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7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
It's just a light hearted comedy..., 2 April 2002

Author: kismetgecko from Australia

This flick was pretty good. It's light hearted and simple. It has a bit of fun while trying to re-arrange some of the sexual stereotypes which can be found some places in rural Australia. It kept me interested with its simplicity and kept a good consistency in its comic approach. It's the sort of movie I could watch a few times and not get completely sick of. Mainly because the characters and the presentation are quite endearing in their beauty...but that's probably a drawback for some of you. Even if you don't like the cutesie presentation of this flick it may still be worth it if you would like to watch people play around with sexual stereotypes in a rural Australian setting.

6 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
We were nearly rolling on the floor with laughter!, 6 December 2001
Author: terry-120 from U.S.A.

This is a "goofball comedy" reminiscent of the old slapstick comedies of early black and white film. I didn't try to make sense of the goings-on of a young man (trying to pass in an all girls' band) or his dim-witted father, but just laughed at all the ridiculous situations that resulted. This is one of my favorite movies, really! I'm just sorry that I can't find it on VHS or DVD.

3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Very funny movie!, 29 June 2007

Author: annie_nettie from United States

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.

2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Delightful, really enjoyed it., 24 October 2007

Author: tmov01 from Australia

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!

5 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
Yeah right! and all women are angels?, 23 October 2001
Author: Noel Bailey (uds3@hotmail.com) from Longmont: Colorado US

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!

0 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
What were they smoking????, 27 September 1999

Author: Bill Bertrand (wildbill1@home.com) from Sterling Heights, MI

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.

1 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Not bad, 25 July 1999

Author: anonymous from Thailand

I don't think that I like the plot of this film. I normally can guess what will happen next. When Mick joins an all-female band as Michelle, the situation has to be as some films of the past used to be produced. Mick, certainly, falls in love with a band member. And finally, she figures out that Mick is a liar. That's it.

However, I sit comfortably, relax and try to enjoy the film. It's not bad because the production doesn't disturb me much.

0 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
In a word, YUCK!, 24 August 2001
Author: da cissy pimp from Adelaide, Australia

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Warning: possible spoilers ahead

During the 1990s, the Australian film industry produced many fine films - films such as "Strictly Ballroom", "Romper Stomper", and "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" - which earnt it much well-deserved recognition overseas. Unfortunately, it also produced such crap as the execrable "comedy" "All Men Are Liars".

Basically, this movie revolves around a family in the sugar-growing region of Queensland, and the turmoil that this family finds itself in when the father, Barry, rather heartlessly sells the mother's piano. Unfortunately, soon after being taken away, the piano is accidentally destroyed by a train which is about the only remotely funny incident in the whole film. Incognizant of the piano's unfortunate destruction, one of the kids in the family - a guy called Mick - vows to earn enough money to buy the piano back, and gets a chance to do just that when some band turns up in town. Soon after arriving, the band boots out its only male member for assorted sexual shenanigans, and starts looking for a replacement among the locals. Unfortunately, due to the bad experiences the band had with the member it just got rid of, the replacement has to be a woman: something that prompts (a rather reluctant) Mick to dress up in drag and try his luck joining the band cunningly disguised as a member of the opposite sex. Thankfully his ruse (despite being terribly unconvincing to the audience) succeeds and he is in. Unfortunately, however, many predictable complications arise when the band's lead singer (played by real-life Australian popstar Toni Pearen) starts falling for him without really knowing why.

Although it may sound vaguely amusing, "All Men Are Liars' is, in reality, an unmitigated heap of crap. The dialogue is terrible and the main character is a rather pathetic individual. Not only does he not look terribly convincing as a woman (as noted above), but he also doesn't use his masquerade as a chance to have some evil fun with the women he finds himself working among. The scene in which he is finally unmasked is also pretty vomitive; as soon as she discovers that he is not a woman after all, the aforementioned lead singer slaps him twice in the face (once on each side) before kneeing him in the nads: a despicable act of violence that is, no doubt, perfectly acceptable in the film-maker's eyes given that the aggressor is a woman, the victim is a man, and all that crap.

Unless you have the hots for Toni Pearen (in which case, you are very SAD and should seek professional help at the earliest available opportunity), give this film a miss.

3 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
One of the THE worst movies ever!, 18 October 2004

Author: BadWebDiver from Perth, Australia

This is one of the most pathetic, lame-brained cr*p stories I have ever had the misfortune to see.

Just imagine a plot vaguely similar to LADYBUGS - but without Rodney Dangerfield, Jonathan Brandis or anything remotely resembling a sense of comic timing, and you pretty much get the idea where this story is heading.

The sort of film to make you scratch your head in wonder going "what the heck were they thinking here?" I didn't even crack a smile during the whole drawn-out process.

Extremely disappointing and laborious storytelling.

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