Bro'Town

Bro'town was over-hyped and over advertised. Sure, there are certain areas where it would provoke a small giggle from me, but mostly I found the humor immature and dry. I do however, applaud the writers for helping us to try and laugh at the stereotypes we give each other. Advertising it as New Zealands own SouthPark?.........no, not even close. Unfortunately, most non New Zealanders would not get this at all. It has many Polynesian themes that even some New Zealanders would not understand either. Most episodes seemed to have been rushed and not thought out well at all. On a positive note, I liked the theme music, nice bass line.

Not good for kids or adults. Might go down well with doped up teenagers or the mentally retarded.

This show tops most of the American and Australian TV output of recent years. The animation is rather uninspired but that's because the animation industry in New Zealand is (according to the Naked Samoans) only just getting off the ground. And indeed, because of this, this show will probably later on be hailed as a landmark in NZ television history. However, the Naked Samoans excel in coming up with clever and meaningful story lines with spiritual significance, as well as writing blisteringly funny one-liners ("Is he gonna live, doctor? I have to give him a hiding for getting run over!"). They have also created extremely lovable characters who, while unashamedly stereotypical (this is actually what make it so easy to relate to anyway), are all given specific episodes in which they feature more than the others (think the flashback episodes in "Lost"), which allows them to be developed in greater detail. These are kids you could find in any school in the world. There's Valea, the leader of the pack who loves nothing more than picking up hot chicks; his twin brother Vale, the quiet and conscientious one who keeps the peace; Sione, the smooth ladies' man who constantly gets stuck in humiliating situations, mostly in front of girls; Jeff da Maori, the Bob Marley-idolizing Maori who was fathered by eight different men; and Mack, the chubby and clearly gay one the gang use to get out of trouble. It's very easy to argue that with the central group of boys it tips its hat to South Park, but that show gets laughs from its obscenities. bro'Town gets laughs purely from its wisdom and heart. I actually hope it doesn't air in the US, because if it does the Americans will buy the rights to it, receive artistic control over it, and in doing so, Americanise it, and commercialise it. I love it just the way it is. And anytime you've got Helen Clark and Russell Crowe on your side, you know you've got something special. And lastly, how many animated shows from ANY era or country can you think of which had some sort of spiritual moral interwoven into each episode?

MORNINGSIDE 4 LIFE INDEED, BRO!!!!!!

I'm gonna go against most of the reviews on here and say that I love this show. Yeah it's a bit crude but I love it cause of that. I don't watch this show to be intellectual, I watch it for a good laugh and for a release as it were.

I was told about this show by my brother and I though looks like I'll have to have a look at it.

My favourite quote is the one about their dad wanting to watch his pornos in peace. I had to have it explained to me what the whole 8 Dads things was all about though with the Jeff da Maori character.

It amazed me too the number of celebrities they got on this show even the NZ PM. I couldn't imagine little Johnny Howard doing a cartoon here that's for sure.

For whatever odd reason, when I moved to southern California from Colorado as a young man, a majority of my friends and family wound up being Samoan. This is how I was first exposed to bro'Town months ago. Having said that, you really don't need to know much about Samoans ,or New Zealand for that matter, to "get it". In fact, if anything it is the Kiwi accent that requires a little hard listening at times, but well worth it. The humor is exactly what you would expect from 5 pre-pubescent (4 Samoan and 1 Maori) boys, yet is broad and common enough for any adult who actually had a childhood (and still has a sense of humor).

bro'Town is silly, irreverent, topical, politically sharp and heart-felt at times, like many of its contemporaries (South Park, Family Guy, The Boondocks etc...) I understand that bro'Town isn't "Waiting for Godot" and I have a hard time believing that the Naked Samoans are trying to emulate Samuel Beckett when writing. But for what it is, purely crafted ½ hour adult pop-culture cartoon comedies for 18-30yo males, it is sublime. My friends and I are still quoting Jeff da Maori, yet we somehow still manage to read books with big words. Hmmmmm.

I am anxiously waiting for season 3 at this moment.

Morningside for LIFE!

i dunno what this other fulla is on, but all i can say is, "Not Even...Ow!!!!".

Bro town is a timely and pertinent look at the cultural diversity that New Zealand can now finally boast after years of stumbling around in a pseudo-bi-cultural daze.I believe kiwi's are ready to see themselves on screen as they are, and to laugh about it. Sure there are stereotypes present in this show, but that's what makes it so funny. No-one is spared, Maori, Pakeha, Islanders, South Africans, Indians and more are satirised expertly. and as an educated Pakeha, i can say - I laughed. This show is topical - focusing on issues currently causing debate in NZ like CYFS, gambling and racial discrimination.

or as JC puts it best - MARVELLOUS!

After two excellent series i look forward to many more.

MORNINGSIDE FOR LIFE!!