jcurrie58

I'm completed addicted to this show and am only sorry it has ended its run here in the UK. I'm not Australian so maybe can't recognize all of the cultural points, but still find it amusing. It's not laugh out loud stuff, but I imagine that Australians can recognize the satirical observations more than anyone. I love the ever optimistic Kath and her dreadful wardrobe and the mind-bogglingly selfish Kim.

What I can't understand is, why are the Americans making their own version and not screening the original? Is it the accents? Are Americans not capable of understanding any accents other than their own? As Kath says, "look at May, Kim, look at May".

I saw this film the other day and I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of Streisand. Usually she over-dominates a film but here she is quite prepared to share the limelight with all the other actors. And not one person remarks that she is really beautiful! Even her legs and fingernails were less in evidence. Both she and Dustin Hoffman (who doesn't show enough of his comic talents) were hilarious as a couple who're still living in the 1970s.

I must say, though, I was disappointed in the performances of the other two actors, Robert de Niro and Blythe Danner. The latter was wasted and not given enough to do, and the former looks too grim and determined to have a lighter side. And how come their grandson still needs breastfeeding when he's clearly shown to have quite a few teeth? I'm not a mother but know perfectly well that infants are weaned after a few months. The whole storyline of the fake breast was dumb, to say the least.