housos vs . authority
the characters of sbs' s cult hit tv series housos make their feature - film debut in housos vs authority .
housos vs authority must be good because the producers made a sequel, pizza vs housos, now showing in cinemas. see the original at 8. 30pm on saturday (sbs one) .
this is the sequel to two different films: fat pizza (2003) and housos vs. authority (2012) .
housos vs. authority is an australian film, based upon the stories and characters of the housos television series, created by paul fenech. [ 2 ]
the stars of the movie housos vs authority (from left) jason davis, elle dawe, paul fenech, vanessa davis and kevin taumata .
housos vs authority was created to satisfy fans as fenech waited to see if sbs would commission a second series, which the broadcaster eventually did .
he said film and television are the key places where people are stigmatised and the screening of housos vs authority — the feature film version of housos — was likely to entrench existing prejudices .
paul fenech brings his two tv comedies to the big screen in fat pizza vs housos .
reviewing a paul fenech film, whether it be fat pizza, housos vs authority or his latest assault on political correctness, fat pizza vs housos, is a bit like reviewing a wild, raucous, out - of - control circus .
in housos vs authority, franky, shazza, dazza and their mates take on every authority possible. their quest? ... to sprinkle shazza' s mums ashes on top of australias most famous icon .
in housos vs authority, franky, shazza, dazza and their mates take on every authority possible. their quest? to sprinkle shazza' s mum' s ashes on top of australia' s most famous icon .
richard payten, managing director of transmission films, said housos vs authority & apos; s figures were particularly strong in the suburban heartland of australia’s capital cities .
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fat pizza vs. housos, 2014
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in 2016, there seem to be no plans of a sequel to
fat pizza vs housos
.
housos vs authority, the low - budget film based on paul fenech & apos; s controversial television show, opened at the no 5 at the australian box office today .
to say housos vs. authority is a bad film is easy, to say it made you laugh at decent amount to people you respect, now that’s the hard part .
nevertheless, fenech invariably has turned a tidy buck selling his seedy, sludgy humour to the masses, and it & apos; s very much business as ooze - ual with the hugely mucky housos vs. authority .
the majority of his comedy projects, which include three previous features — somewhere in the darkness, fat pizza and housos vs authority - and something like 100 half hours of television for sbs, have turned a profit .
based on the television series housos, housos vs. authority follows three groups of people living in “sunnyvale, ” a derelict suburb in new south wales. here we are exposed to their constant run in’s with authority, poverty and the continuous struggle of love, loss and friendship in a time of economic hardship. a triumph of the human spirit…. now if you think that’s what housos vs. authority is / could be about, then close this page right now and go see argo, jokes about farting, stealing and defacing public property ensue. yet is any of it funny ?
long after 1000 sensitive, lyrical mood pieces have been forgotten, there' ll surely be a place in australian film history for the unsinkable paul fenech – writer - director - star of fat pizza, housos vs authority, and now fat pizza vs housos, in which the characters from two of his knockabout tv comedies go head to head on the big screen .
actor stuart rawe (reg) never appeared in the
pizza
tv series or the previous
fat pizza
movie, meaning he was new to these characters and setting. however, rawe played the same character in the
housos
tv series and
housos vs authority
movie .
fat pizza vs. housos is a crossover film bringing together the eponymous series housos and fat pizza, itself a spin - off of television series pizza, which was released on 27 november 2014. [ 4 ]
in its second week, housos vs authority, distributed by transmission and directed by paul fenech, took another $ 302, 800 across 152 screens for a relatively low screen average of $ 1, 992. the film now stands at $ 1. 028m .
two of paul fenech’s best - known worlds collide in his most recent project, fat pizza vs housos, which features cameos by kyle sandilands and angry anderson .
australian director, writer and star of housos vs authority, paul fenech, takes the denizens of tv' s fictional public housing enclave, sunnyvale, to the big screen, with results that are gross, deliberately overstated and cartoonish, and surprisingly good - natured at times .
