Eddie and Charlie travel from Perth to Kalgoorlie in a road-trip and to find their cultural identity. On the way, they encounter various things that de-rail them on the trip.
THC-inspired tomfoolery serves as a smokescreen for all manner of countercultural observations on society and race... as Eddie and Charlie's road trip becomes a broader quest for their Aboriginal roots and identity in a postmodern Oz.
While the ebullient burst of rough-and-ready slapstick which delivers the message is far from a comic masterstroke, it does produce a rousing finish to this shambolic but irrepressibly good-natured film.
In a significant year for indigenous films, Stone Bros. plays the Joker's role: a bromance disguising the film's intent to prick consciences in the hardest writing form (comedy) to master.
Watch "Road Trip" or "Sex Drive" if you like a really good, funny "road" movie. This flick is just silly, stupid, frankly unfunny, and really utter nonsense.
April 5, 2010
John Woo
This is a mish mash and seem to tries to be 'Priscilla' in some ways but doesn't hit the right chord. I felt the racial and spiritual aspects of the film were overplayed with little depth and lacked poignancy. It didn't play the sociopathic card well enough in an ironic way (aka Beavis and Butthead) so feel all of the
things it could be it wasn't. I guess ultimately I was cheering for a film from an Aboriginal perspective that would make me laugh, take me on a journey and leave me thinking.... maybe next time
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