The BBQ

The son asks about Captain Cooks "ancestors " in Australia.

I watched the BBQ today and thought that it was a very funny movie , along with the Castle.

This is not a movie that is going to stress you intellectually. It's a bit of light-hearted and unpretentious Australian fun. The characters are a bit cookie cut and some of the acting is not Oscar award stuff but it does poke a bit of fun at a national passion and some of the pretentiousness of food preparations in today's super chef world. I didn't go expecting much but I enjoyed it for what it was. I think some of the critics who panned it were over-reading the point of the movie. That said I didn't appreciate the blatant advertising of stores and products in it though I recognise this is par for the course in many movies today.

This is just a light hearted feel good Australian film, and it succeeds in that genre. Don't expect anything more and just treat the movie for what it is. Australian movies have a particular style and content. So I'm sorry to say that if you don't understand it or are not Australian you just won't get it.

The BBQ offers a great laugh and escape into a nice little story. It was nice to take my nephew to a film that didn't involve sex violence or swearing. Unlike a couple of narcissistic egotistical moronic critics who obviously missed the point - this film does not take its self seriously it provides a great 90 minutes of fun and escapism.