rumour has it fenech’s movies’ profitability comes more from their cheap production costs than their box office take. but make money they do and so fenech shows no sign of quitting, even though he’d be doing us all a favour if he did. fat pizza vs housos ends on a cliffhanger (of sorts) and the news that the story will continue in fat pizza vs housos vs authority. his shit was barely tolerable when they were giving it away on sbs: he’s fucked in the face if he expects anyone to pay for it now .
all the characters from fat pizza are back and they go head on with the local housos in sunnyvale. courtsey pauly fenech' s housos tv .
the housos characters, on the other hand, are a little less predictable .
housos vs authority should be celebrated because it is a rare thing when an aussie movie sparks a sequel, especially on the indie film front. it' s not unheard of - - think alvin purple, crocodile dundee, wolf creek - - but it' s also not common. fat pizza vs housos went into cinemas last week. fury road is heading our way soon and blue dog is in planning. it may be too soon to pronounce a trend towards sequels but it is a healthy sign .
this story uws researcher says housos film has lost the plot first appeared on hills news .
unpredictable... the housos gang gather in bobo’s pizza shop. picture: transmission films
what it isn' t, in this instance, is particularly entertaining or funny, for fat pizza vs housos lacks even the minutest of narratives that were present in fenech' s previous
fill - ums
.
paul fenech has so much faith in his ability to connect with his target audience that he has invested $ 500, 000 of his own money in his latest film project, fat pizza vs housos — about half the film’s total budget .
housos verse authority film depicts' bogans' now defined as' depreciative term for unfashionable, uncouth, or unsophisticated person, especially of low social status.' pictured are shazza and dazza played by actors elle dawe and jason davis. picture: justin lloyd
written, directed, produced and starring housos creator paul fenech, the comedy romp sees franky, shazza, dazza and their mates take on every authority possible in a quest to fulfil shazza' s mum' s deathbed request to have her ashes sprinkled on top of uluru .
but with the lazy, nonsensical narrative in fat pizza vs housos - which is the worst of his three films - i suspect the whole housos and pizza phenomenon is now a bit on the nose. i' m sure not all ethnic groups, disabled folks or welfare battlers appreciate being depicted this way. fenech needs to move on to something else. something new. something lacking' vs' in the title. and that' s just what he' s doing, apparently, with a secret new project next year .
shot in five weeks with a cast of about 200 of the most unlikely performers and non - actors ever assembled, fat pizza vs housos sees the characters from both unlikely hit series and movies go head - to - head in a kind of lowbrow battle to the death .
housos vs. authority has a 60% approval rating on rotten tomatoes (based on 5 reviews). [ 3 ] luke buckmaster of in film australia wrote
paul fenech has been lobbing comedy grenades for eons. whether he intended it or not, his latest movie is one of australia' s most brutal satires of lower class suburbia
, while 3aw' s jim schembri wrote
very faithfull, very funny, very crass big screen version of [ the ] brilliantly low brow tv series... as far as a film doing justice to the tv show on which it is based, housos vs. authority leaves the abomination of kath & kimderella for dead .
however, reviews haven' t been wholly positive for the film. for example, matthew toomey of abc radio brisbane wrote
the tiresome nature of the comedy wears thin very quickly. it' s the same easy jokes over and over again
.
once again, the housos are in the spotlight, denounced and derided - and once again, they find a way to fight back .
but fat pizza vs housos turns out to be surprising in one unexpected way – yeah, we kind of guessed that there’d be new depths plumbed here, so that “surprise” doesn’t count. no, the big surprise here is that it’s conclusive proof that fenech’s wacky full - bore style of comedy is actually, measurably getting worse .
while fat pizza vs housos displays a consistent anti - authority slant, it would be hard to characterise the film as either left or right. fenech' s scattershot method involves taking all stereotypes to the extreme – and certainly not every aspect of what he does is worth defending, especially not the inarguable sexism, which harks back to the days of benny hill. but by and large he achieves a rough - and - ready sense of democracy by implying that no character is more worthy of respect than any other. in other words, they' re all a bunch of stooges .
