BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

danbrophy Television needs a chance to find it's rhythm and creating a sketch comedy show in Australia - especially on a network like ABC where the average viewing age is 40+, creating something that is daring is going to be met with even more criticism. I feel that EGGKF gets better with each episode. By episode two, there was the introduction of darker, more subversive characters - like the children's TV clown with the squeaky voice - that were indicative of where this show could go if given time to grow. In a country that is 1/20 the size of the US, if a large part of the population doesn't tune into something, it's considered a failure and thus, so few television shows have the chance to respond to their audience and mature. The expectation that season 1 episode 1 will be a masterwork is ridiculous.

Seymour Cockburn I looked forward to this - "a random and ridiculous ride into weirdness" and recommended by brother-in-law.Sorry guys, it was not that funny. I got each 'joke' in the first 10 seconds but after that each sketch just dragged on and felt contrived. The endings were just left hanging - no punchline, just sudden endings. The "weirdness" was not there either. Each sketch starts off normal then veers into off-centredness but definitely not weird or unexpected. The acting was good as was the staging.There are Gilliam-type Monty-Python cartoons - short and a bit funny. Also not suitable for kids.Seriously, the writers should do a total rethink. Try to do better dialogue, nuances of language, whatever.

Scottles New sketch comedy shows aren't that common in Australia so it was with great interest that I watched this show, but sadly found it a huge disappointment.The best thing about the show was that the premise behind a lot of the sketches were funny - but then that was completely smothered and killed in the way they were then played out and made.Each sketch for the most part was acted, directed and filmed in the style of a drama. This changed their meaning and feeling completely and made what should have been quick and funny (even absurd) scenes slow, torturous and uncomfortable - for example the Prius driving dinner guest. Most of the sketches looked and felt like they were excerpts out of a drama film - and not comedy sketches at all.There's so much good sketch comedy around from the last 50 or so years - it's not actually rocket science - you think the makers of this show would have done a bit of research. If they were trying to be different just for the sake of it - it's created a flawed product - if they were trying to be different to be funnier - it again hasn't worked. You just have to look at Micallef's Mad As Hell to see there's still a lot of new laughs to be got with in established styles and formats. Reinventing the wheel here has only given us a worse wheel.

gjmooresam I don't want to be a jerk, but this show is just not funny and its not cause Im some old man, i'm only twenty years old. But the thing is I can appreciate good humor, which this isn't. The creators and ABC have told us that this is a darker, surreal comedy. Unfortunately the creators have mixed up 'dark' with vulgar. The show tries to shock the laughs out of us with no success, like with a OH and S safety inspector at a porn shoot. Its not funny its just vulgar and stupid. Sketch comedy should come out of no where and make you laugh, with this sketch i knew what was gonna happen the moment that guy came on screen (and yes i can see how that links with the porn scenario <-- thats actually funny). Again the creators have told us that they wish to create longer length sketches. The whole idea of sketches are they are meant to be short and quick and funny. Packed full of laughs within a short time span. These sketches go for too long and the jokes don't keep up. Many of the sketches you can guess the punchline before it occurs, like when the wife tells her husband (who always wears hats) that she thinks he is bald and when he takes off his hat, oh would you look at that she wants a divorce. That isn't dark humor, its silly and contrived and easily guessable. Overall unless your a 15 year old boy whose watching TV by himself, this show will just annoy you. There has to be better shows out there for ABC, if there's not there is little hope for Australian television. 3/10