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Kenny (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:18
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.5/10
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:... [More]
Starring: Clayton Jacobson, Travis Golland, Chris Davis, Alf Scerri
Director: Clayton Jacobson
Reviews for Kenny
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Funny enough to give scatology a good name. Full Review |
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 3/5 |
Old-fashioned toilet humour gets a postmodern makeover in this laconic Australian mockumentary about a mobile toilet installer. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Charming comedy with a strong script and a delightful central performance from Shane Jacobson. Full Review |
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Kenny is the genuine article. Full Review |
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B+ |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Kenny is always there in an instant with a philosophical quip and a stoic resolution. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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B |
The film's strongest asset is Shane Clayton, whose Kenny is the funniest thing to come out of Australia since Crocodile Dundee. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Funny, accessible and ultimately a good time. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Don't worry, though; Kenny isn't so realistic that you can smell it. Full Review |
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Crude (in every sense) but surprisingly charming. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A hit and prize winner in Australia, Kenny has the power to charm, no matter which way the water swirls. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The perfect antidote to any disappointing summer blockbuster. Full Review |
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