just out of interest, from box office mojo, fat pizza vs housos seems to have tapped out at the box office with total takings of under $ 500, 000. given fenech was boasting of putting about half the budget of $ 1m in himself, this could be, finally, the end of a fifteen - year - long reign of comedic terrror
uws researcher dallas rogers has criticised the new housos movie, saying the exaggerated characters and plot reinforce negative public attitudes about tenants and affect real people’s lives .
western sydney satire rejoice – two of your favourite comedy franchises are about to collide full force as housos lines up a head to head cinematic battle with fat pizza .
a friend of mine accuses me of reverse snobbery, in part because he knows i think he' s a snob even though i' m too polite to say. i tend to be condescending towards the rich and privileged, whereas he tends to not give the poor and uneducated the time of day. he' d hate housos vs authority; i love it because it' s cinematic proof that the smart, the hilarious, the larger than life, the confident - - and the rat cunning - - can be found not just on the right side of the tracks but among the junkies, bogans, bikies and gangs .
as part of the uws residents’ voices project, dr rogers organised public screenings of the previous television series of housos, set in the fictional public housing estate of sunnyvale .
‘‘in my research, most of tenants challenged the view among non - tenants that housos is a true reflection of life in a public housing estate, ’’ he said .
before you say “because you’re an idiot” you have to consider, this is a “movie” that does everything in its power to offend you and make you laugh rather than pretending it cares for plot and three dimensional characters (something the comedies listed above did). housos vs. authority has no shame, no understanding of structure or decency, it just does everything it can to top itself every five minutes in something more ridiculous and idiotic in hopes that you laugh, and after about five minutes, you become accustom to this and either do so or not, if not, get the hell out of there, if so, stick around, it gets better (or worse, if you really think about it) .
west pennant hills actress vanessa davis, who plays the character vanessa in both the controversial comedy series and the film, argued it was never the intention of housos to poke fun at society’s underprivileged .
the housos cast, on the other hand… well, they shout a lot. frankie slaps people (usually authority figures) with his thong, the cops chase him but they’re too fat to catch him, a lot of people in wheelchairs zip around, “the junkies” try to steal shit, “the bikies” yell a lot and sell drugs, habib and his crew try to sell drugs, there’s a cranky grannie and a lumbering idiot and the rest just blur into one mass of shouty morons. it’s a live - action cartoon; this is not a good thing .
the colliding universes give fenech the chance to double his roles as both franky from housos and his
cousin
pauly from pizza. he also writes, directs, produces and has a hand in every aspect of the production .
housos seems designed to work the same way a cartoon does. even the minor depth of the fat pizza characters is gone: housos just features no - dimensional characters having slapstick adventures in a crazy setting. but the team at warner brothers who made the looney tunes shorts were bona fide geniuses working in a medium where they could put literally anything on the screen: fenech is marginally competent director who thinks creating characters who run around swearing is all he has to do to get laughs. he’s even given up using his imagination when it comes to slinging insults: if you laughed at “fucked in the face” back in season one of housos, fenech hasn’t bothered coming up with anything new – let alone better – here .
the ‘housos’ of the title — pronounced ‘how - zoes’ and short for the subsidised residents of public housing authority properties — come from sunnyvale, “the worst suburb in australia”, described lovingly as “a shit sandwich at a picnic”. here we meet such characters as bazza, chazza, gazza, wazza and kazza, out of work, on the grog and communicating at the absolute top of their voices. when chazza’s mum rayleen dies, a group of sunnyvale regulars decide to scatter her ashes (cling - filmed into one of her ugg boots) from uluru — which is determinedly called ayer’s rock, its earlier un - pc name .
much as we like to sneer dismissively at fenech’s work, we try to do so for reasons apart from the usual “ugh, he’s making shows about poor people” and “this show is just a thrown together mess” reasons so beloved of the tiny wedge of the australian media that actually pay attention to his work. so one thing that didn’t surprise us about fat pizza vs housos is that it actually has a real story: the film begins with former fat pizza owner bobo (john boxer) leaving prison after serving a 15 year stretch for chainsawing someone who annoyed him. now he (and his mother) are on a mission to rebuild the pizza business. only problem is, over those fifteen years away rents and wages have skyrocketed (by their standards), and the only place crummy enough to be affordable is sunnyvale, home of the housos .
