Housos vs Authority. Rated MA 15+ (frequent strong coarse language, sex scenes and drug use). 103 minutes. Written and directed by Paul Fenech.
Verdict: Fenech’s housos very quickly wear out their
welcome in this long, repetitive big screen adaptation.
The history of Australian
cinema is littered with films that celebrate anarchic, irreverent, broad-based
humour – almost to the point that it sometimes seems that for every Picnic
at Hanging Rock (1975) there’s a The
Adventures of Barry McKenzie
(1972). Equally, Australian characters from the lower end of the country’s
socio-economic spectrum have been the subject of many satirical films and
television series from Kath and Kim
to Fenech’s controversial television series Housos that premiered on SBS in late 2011.
