VividSimon Simply Perfect

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

harurar Yep great Kiwi movie in it's day, got people back into the movie theaters showed life the way it was, if you were unhappy with things the way they were you could just drop everything jump in a car and go. sadly it is showing it's age a little now, but is still great entertainment the mini speeding through the streets of wellington is just great, then driving through the wellington railway station just great.As for those big Aussie tanks the cops use to use, they always had trouble catching smaller cars on the Windy narrow roads, only ever good for the straits. The sad thing is Geoff Murphy didn't make any more comedy ones after this bit of a shame. got some great actors, Kelly,Bruno,Don & co. Lots of kiwi jokes. just a great entertaining movie, i saw it on DVD so bought it, a must have. Shame that movies like this for good old entertainments sake are seldom made anymore.

Woodyanders Kelly Johnson and Tony Barry are affably boorish and unaffected as a couple of aimless, disaffected, alienated everyday nobody ne'er-do-well blokes -- Johnson's a nutty, reckless juvenile delinquent hell-raiser while Barry's a dejected middle-aged loser who's just broken up with his wife -- who decide to make a cross country jaunt across New Zealand in a tiny stolen yellow rental car in this disarmingly modest and unpretentious seriocomic road movie delight. The misfit duo inadvertently become wanted fugitives and subsequent overnight criminal celebrities when they stiff a gas station attendant out of several bucks worth of fuel. During their wacky misadventures our scruffy anti-heroes pick up a daffy lady hitch-hiker (the adorably vacuous Claire Oberman), cunningly elude the bumbling cops at every turn, and run into a fair share of eccentrics who want to eagerly capitalize on their newfound fame and notoriety. Director Geoff Murphy compensates for the hackneyed chase premise by coaxing funny, endearingly loose and zany performances from his uniformly excellent cast ("The Quiet Earth" 's Bruno Lawrence has a nice bit as a laid-back, pot-smoking chopshop owner), dynamically staging a few thrilling automobile stunts, keeping the pace swift and unflagging throughout, and neatly mining a winningly droll line in crudely amusing off-color humor. A marvelously mellow jazz score, beauteous backwoods locations, slick cinematography, and a plausibly downbeat, yet still satisfying ending round off this likably lightweight screwball goof of a movie.

hellblazer-4 I'm saddened to report that the region 4 2 disc DVD release has been cut by about 12 minutes, a series of cuts so severe that it renders some subplots completely meaningless.presumably this has been done by the Director, but i still feel somewhat cheated that a original version isn't available on this "not so special edition"However the region 2 DVD is complete,although the picture quality isn't as good. the fact the region 2 is full frame isn't too bad as the film was shot that way and theatrically matted to 1.85my advice is that if you want to see this Kiwi classic the way you originally remember it get the Region two version

milo970 A classic NZ movie. Two rebels and a stolen yellow mini treat us to a bunch of laughs as they stay ahead of the police on a 1000 mile road trip from top to bottom of NZ. Goodbye Pork Pie was a local blockbuster and sold to more overseas territories than any film of the time This is available as PAL VHS in NZ for less than $nz15.00 about $us9.00