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While this new Aussie comedy isn't going to be up there with such recent classics as "Two Hands", "Priscilla" and "Muriel's Wedding", this is certainly one of the better efforts to come out of the country in recent times and is an impressive debut for both the actors & crew.

The comedy elements vary from the crude (there's a scene involving pink stuffed toys you'll probably never forget), the irreverent (a guy beats off a store robber with a vibrator), and the just darn clever (same guy gives a short talk about how his nose hair proves to be very effective at giving cunnilingus).

The characters are fun and interesting, in fact filmmaker wannabes are going to find they share some scary similarities to the main character, though its the setting which makes the movie. They've captured Sydney's Kings Cross district perfectly, no-one else has come this close to putting it accurately on celluloid - and it revels in that environment. The dialogue can be a little too smart for its own good at times, but 98% of the time its spot on.

The cast give good performances, Lewis & Smith will likely begin appearing in other stuff quite soon. Most of the guy characters are interesting ranging from Napier's slightly warped boyfriend to Smith's old school pal, but some of the female characters seem a little too abrasive. The script is solid and clever and the directing confident with the movie looking like it was done for far more than the two million dollar budget it had. Towards the end though it begins to lose a sense of direction as all the characters split up and go off on their own storylines. The Lewis/Tucker romance is good, especially in the early scenes, but sadly starts to fizzle out as things move closer between them.

Napier is stuck in a quite disappointing subplot chasing after a runaway kid, while Smith fares the best as he feels uncomfortable when he heads back to his origins in the Western Suburbs (people from that area may get a little annoyed as being portrayed as redneck alcoholics). Thankfully things pick up again in the last ten minutes to leave you satisfied but one hopes there'd been a little more oomph in that sagging middle-end area.

Nevertheless this has proven a solid year for Aussie film and while this won't likely get the profits of movies like "The Wog Boy", it treats its audience with more intelligence and proves more entertaining. - Garth Franklin. Score: 7 / 10