the housos attempt to gain access to the rock only to be denied due to failure to pay the entry fee. they then break in and franky goes to deface the rock while kev, vanessa, dazza and shazza have an orgy until they are arrested by the fired cops. the former mayor of sunnyvale
simon abbott
is elected into federal parliament but his live interview is interrupted by the news that four of the housos got arrested for breaking into uluru. when they get to court shazza explains that they were only committing the act of a true aussie and are let off with a warning. on the way back to sunnyvale the housos deliver the stuff to the alice chapter and then run into franky who refuses to say anything related to what happened with him .
up till roughly halfway through, fat pizza vs housos appears to have no plot: if anything, it has too much. what' s absent, as ever with fenech, is any kind of modulation. even more than in most tv comedy, the same devices are repeated over and over: slapstick punch - ups, slapstick sex scenes, constant swearing and political incorrectness. each character is assigned one or two running gags. pauly is obsessed with sub - woofers and calling people
stooges
; shazza makes casually bigoted comments and neglects her kids; and it' s only a matter of time before bobo cranks up his chainsaw once again .
‘‘stigmatised neighbourhoods face difficult challenges even without shows like housos, such as discrimination by employers on the basis of postcode, businesses being reluctant to operate in or near estates, and the selling off of social housing to the private market to promote mixed communities, ’’ dr rogers said .
paul fenech directs the film like one big episode of housos yet the timing of each gag strangely works, there are no inventive camera angles or amazingly shot set pieces, it all comes from the exaggerated performances and timing and they work. if you’re wondering how the writing is, then you haven’t been reading this review carefully of haven’t seen the trailer for this film yet .
simon convinces the prime minister to re arrest the housos who appear in the supreme court in canberra. johnno the dwarf bikie acts as their lawyer until he attempts to commit an act of contempt after the judge tells him he' s not allowed to smoke or drink in court. after multiple arguments franky tells the story of what happened in the bush and explains that he snuck into an army base which was american land. franky then explains that aliens gave him an anal probe. after the judge continuously asks franky to remove his hat, he loses it and attempts to thong the judge. shazza then commits an act of contempt of court and the housos are given ten years until that night a current affair plays the footage and re edits it leaving all the sunnyvale housing commission residents disgusted. simon is forced by an angry prime minister to let the housos free or he will be fired. the whole of sunnyvale has a party until junior and franky' s ex cheree show up demanding money for child support. franky refuses which starts a riot until the coppers show up after which the riot is taken out on them .
as you’d expect, having an open and functioning business in their neighbourhood messes with the housos’ do - nothing ethos, even if they do like the pizzas. things get worse once bobo’s mum starts pulling strings at the local centerlink to first get the locals working there for free as a work - for - the - dole scheme, then have their benefits paid in food vouchers that they have to spend at fat pizza .
fenech has ruled bogan territory before, with his five television series of fat pizza for the sbs network, two of swift and shift couriers, and a first series of housos. his 2003 movie version of fat pizza did excellent home business. there’s no doubting his instinct for bruising working class humour — think the three stooges on welfare — and he has developed a group of like - minded, unrestrained comic actors who consistently let rip .
some of the pizza / housos regulars are looking rather mature for the naughtier action, but elle dawe is fearlessly provocative as the wiry chazza, always in a grubby t - shirt that says ‘this is australia’, and fenech himself, despite his very short shorts, is sympathetic even while endlessly guzzling whisky. brutally brisk editing by david rudd matches the non - stop action. it’s unlikely that any movie has ever had such cheerfully obscene, f * ck - filled dialogue .
