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The BBQ
DARREN 'DAZZA' COOK is a loveable suburban everyman with a long-established belief that his family is related to Captain James Cook. Dazza harbours a passion for barbequing, but when he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning at his popular regular Saturday BBQ, Dazza's reputation and dignity are on the line. To make amends he seeks tutelage from the tyrannical Scottish chef known simply as THE BUTCHER. Together they enter an international barbecue competition, pitting Dazza's homespun recipes against the world's best BBQ chefs.
1934, Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
1 January 1998, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
15 May 1945
15 May 1950, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
18 March 1950, Belleville, Illinois, USA
28 October 1944, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
February 18, 2018
Stephen Amis' broad farce lands a few gentle barbs at modern Australian society but this likably silly romp, a sort of celebration of 'Dad Joke' humour, feels most at ease when it's just having a bit of a laugh.
February 21, 2018
Jacobson may be the best thing about the director and co-writer Stephen Amis' The BBQ, though that is not the same as saying he comes even remotely close to saving it.
January 24, 2018
Despite its low-budget trappings, the talented cast do a great job in giving a genuine sense of compassion to their characters, delivering an uncynical rendering of the typical projected Australian image.
February 23, 2018
Now, where to begin with how bad this film is? In the interests of brevity, most of the film's woes stem from one main problem: it has no frigging idea what it is trying to do.
February 18, 2018
...the latest in Australia's long line of generally affable homegrown comedies...
March 19, 2018
A personality void dud of a comedy, undercooked in its writing and bland in its delivery.
February 22, 2018
The BBQ starts with a terrible script and goes downhill from there.
February 22, 2018
The new Australian comedy The BBQ is so overwhelmingly bland, you often forget how faintly awful it consistently remains from beginning to end.
February 26, 2018
The film is abysmal and it all comes down to an absolutely woeful script.
March 02, 2018
There is more character development in this movie than in some I could name that have received multiple Oscar nominations. It made me laugh a lot, too.

