Crackers

From start to finish hilarious Aussie Christmas fun. Dysfunctional family at their best. Loved in 1998 and 2021.

This tale of a dysfunctional family coming together to share the Christmas spirit is fantastically funny and very heart rending at the same time. It has a message and brings it across well without getting mawkishly sentimental. The humour is very 'pi**take' Australlian but most people will get the message. Warren Mitchell is superb in his role and the supporting cast are all good. You'll laugh and cry and go off with sore stomach muscles. Watch out for the video camera holiday footage from the chookshed!

I first saw this movie on a long distance coach trip to spend Christmas with my partner's dysfunctional family, which made it all the funnier!

23 years on I just watched Crackers for the first time and absolutely Cracked up on numerous occasions. Not only was it funny it's a great reflection on how life was here in Aussie. It took me back to my childhood and the many Christmas's were family got together and despite our differences we all some how managed to get on.

23 years too late but well done to all those involved in making this great movie.

Beautiful story of young boys life in a dysfunctional family, with stubborn old grandparents, a pet loyal bantam rooster, affairs, adult stubbornness, elderly members, loss of father, Xmas grief and drinking stressors, humour and Australian ocean. The characters are believable. I liked the fact it's from the twelve 12 year olds point of view and he gets to experience the dysfunction of his grandparents his grandfather he's very bullying his cousin and brother he also bully him and a friendly elderly family relative he's very kind and help him build a boat together. It also has a cute rooster. And some other characters which are very humorous and a likeable character.

I really wanted to like this movie, I love Australian Indie flicks. But honestly, it's not that funny. If you like American in-your-face and crude humour, then you might like this.

There's a lot of constant camera angle changes to go along with the constant 'action scenes'. It's likely to induce seizures in some people. Some of the action in the movie doesn't even ave any purpose or sense - and as a result, character development is slow and poor. Some of the characters are even likeable and the acting itself is great, but it's like the writers of the movie were trying way too hard to be funny and 'out there'.