All Men Are Liars

I don't know why, but this film didn't live up my expectations. I didn't really know the story that well, and saw the film for John Jarratt, the real star, while I liked Price, and eye candy Toni Pearen, who wasn't that bad, but really carried a subtle sexiness, I really liked. I guess I've seen enough of films, where guys, get dressed up in lingerie (flick eyes away, sickening moment, honestly) and reality check, please, you would of made this chick as a guy, right away, especially when his man tone went off, instead of a girls in some parts. Rocker, Jarratt, sells wifee's piano, and she takes off. To earn some moolah, to pay for it, to get it back, so it gets wifee back, the older son (Price) dons a wig and puts on girl wear, and joins a girl band, who have just entered town. He falls for singer, sexy Pearen, who unwares he's a guy, where what follows is cliché'd. Look, this is a good hearted film, and it's a cute film, but there are just too many films like this. It has a lot of situations, and impasses, but I've seen it before, and there are some really classic, and amusing moments, one line, spoken with venom Pearen about guy's lying, while, sitting next to Price, is gold. I guess, I was expecting a much more happening film, one more livelier, and the not badly made film, sadly walks a couple of dull steps. I didn't expect it to be set in the country, which was really part of the cliché'd, seen it all before scene. Jarrett and cute Pearen, are the only the best things about it. Soundtrack is awesome, as is Pearen's song.

I have been looking for off-beat movies and I think I found a gem in this one. We laughed through the whole movie. Was it a great, meaningful movie..no, but I don't believe it was meant to be. It was, however, an extremely funny movie. We kept wondering if these people could ever look normal when not on the set. I really loved the Elvis guy! He is portrayed just like any typical male, crying for his wife yet still trying to make it with someone else. Then you have Irene, the long-suffering wife, who still loves him after all he's done. Throw in two children and you have the makings of an everyday family here in the States. Maybe what made it funny for us was watching it for the first time in 2007.

I tried to like this movie. The characters motivations made NO sense. This was more like a bad Three's Company episode. If all good looking lesbian rock bands were all so accepting, I'd be in one. The plot was hacked together, and definitely needed a re-write. I kept asking myself, why did that person just do that? Then I started wondering why the film makers bothered making this movie at all.

One of the best Australian comedy films ever. It's not just funny, it appeals to the heart as well;and not in a soppy way. The family setting is great as is the rural North Queensland atmosphere. Starring Toni Pearen ( Funniest Home Videos), David Price (tv stuff) and John Jarratt (Australia, Blue Heelers, Wolf Creek among others) the story has a pace to it that keeps building and changing in unexpected directions. It is a sister piece to that Australian hit Priscilla Queen of the Desert as it also involves a cross-dressing theme in rural Australia, but for my money the plot here is far more interesting and developed. It has the sleeper quality of Crackers and is far more entertaining than a lot of those pretentious Australian movies like Little Fish, Candy and Somersault. Get a look at it!

This flick proves it, Australians carry the same torch for Elvis, hot rods and hair grease (OK-gel, to be politically correct these days)and with the same kitschy flair, as their Stateside contemporaries!

A young man tries his hand (as it were) at drag and then finds love in an all-girl band. (Undeniably, the best place to look!) This being the outcome of a nefarious scheme to re-unite his Elvis-besotted father with his sensible, piano-deprived mother. Dysfunctional family drama and sexual comings-of-age intersect in lightly comedic style.

Set in a small town with surrounding farms and lakes, the film's sub- plots and characters overlap and complicate like a mid-summer jaunt in a Shakespearean tale.

Toni Pearen as lead singer Angela is appealingly cutesy and tries her hardest with at best, a tradesman's script. No-one much had anything to work with here. Better than a cold cheeseburger-on-a-sesame-seed-bun to be certain, but with a medium coke as well, I'm not so sure!