets small town Australia. Not your standard formula boy meets girl teen movie. The actors chosen to play the towns folk look like could be actual locals. The actors are not the pretty faces which we see in American teen movies.

One of the best Australian comedy films ever. It's not just funny, it appeals to the heart as well;and not in a soppy way. The family setting is great as is the rural North Queensland atmosphere. Starring Toni Pearen ( Funniest Home Videos), David Price (tv stuff) and John Jarratt (Australia, Blue Heelers, Wolf Creek among others) the story has a pace to it that keeps building and changing in unexpected directions. It is a sister piece to that Australian hit Priscilla Queen of the Desert as it also involves a cross-dressing theme in rural Australia, but for my money the plot here is far more interesting and developed. It has the sleeper quality of Crackers and is far more entertaining than a lot of those pretentious Australian movies like Little Fish, Candy and Somersault. Get a look at it!

This flick was pretty good. It's light hearted and simple. It has a bit of fun while trying to re-arrange some of the sexual stereotypes which can be found some places in rural Australia. It kept me interested with its simplicity and kept a good consistency in its comic approach. It's the sort of movie I could watch a few times and not get completely sick of. Mainly because the characters and the presentation are quite endearing in their beauty...but that's probably a drawback for some of you. Even if you don't like the cutesie presentation of this flick it may still be worth it if you would like to watch people play around with sexual stereotypes in a rural Australian setting.

I have been looking for off-beat movies and I think I found a gem in this one. We laughed through the whole movie. Was it a great, meaningful movie..no, but I don't believe it was meant to be. It was, however, an extremely funny movie. We kept wondering if these people could ever look normal when not on the set. I really loved the Elvis guy! He is portrayed just like any typical male, crying for his wife yet still trying to make it with someone else. Then you have Irene, the long-suffering wife, who still loves him after all he's done. Throw in two children and you have the makings of an everyday family here in the States. Maybe what made it funny for us was watching it for the first time in 2007.

I don't know why, but this film didn't live up my expectations. I didn't really know the story that well, and saw the film for John Jarratt, the real star, while I liked Price, and eye candy Toni Pearen, who wasn't that bad, but really carried a subtle sexiness, I really liked. I guess I've seen enough of films, where guys, get dressed up in lingerie (flick eyes away, sickening moment, honestly) and reality check, please, you would of made this chick as a guy, right away, especially when his man tone went off, instead of a girls in some parts. Rocker, Jarratt, sells wifee's piano, and she takes off. To earn some moolah, to pay for it, to get it back, so it gets wifee back, the older son (Price) dons a wig and puts on girl wear, and joins a girl band, who have just entered town. He falls for singer, sexy Pearen, who unwares he's a guy, where what follows is cliché'd. Look, this is a good hearted film, and it's a cute film, but there are just too many films like this. It has a lot of situations, and impasses, but I've seen it before, and there are some really classic, and amusing moments, one line, spoken with venom Pearen about guy's lying, while, sitting next to Price, is gold. I guess, I was expecting a much more happening film, one more livelier, and the not badly made film, sadly walks a couple of dull steps. I didn't expect it to be set in the country, which was really part of the cliché'd, seen it all before scene. Jarrett and cute Pearen, are the only the best things about it. Soundtrack is awesome, as is Pearen's song.