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Kenny

4/10

Stars: Shane Jacobson, Eve von Bibra

Director: Clayton Jacobson

There's some good fun at the start of this Australian mockumentary about a good-hearted guy (Shane Jacobson) who instals toilets - both permanent and (mostly) portable for a living. His wife has left him, his son is foisted on him at inopportune moments, his pony-tailed brother is worse than useless and his father may be dying.

Kenny himself wears out his welcome very quickly and the film sags in major fashion until it picks up half-way through when our soiled hero visits Nashville, Tennessee, for a 'pumper and cleaner' exhibition, striking up a tentative relationship with a flight attendant (Eve von Bibra), which stalls when his father is taken ill and he has to fly home.

Full of the expected scatological humour, the film also has some pithy Australian one-liners - 'busier than a one-armed bricklayer in Baghdad' - that make it worth your while trying to stay awake through the rest of it.

David Quinlan

Australia 2006. UK Distributor: Odeon Sky Filmworks. Colour.
105 minutes. Not widescreen. UK certificate: 15.

Guidance ratings (out of 3): Sex/nudity 0, Violence/Horror 0, Drugs 0, Swearing 2.

Review date: 26 Sep 2007