kenny Honestly, this movie doesn’t dissapoint on one single level. For some, it’s laugh out loud, tears in your eyes funny and for others, constantly mildly hilarious. But the laughs don’t stop coming. Yes toilet humours a constant, but it’s more like that Billy Connolly humour where you could swear in front of the Queen mum and it’s still somehow not taboo.

For the Melbournites out there, you’ll instantly recognise locations such as Flemington, a Chapel St fish and chip shop and the St Kilda Festival. It’s nice when a local production doesn’t try and hide its obvious Australian setting.

The bloke who plays Kenny is absolutely spot on. He’s easily as convincing and hilarious as Christoper Guest, pioneer of the mockumentary, in his character acting. In spite of all the personal obstacles and people in his way (such as his ex wife and anally retentive father), Kenny’s character triumphs. His potrayal never leaves you with questions of continuity or who the hell this character really is. Nor do you know what Kenny is going to do or say next.

Plot wise, Kenny’s life is fairly cyclic. His life is pretty straight forward until summer, ‘when every bastard starts having a festival’ and his life turns routinely chaotic. Just when he thinks he’s on top of the usual adversities, his boss asks him to attend a ‘plumbers’ trade convention in Nashville Tennessee. Suddenly Kenny is forced to step out of his blue collar comfort zone into a business card carrying world of schmoozing and networking. This is where the story goes a bit ‘fish out of water’ and it’s hard to tell how much of what’s going on is improvised or scripted!

On his American journey, Kenny both fumbles and triumphs and does well for a bloke who’s never been on a plane or drank Chardonnay before.

Kenny is the antethesis of TV dramas like ER and Gray’s Anatomy, which provide idyllic potrayals of important people that make a difference in a glam setting. Here we have Kenny who’s such a well balanced and likable individual, he could easily transcend his humble role in life. But he’s both validated and self assured by his job and doesn’t need other people’s accolades to tell him who he is.

I only hope this will become a bit of a cult classic, even if it’s a one-off. It’s worthy of international acclaim and deserves to do well. On the mantle piece of Aussie classic comedies, there’s Barry McKenzie, Bad Boy Bubby, The Castle and now Kenny. 5 out of 5.

View the trailer at  http://www.kennythemovie.com/