from just about every perspective that doesn’t involve writer / director / star paul fenech cashing in, bringing the worlds of housos and fat pizza together makes no sense. and not just in the traditional “ugh, aliens versus predator really messed up both franchises” way that bringing different worlds together in the one movie is almost always a massive artistic fail because… look, it’s paul fenech we’re talking about here, ok? both shows are just about him and his mates running around swearing their heads off, right ?
keen - eyed readers will have spotted that while that’s an actual story, it’s one that at most takes about ten minutes to tell. so fenech pads it out with the usual housos stuff: “thongings” (frankie has developed a boomerang version), topless women, swearing dwarves, fat cops pigging out, sex dungeons and songs that involve people shouting the name of the tv series – though most of these songs are holdovers from fat pizza. there’s even a brief swift & shift couriers cameo at the start, for the two people that watched that deservedly unloved fenech series .
the reason why the words “live - action cartoon” fill viewers with dread is because cartoons and live - action work in different ways. cartoons are animated: animation means a lot more of the energy a comedy needs can come from having the characters do things that real - life people can’t. you don’t need to give characters in cartoons a lot of depth – though bugs bunny and daffy duck are a lot closer to real people than anyone in housos, and they’re cartoon animals with only 7 or 8 minutes per classic episode – because you can do all manner of crazy stuff with and to them .
shazza jones is a die - hard resident of
sunnyvale
the roughest, toughest, meanest area of australia not yet rejuvenated by the australian government. packed together inside this' hope - less' place of low - life, and acutely destitute estate are some of the most inhuman bacterial scourges that are left to their own devices; the junkies, who will have anything that resembles a valuable meal ticket for their next hit of heroin. the bikers, headed by angry (angry anderson), whose authority and rule over parts of sunnyvale echo his warnings to stay out of his way, and then there is kev, franky, shazza and vanessa - together they make up the estate into what is it today... unbelievable! the story of
sunnyvale
is told through the experiences and guidance of shazzas' uncle bazza, whose daily life revolves around the slot machines, pub and pleasurable assertions while under the stupor of alcohol. and the story which he tells us is the quest of shazza scattering her old mom' s ashes of
aires ...
the sessions, a film by an australian film - maker husband and wife duo, has taken $ 267, 000 at the box office in its opening weekend .
written and directed by ben lewin and produced by his wife judi levine, the sessions is inspired by a true story and and follows man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity to a professional sex surrogate .
the fox - distributed film was awarded winner of the audience award at the sundance film festival this year .
starring john hawkes, william h macy and helen hunt, the film opened on 57 screens for a $ 4, 680 screen average, taking the film’s total australian box office to $ 278, 000, following a screening at melbourne international film festival .
elsewhere, action - comedy seven psychopaths opened with $ 671, 000 across 186 screens for an average of $ 3, 608. the film which is distributed by hopscotch was second on the box office chart, but along way behind argo, directed and starring ben affleck, now in its third weekend and taking $ 1. 49m across 354 screens for an average $ 4, 210 .
madman’s australian documentary paul kelly: stories of me took another $ 14, 743 across nine screens, with the film standing at $ 384, 733 .
australian film last dance, directed by david pulbrook, also in its second week made just $ 2, 892 for distributor becker across four screens, while amiel courtin wilson’s hail made $ 1, 677 on just one screen .
last dance’s total box office stands at $ 14, 210 while hail has taken $ 38, 556 .
cate shortland’s lore made another $ 1400. the film now stands at $ 295, 000 .
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released on a mid - range 155 prints, it had the highest screen average of all the films that opened in australia yesterday, including ben affleck & apos; s oscar candidate argo and the jake gyllenhaal crime drama end of watch .
fenech wrote, directed, produced and starred in the castle - style comedy, which sees franky (fenech) and his best mate dazza (jason davis) travel in a drug - laden campervan from the western outskirts of sydney to uluru - so that dazza & apos; s foul - mouthed girlfriend shazza (elle dawe) can be reunited with the dying mother she hasn & apos; t seen since she was three .
paul fenech knows his audience as well as, if not better, than any filmaker we & apos; re ever worked with, & apos; & apos; he said .
fans have embraced the film with relish - attending early, paid previews dressed up as their favourite character .
what & apos; s great is to see that enthusiasm and the deep social media following translate into a strong box office opening, & apos; & apos; said payten .
this is very much an australian film made for a broad australian audience. & apos; & apos ;
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the series is a satirical parody of australian residents, who are living in housing commission public housing .
