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All That Baz

Bran Nue Dae
Certifiably Aboriginal
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You loathed Baz Luhrmann’s sweeping epic Australia.  We know you did, so don’t lie.  We didn’t.  Maybe you have no sense of pomp and circumference, or maybe 165 minutes was juss 164 minutes too much of Baz-outback-wardness for you to take.  Your remedy is the lower-keyed, lower-budgeted, lower-running-timed and high on everything else Bran Nue Dae (that’s ‘Brand New Day’ for those who aren’t ewesed to musspellinngs)

At first, and hactually for quite a long while during, we weren’t really taking to the hammily charmed story of an aborigine boy (Rocky McKenzie)’s quest to return to his unrequited love (Jessica Mauboy)’s side, before a greasy rocker (Dan Sultan) gets his paws all over her.  A ‘wild’ roadtrip adventure ensues, with two ‘wacky’ hippies (‘Missy’ Higgins & Tom Budge) and a ‘wily’ Australian version of Ben Vereen (Ernie Dingo) along for the ride, while they’re all being chased around by the boy’s over-caring preacher man (Geoffrey Rush). Usually it’s the journey that makes the grade, and the destination a disappointment, but in Rachel Perkins‘ fun flick, the opposite is true, and by the end, you’ll be bursting into song along with the chorus too

Mauboy O’BOY!: Jessica Mauboy’s got sum killer eyes and some damn killah thighs.  who said you had to be a skinny jinny to get yer passport stamped in Thighland?

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Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Bran Nue Dae sings a happy song this Friday in NY/LA only and elsewhere elsewhen

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

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