Barry McKenzie Holds His Own Reviews

Boorish, boozy, sexy, silly, inane, vulgar, crude, and, in the end, funny sequel to THE ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE. The film's filled with many, many Australian expressions that will mean absolutely nothing to anyone who hasn't spent time in a billabong or under a wallaroo. Crocker and Humphries, in many roles, headline this fun tribute to an Australian abroad, based on the adult comic strip that appeared in the British journal, Private Eye. Nothing and no one is safe from the eye of Beresford who directed and cowrote the script with Humphries. Forget the plot--the sight gags are hysterical, like Crocker (as Reverend Ken McKenzie) making a crucifix out of beer cans and holding it up in front of Pleasence (as Count Plasma, the foppish vampire), who promptly disintegrates into a skeleton. The film includes many British supporting players---Trinder, Le Mesurier, Kinnear, et al. They should put out a listener's guide to the Aussie expressions. How in the world is anyone going to know that "Brewer's Droop" means the inability to gain and/or sustain sexual potency? Worth seeing if you take someone from Melbourne or Sydney along to act as an interpreter.