Movie Review- Australia

My goodness, is this late. Taking a small detour from the roadtrip updates with one or two movie reviews.

Australia! Queue sweeping, dramatic orchestral music!

Now, I will readily admit that I had something of a bias coming into the movie. I have always been a Baz Luhrmann fan, and I was positively stoked, that's right- STOKED, for his latest.

Alright, lets get the obvious out of the way- this movie is long. Like, EPICALLY long. We're talking longer than Lord of the rings long. Baz could have made Australia into two movies and they BOTH still would have been pretty long. That being said, he managed to keep the storyline moving in a way that you only wondered once or twice, "Jesus, can I get up and pee sometime this CENTURY?".

The acting was very impressive on Hugh Jackman (Drover) and David Wenham (Fletcher)'s parts, but Nicole Kidman (Lady Sara Ashley) kind of fluctuated through out the movie. Her character changes alot over the course of the movie, but Nicole played the change like a switch being flipped- there isn't a great deal of transition for her character. After saying that, though, sweet jebas its lovely to see her with a facial expression again. She's been overindulging in the botox-fairy for quite a while recently, and I was really starting to miss non-zombie Nicole.

Now the REAL standout in the entire cast was none other than Brandon Walters, who played Nullah, the films narrator. This kid is incredibly talented and I certainly hope he goes on to big things.

The sweeping ladscapes and gorgeous visuals that Baz is fairly known for really stole the show. The costumer, Catherine Martin, Baz's wife and costumer on all of his movies, really outdid herself.

All that technical film stuff aside, I could have died very happy 20 minutes ito the movie after Hugh Jackman parades around the campsite, shirtless and dripping from an impromptu bathe.

Oh yeah Baz, you certainly know how to rope in the ladies.

And Hugh? It was lovely to see you in a movie when you didn't cry 3/4 of the time after X3 and (Shudderhiss) the freakin Fountain.

Verdict? B+

Ah, sorry, my best friend and twitter movie reviewer (http://twitter.com/miss_kitty) Kitty uses the A-F grading scale, and I like it more than my previously used number scale.

I still have quite a few reviews to post- Watchmen, The History Boys, RocknRolla, The M 3, I love you, man, ... yeah. I got a few... So expect them to come filtering in.

Till next time!