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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

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the joke is the grotesque wealth of the argot which Humphries has invented for his colonial Candide, a slang so relentless in its vulgarity that it is impossible now to judge to what extent he invented or merely recreated it. ... The humour is diverted sufficiently from McKenzie's sexual quest to allow satire to emerge more strongly than in the first film. The introduction by the Minister of Culture (Humphries himself), and the Monty Pythonish Migration Game in which possible English emigrants are quizzed to see if they have suitably pro-Aussie, anti-Pommie attitudes, display a sharpness not found in
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wrote: "Barry McKenzie is basically the Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman joke extended to include every possible racial and sexual stereotype, in every permutation of cultural collision and with all mythical characteristics reduced to their lowest common denominator. The strength of this version of
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wrote that "while the first film used a plot with at least some origins in true experience (i.e. an Aussie abroad in London), the second one used a plot based on the movies (i.e vampire films) and dealt with things that didn’t really have resonance with Australia (e.g., Transylvania). If Bazza 2
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Aussie friend "Col the Frog" and his other expatriate mates in France and England to head a team of Australian agents to be parachuted into Transylvania and rescue Edna.
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and suggest that there is still room for development and improvement if the series proves to be a continuing one."
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Barry Humphries Gives Us the Good Oil (included as an extra on the Barry McKenzie Holds His Own DVD)
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focused on, say, Bazza backpacking through Europe, I think it would’ve been just as big a hit."
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It is then up to Barry, his identical twin brother the Reverend Kevin McKenzie, his Parisian
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as Senator Douglas Manton / Edna Everage / Meyer de Lamphrey / buck-toothed Englishman
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ended with Barry McKenzie and his aunt Edna returning home to Australia from England.
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Barry and Edna return home to Australia and are greeted by
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grossed $ 1,407,000 at the box office in Australia.
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Bruce Beresford
Barry Humphries
Barry Crocker
Donald Pleasence
Dick Bentley
Don McAlpine
Peter Best
Reg Grundy Productions
Bruce Beresford
Barry Crocker
Barry Humphries
Donald Pleasence
Australian
comedy
film
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Prime Minister of Australia
Gough Whitlam
Margaret Whitlam
Crocodile Dundee
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Dracula
Transylvania
expatriate
Gough Whitlam
dame
Barry Crocker
Barry Humphries
Donald Pleasence

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