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Kenny (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:18
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.5/10
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude content, language and partial nudity.
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jul 18, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Australia’s Surprise Hit of 2006 – with a growing Box Office of $7.7M, Winner of multiple Industry, Critics, and Audience Awards including Best Feature, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay Synopsis:... Australia’s Surprise Hit of 2006 – with a growing Box Office of $7.7M, Winner of multiple Industry, Critics, and Audience Awards including Best Feature, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay Synopsis: From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Part philosopher, part comedian and all heart, Kenny is one of the cogs in society’s machinery; a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his faithful ‘Splashdown crew’. The film lifts the lid on one of Australia’s roughest diamonds Kenny as he juggles family tensions, fatherhood and sewage with charm, humor and unflinching dignity. --© Lightning Entertainment [More]
Starring: Clayton Jacobson, Travis Golland, Chris Davis, Alf Scerri
Starring: Clayton Jacobson, Travis Golland, Chris Davis, Alf Scerri, Hayley Preusker, Saxon Fuller, Thomas Uerata, Kevin 'The Captain' Roy Ogston, Glenn Preusker, Kevin Roy, Craig Carter, Pete Smith, Adrian Atkinson, Mark Robertson, Kevin 'Matey' Lee Ogston
Director: Clayton Jacobson
Director: Clayton Jacobson
Screenwriter: Clayton Jacobson, Shane Jacobson
Studio: Arcangelo Entertainment
Reviews for Kenny
Old-fashioned toilet humour gets a postmodern makeover in this laconic Australian mockumentary about a mobile toilet installer.
Charming comedy with a strong script and a delightful central performance from Shane Jacobson.
The result is a mockumentary that never mocks, but instead introduces us to a character we never stop rooting for and won't soon forget.
Kenny is always there in an instant with a philosophical quip and a stoic resolution.
The film's real accomplishment, in this era of masked superheroes, is making a paladin of a regular guy whose ethics we can all emulate.
The film's strongest asset is Shane Clayton, whose Kenny is the funniest thing to come out of Australia since Crocodile Dundee.
Despite all the wild and icky antics, this is in no way your typical gross-out. Because the spotlight is less on crude easy laughs, than a genuine feel for the Chaplinesque proletarian plight of a worker just trying to find dignity in an unfeeling world.
It's like an Aussie equivalent of The Foot Fist Way, shot quick and dirty, but coasting efficiently on the affable personalities of the performers and their characters. Sweet and amusing.
The Australian charmer Kenny, about a hard-working, jovial employee for a portable toilet company, is a low-key study of underdog pride rather than a Larry the Cable Guy bodily function jokefest.
A hit and prize winner in Australia, Kenny has the power to charm, no matter which way the water swirls.
I sense that the Jacobson brothers set out to make a simple little comedy. But how grand it must be for them to see the humanity of their fresh, inventive film rising to the level of its humor.
The result is a minor masterpiece of tone in Kenny's portrayal of a character that is absurd, guileless and shrewd at the same time.
Waste is a terrible thing to mind -- unless you are port-a-potty installer Kenny Smyth, the unlikely hero of a hilarious and fresh (figuratively speaking, of course) comedy from Down Under.
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