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fat pizza
, the sydney - based pizzeria of bobo gigliotti, whose slogan is
they' re big and they' re cheesy
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rabbit and rongo, two dumb but kind - hearted criminals, want to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs. inspired by true crimes around the world, they attempt to raise money through a series of dumb plans and hopeless schemes .
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this is a brilliant satire tongue in cheek comedy and highlights the many cultural diversities in australia and superficial nature of the social upper class. most of this will be lost on those upper class people and those not from australia and in particularly americans. there' s no big name multimillion dollar actors / actresses or explosives, fireworks or even cgi, which hollywood are much more comfortable with. instead talent is what makes this film hilarious. great editing and is fast paced all the way through. the acting is superb and the writing is brilliant and totally unpredictable. laughter from start to even past the end credits, so make sure you watch the end credits. so grab a pizza and a six - pack and sit back for some hilarious entertainment .
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the gang try to find ways to make money to survive & get wasted. mean while shazza needs to visit her mum that lives in ayer’s rock who is slowly dying. they all live in a suburb called sunnyvale that brings the worst out of them by making them steal & bash people .
their main source of income comes from centre link where they pretend their disabled to get more money. in the end trying to find ways to get the bikie' s drugs back to them without trying to get killed by them at the same time .
film review: you can think what you want of paul fenech - as if he' d give two hoots anyway - but there can be no denying this rascally raker of moronic mirth is a showman .
sure, his shows aren & apos; t much. tv series like pizza and swift & shift couriers have always been good for quick, cheap laughs, but only if you and your brain had temporarily parted company .
nothing wrong with that. dumb comedies have just as much a right to exist as the sophisticated ones .
if there was an offensive olympics, fenech and his team would finish on the podium in every event going on the pungent strength of what transpires here .
every ethic minority cops a whack, as do the wheelchair - bound, the drug - addicted, the unemployed, the employed, the insane, the sane, the living and, indeed, the dead .
with a flimsy plot held together by the spiritual quest of haggard houso shazza (elle dawe) to spread her dead mum & apos; s ashes at ayers rock, the film is free to try anything and everything to get a laugh .
the results are shabby, with a joke - to - laugh ratio of seven parts miss to one part hit. and what passes for dialogue is often just a stream of expletives, uttered by people who speak (and move) as if their underwear is full of gravel .
as subtle, sad and pointless as a brick thrown through a kindergarten window .
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the plot involves a pilgrimage to the north by a select group of sunnyvale' s finest, to reunite shazza (elle dawe) with her long - lost mother. the journey is made possible by bikie gang boss (angry anderson), who needs some illicit substances transported .
the quest takes an unexpected turn, and culminates in a visit to uluru that becomes the subject of nationwide notoriety, not to mention a fleeting visit to pine gap .
fenech takes the chance to have a go at offending every conceivable special interest group. at the same time the movie presents a perverse yet celebratory vision of a certain type of australianness. and it' s a paean to the virtues of the versatile thong - ubiquitous footwear, and a handy offensive weapon .
there' s an admirable democratic impulse to paul fenech' s latest work that overcomes some of its less forgivable impulses .
in a peculiar way, the film presents itself as a nostalgia trip: while new episodes of the sbs show pizza aired as recently as 2007, fenech pretends that the characters have been out of sight since 1999. as the story begins, crazed chef bobo gigliotti (john boxer) is released from prison, having completed a 15 - year sentence for running amok with a chainsaw .
