All That Baz
09. Sep, 2010 
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Bran Nue Dae
Certifiably Aboriginal
Official Website | Trailers & Mo
You loathed Baz Luhrmann’s sweeping epic Australia. Â We know you did, so don’t lie. Â We didn’t. Â Maybe you have no sense of pomp and circumference, or maybe 165 minutes was juss 164 minutes too much of Baz-outback-wardness for you to take. Â Your remedy is the lower-keyed, lower-budgeted, lower-running-timed and high on everything else Bran Nue Dae (that’s ‘Brand New Day’ for those who aren’t ewesed to musspellinngs)
At first, and hactually for quite a long while during, we weren’t really taking to the hammily charmed story of an aborigine boy (Rocky McKenzie)’s quest to return to his unrequited love (Jessica Mauboy)’s side, before a greasy rocker (Dan Sultan) gets his paws all over her.  A ‘wild’ roadtrip adventure ensues, with two ‘wacky’ hippies (‘Missy’ Higgins & Tom Budge) and a ‘wily’ Australian version of Ben Vereen (Ernie Dingo) along for the ride, while they’re all being chased around by the boy’s over-caring preacher man (Geoffrey Rush). Usually it’s the journey that makes the grade, and the destination a disappointment, but in Rachel Perkins‘ fun flick, the opposite is true, and by the end, you’ll be bursting into song along with the chorus too
Mauboy O’BOY!: Jessica Mauboy’s got sum killer eyes and some damn killah thighs. Â who said you had to be a skinny jinny to get yer passport stamped in Thighland?
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Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers
Bran Nue Dae sings a happy song this Friday in NY/LA only and elsewhere elsewhen
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
