Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Cringe inducing bad.

Beresford's sequel is a more briskly paced film with superior visuals (to the original), and the scattershot plot involving mistaken identities and commie vampires embraces the cartoonish nature of the comic strip with complete aplomb. There are also great supporting characters such as Col 'The Frog', and the humour is more outrageous with its slang heavy dialogue amusingly subtitled for a foreign audience, who will undoubtedly be lost in this crude but knowing exercise in cultural excoriation.

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Crude, vulgar comedy is irresistible and much funnier than it ought to be, thanks to a pitch-perfect performance by Crocker in the lead as the guilless Barry, and a brazen anti-P.C. attitude which I would imagine would have been bad taste in the 70s, let alone 35 years later. Humphries is also a lot of fun in an early incarnation of Edna, and Pleasence is amusing in a why-the-hell-is-he-here kind of way. *SPOILER* Climactic appearance of then Aussie PM Gough Whitlam also very clever.