moving into the rundown sydney suburb of sunnyvale, bobo opens a new pizza joint and rehires most of his old crew – including the hapless pauly (fenech) – at the improved rate of $ 5 an hour. problems arise when bobo' s domineering mama (maria venuti) uses her pull on the council to bring about a scheme whereby the local unemployed receive their dole in the form of food vouchers. this doesn' t go down well with the residents of the sunnyvale housing estate, especially permanently aggrieved single mother shazza (elle dawe) who' ll fight for the right to squander her income on drink and drugs
and yet, remarkably, the narrow cartoon world fenech creates retains some connection with the world australians live in. the highjinks unfold against a backdrop of highways, shopping strips and vacant blocks that are recognisably those of the actual outer suburbs (there' s also a brief excursion to inner melbourne, land of hipsters and hook turns). likewise, fenech is far more willing than most australian filmmakers to tackle uncomfortable topical issues – racial tensions in low - income communities, the government' s treatment of the unemployed – even if he does this in the crudest possible way .
jake wilson was born in london and grew up in melbourne. he got his start reviewing movies for various websites and has been writing for the age since 2006 .
certainly tenants feel that satire plays an important role in public debate, but many would prefer the parodies to not be directed at people in society who are already vulnerable ,
dr rogers said .
‘‘months and months of research was involved in the first series, ’’ ms davis said .
‘‘we went out to the housing commission people, we befriended them, took on their stories. ’’
‘‘the research was sparked by the strong opposition to the tv series from public housing tenants in western sydney, who approached their local member of parliament [ mt druitt state labor mp richard amery ] seeking to ban the show while it was still in production, ’’ dr rogers said .
dr rogers said public housing provided an important affordable housing option for low - income working families, pensioners and others that have difficulty entering the home ownership or private rental market in an increasingly unaffordable housing sector .
pejorative stereotypes and negative neighbourhood perceptions can have very real social and health implications, he said .
‘‘it’s time for us to look past housing estates and their tenants as an object of derision and carefully consider public housing options for low - income citizens within our cities. ’’
‘‘hopefully through all this we can get rid of the separation between housing commission people and the rest of the community. ’’
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this is where a plot synopsis comes in, yet we aren’t talking about a film that associates itself with this thing we call a plot, but as it must be done: shazza’s (elle dawe) mum has died and her dying wish is to have her ashes spread over uluru so she decides to take the trip by bringing along her deadbeat husband, dazza (jason davies) his best mate frankie (paul fenech, the film’s writer, director, producer and just about every other crew member in the credits) his best mate kevo (kevin taumata) and his loud, terrifying wife, vanessa (vanessa davis). they proceed to road trip across the country where they destroy everything they touch and decide to make love in the most public and monumental of locations. it gets more and more ridiculous from the point onwards but if i continue, you’ll have to meet other characters whose names end in “azza”, you don’t want that, trust me .
did you find the show funny? if you haven’t seen the show, do you find poor australian people throwing objects at police and politicians funny? if so, why haven’t you bought your ticket yet? it’s 107 minutes (yeah, really) of gags and stupidity and you will laugh yet hate yourself for it the minute after .
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meanwhile recent anti - bikie legislation has de - fanged the local bikie gang (who now have to travel everywhere by maxitaxi), allowing habib (tahir bilgic) – now back working at fat pizza – and his drug dealing mates to corner the market by peddling drugs inside the pizzas. so while half the locals want to tear the place down for messing with their dole, the other half are hanging around looking to score. as they say in news reports, it’s a volatile mix .
it seems like just the same loud cartoony stuff he’s been serving up for close to twenty years now, which is why he’s received close to zero real critical attention for close to twenty years. but in bringing back the original fat pizza cast of characters – sleek the elite returns halfway through after spending the last fifteen years in gitmo, while fenech plays both houso ’s thong - wielding sex machine frankie and fat pizza ’s hopeless paulie, who also spent the last fifteen years away (in his case, trapped in a sex dungeon) – it becomes clear that fenech has gotten a shitload lazier over those twenty years .
the fat pizza characters might be face - pulling morons, but they’re actual comedy characters of a sort: habib is a dodgy guy trying to get rich the easy way, sleek the elite… ok, he’s just a shit rapper, and paulie is a hopeless loser constantly getting into trouble. oh, and bobo’s a thug obsessed with chainsaws. there’s not much to work with there, but it’s at least possible to build stories around them .
