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Title

You could do worse: 'You and Your Stupid Mate'

Author(s)

McFarlane, Brian

Abstract

What, I asked myself - and him - could the editor of this journal have in mind by sending me off to see this latest Australian comedy when he knows how sensitive I am? Hadn't I suffered enough in this cause in recent times? Too often, at least since 'The Castle' (Rob Sitch, 1997), the very term 'Australian comedy' has denoted a wit-free zone, and certainly 'You and Your Stupid Mate' won't do much to disturb this image. But: (a) it's not as bad as some others I could name, and, indeed, will name, and (b) it's not as bad as those newspaper reviews might have led you to believe.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Metro Magazine, no. 145 (2005), pp. 42-45

Publication year

2005

FOR Code(s)

1902 Film, Television and Digital Media;  2001 Communication and Media Studies

Keyword(s)

Australian cinema;  Australian comedy;  Australian films;  Comedy films;  Film review;  You and Your Stupid Mate

Publisher

Australian Teachers of Media

ISSN

0312-2654

Publisher URL

http://www.metromagazine.com.au/

Copyright

Copyright © 2005. The published version is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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