Swinging Summer – Willkommen in den 70ern (2018)

Swinging Summer – Willkommen in den 70ern: Directed by Stephan Elliott. With Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue, Jesse Denyer, Kotan Jacob. A teenager comes of age in a small Australian town during the 1970s when a 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach.

“Hereu0026#39;s my one word review – AVOID. Now here are a few more words – this movie looked like it was a going to be a lot of fun but it just wasnu0026#39;t, it was terrible. The cast is great and it looks like they were at least having fun, but pity that canu0026#39;t be said for anyone who watches this. When you see a movie on its opening day and itu0026#39;s being screened on the smallest and worst screen in the 16 screen cinema complex near you, that should be your first clue that it ainu0026#39;t gonna be great…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere isnu0026#39;t really a story and what there is, itu0026#39;s just not interesting – the half-baked key-swapping of the parents, the kid with the camera, the miserable girl, the beached whale – it was all meant to add up to something more than what was delivered. Itu0026#39;s really a shame because there was a lot of potential for this to be a really good look back at a time that a lot of us can (sort of) remember either as kids or as parents. If it was trying to be satire, it didnu0026#39;t work. Straight up funny? Nope that didnu0026#39;t work either.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eToo many animals being mistreated in this movie as well – not funny back in the 70s, not funny now. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMaybe this should have been marketed as a mystery because I was honestly trying to figure out how so many good actors got roped into this. The costumes, hair and set design are on point though, so Iu0026#39;m giving 3 stars for that.”