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look on the bright side – at least it’s not nick giannopolous making lame movies at the same rate as paul fenech. can you imagine a new version of the wog boy every year ?
holy shit, there’s an actual plot. no explanation though as to why jabba has a clone i’d guess: d. i would still download the original pizza before it became fat pizza as i thought it was good enough
crap, forgot to mention nick g makes an appearance in this as a racist taxi driver! that bit was actually a nice call back to paul f’s comedy forefathers, considering he’s basically just making updated 80s “wog comedy” .
rebel wilson, hey? ghostbusters 3 will be more horrific than the first two films .
why is akroyd so keen to make gb3? can’t he just leave it to rest? especially since harold ramis rassed away .
this is feig’s reboot version, wrested away from the feverish crystal skull of aykroyd .
sadly, it seems likely that the usual other revenue avenues open to australian film – dvd sales, selling the broadcast rights to sbs, etc – might be enough to get it, if not over the line, then at least closer to it. and then when the third film comes out he can re - package the set as “the complete trilogy” .
you people that write all these rubbish comments are embarrassing, its good natured humour that alot of people enjoy and can connect with, aus tv is a joke its copied wannabe american shite and paul fennech movies an tv programs are a breath of fresh air with all celebrity obsessed muppet programming thats on atleast he makes programs for the real salt of the earth people who like a good laugh, normal people, not trend following idiots who try to sling together little clever wity sentances to read like how every “critic / blogger” in the world writes. if u cant laugh at any of his work then you should try writing, directing, producing and starring in your own shows and movies an show how its done! stop being copy cat douches chipping in ur pointless 2 cents to other exact clone minded people commenting on these stupid blog pages about things they could never achieve, and if you have a beard a stupid sideways hair cut hipster glasses wen u dont need glasses or have used a hashtag in the last 24 hours dont comment back because ur proly a joke anyways
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franky and his best mate dazza travel in a drug - laden campervan from the western outskirts of sydney to uluru so that dazza' s foul - mouthed girlfriend, shazza, can be reunited with the dying mother she hasn' t seen since she was three .
not much to say about this one, there' s an attempt at satire here, but it' s lost under some awful comedy .
in all honesty one of the worst films i have ever seen. assuming its a satire on the poorer, socio - econmic areas of australia, it very rarely hits its mark. when its not being funny, its being offensive or trying to be. the quality of the dialogue goes along these lines - oi, f * * king darren, you c * nt, you got a smoke? oh f * * k off shaz, you f * * kin' b - tch f * * k you c * nt nah, f * * k youse
why? just why? this is the cinematic equivalent of giving yourself a home enema, with a garden hose and chilli sauce .
i have seen people like this out in the world. the humour is very broad and juvenile, and its only occasionally funny, but it' s disturbingly relatable.
housos vs. authority is an australian film , based upon the stories and characters of the housos television series , created by paul fenech . the film was released to australian cinemas on 1 november 2012 , following several pre-release screenings around the country . directed , produced and written by fenech , the film was made for a modest budget of $ 200,000 and was distributed by transmission films . upon release , the film was a box office success , grossing $ 1,386,692 throughout australia . 
housos vs. authority is an australian film, based upon the stories and characters of the housos television series, created by paul fenech. the film was released to australian cinemas on 1 november 2012, following several pre-release screenings around the country. directed, produced and written by fenech, the film was made for a modest budget of $ 200,000 and was distributed by transmission films. upon release, the film was a box office success, grossing $ 1,386,692 throughout australia.
housos vs. authority is an australian film, based upon the stories and characters of the housos television series, created by paul fenech. the film was released to australian cinemas on 1 november 2012, following several pre-release screenings around the country. directed, produced and written by fenech, the film was made for a modest budget of $ 200,000 and was distributed by transmission films. upon release, the film was a box office success, grossing $ 1,386,692 throughout australia.