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Speaker 1: Great the flick with Ben ninety six. We missed you

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Speaker 1: last week, but you're feeling better now, feeling better now

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Speaker 1: had the roner have recovered? And so what was your

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Speaker 1: excuse for going A Well, it was fine. I was

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Speaker 1: just like Ben Stiller in Zoolanders, like it's the Black

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Speaker 1: Lung Poper. But I survived. I survived. And now as

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Speaker 1: you say, I'm here to tell you what women want. Yes,

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Speaker 1: tell us how to please, to believe a woman. Look,

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Speaker 1: I can't answer that unfortunately, been trying to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: That's funny you mentioned that Toddy, is this is any

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Speaker 1: kind of link to the Mel Gibson movie, Completely completely

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Speaker 1: different and so this is a new w a made

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Speaker 1: film shot in Fremantle last year over about just under

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Speaker 1: a month, which is pretty short time, too quick, turnaround,

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Speaker 1: very quick, turnaround quick. And the headliner is Sally Phillips

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Speaker 1: of Bridget Jones's fame. She was She was Bridget Jones's

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Speaker 1: bestie Shaza for those three Bridget Jones films, and before

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Speaker 1: that was the co creator and star of the British

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Speaker 1: all female sketch comedy shows Mack the Pony, Smack Smack

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Speaker 1: the Pony, which you think back in I remember that show,

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Speaker 1: but it was actually a big deal at the time,

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Speaker 1: like in the late nineties, early two thousands, and in

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Speaker 1: the year two thousand it beat Ali g for the

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Speaker 1: International Emmy. So so she she really has great comedy

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Speaker 1: chops and she brings that and yeah, she brings that

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Speaker 1: to this film. I remember when she arrived in Perth

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Speaker 1: last year, you think the Queen of It. Also was

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Speaker 1: during the pandemic. We were a bit starved of celebrities

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Speaker 1: and excitement. We had one from Grays and one from

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Speaker 1: the exactly exactly and so and her son actually broke

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Speaker 1: his arm when he was over here in Perth. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so she remembers it pretty good, tackled by a politician

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Speaker 1: and so and so like for this film, like it's

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Speaker 1: you know, like Australia doesn't have the greatest track record

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Speaker 1: of doing adult comedies. Like there's the Castle, Yes, that's it.

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Speaker 1: That's the holiest crickets, that's the Australia. And so the

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Speaker 1: dishes in sort of a slow burned sort of gentle comedy,

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Speaker 1: but we don't do them very well. Often they're pretty

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Speaker 1: cringe worthy. They're so Australia. There's so and so this

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Speaker 1: film could have really been Boom or Bust because it's

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Speaker 1: a sort of film that they just don't make at all.

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Speaker 1: Like they don't make risk, risky adult comedies aimed at

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Speaker 1: thirty five to fifty five year old women. That's just

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Speaker 1: not a thing that exists in the movie industry, and

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Speaker 1: that don't really make movies about that demographic as well,

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Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons, like it's you know, we

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Speaker 1: know all about the movie business, and so if you

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Speaker 1: can imagine, this film is a cross between Desperate Housewives

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Speaker 1: and risky business, oh, with a bit of full Monty

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Speaker 1: thrown in, right, So it's about it's about a group

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Speaker 1: of interesting fifty something housewives led by Sally Phillips's character Gina,

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Speaker 1: who I guess look to bring a bit of excitement

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Speaker 1: into the lives of women their age by starting a

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Speaker 1: cleaning company. They sort of team up with this failing

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Speaker 1: removalist company run by the great Eric Thompson and get

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Speaker 1: these removalists who are a bit down on their luck

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, guys, like you know this furniture removal

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Speaker 1: is not working out for you. We want you to

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Speaker 1: moonlight as house cleaners, and you know, maybe if you're

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Speaker 1: asked to clean the chimney. Nudge Nudge went. So it's

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Speaker 1: unlikely as it sounds, they get these furniture removalists to

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Speaker 1: double as jigglows clean the house. And then you know,

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Speaker 1: like if you if you're required to do something a

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Speaker 1: bit extra, well, that's part of the job. And it

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Speaker 1: seems like such a bizarre idea for a movie, but

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Speaker 1: it's actually inspired by a true story. Incredibly, there was

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Speaker 1: there was there was a couple of housewives in Melbourne

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Speaker 1: a few years ago Melbourne who did this very thing,

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Speaker 1: who had a sort of a who ran a sort

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Speaker 1: of a jig aimed at other housewives in that same

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Speaker 1: age bracket. And because it's it's kind of like a

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Speaker 1: forgotten a forgotten demographic in society, right, Like I think

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Speaker 1: the tendency is to look at these to look at women,

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Speaker 1: to look at these women, and to look at these

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Speaker 1: women and say, well, their mums, their mums or grandma's

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Speaker 1: or and that's and that's kind of all they are,

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Speaker 1: and that and that maybe their needs aren't as important,

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Speaker 1: which is not the case for blokes that age. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like, you know, they shake up with young girls

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Speaker 1: all the time. Can you hear someone Ben, you've been

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Speaker 1: very quite a least you can chip in anytime you

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Speaker 1: want to, and so and so it unfolds from there. Right,

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Speaker 1: it is a little risk gay, but it's it's still

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Speaker 1: it's still a very gentle comedy directed by Renee Webster,

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Speaker 1: who's done a few episodes of The Heights and this

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Speaker 1: is her first film. Yeah, so she she brings like

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Speaker 1: an interesting aesthetic. And the reason it works is firstly

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Speaker 1: because of Sally Phillips, like her comic timing is just

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Speaker 1: so good. And secondly because you know, like even the

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Speaker 1: would have been very easy to objectify. You know, these

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Speaker 1: these blokes briefcase the beefcakes, they're far from beefcakes, Like,

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Speaker 1: they're very ordinary kind of dudes. And and the film

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Speaker 1: uses this kind of sex work as a vehicle for

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Speaker 1: like improving their own self confidence, which has taken a

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Speaker 1: bit of a dark because of their their business has

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Speaker 1: kind of gone downhill. So that which is where the

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Speaker 1: full which is where the full Monty vibes come in

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Speaker 1: and obviously risky business. You know Tom Cruise doing something

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Speaker 1: seen Dave after and I think he strips down to

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Speaker 1: his his his jocks there at one point there's Alexander

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Speaker 1: England in it as well. Who else is in it?

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Speaker 1: Cameron Data makes a bit of an appearance, Miles Pollard,

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Speaker 1: Tasma Walton, Caroline Brazier. So it's really the kind of

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Speaker 1: the who's who of Australian actors who are all kind

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Speaker 1: of sitting around sort of early on in the pandemic

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Speaker 1: with not much to do. And so from that perspective,

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Speaker 1: it's really really good. It's not a perfect film, like

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Speaker 1: you know, like there's definitely some limitations, but the good

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Speaker 1: thing about it, the notable thing about it is it's

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Speaker 1: reaching a demographic that just they don't make movies for.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's cool. Really throw us poor old

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Speaker 1: ladies to bone. Are you giving? I'm in that demographic myself.

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Speaker 1: So look, if you're an eighteen year old dude going

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Speaker 1: to watch this film like I reckon, you'd probably rather

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Speaker 1: walking on your mum having a shower. But that if

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Speaker 1: you're if you're in that target demographic, it's a super

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Speaker 1: solid three star film. Okay, all right, there you go

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Speaker 1: and filmed in for you, which is always fun when

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Speaker 1: you're filmed in places that you play spot the I've

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Speaker 1: been there and she should get an award for speed

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Speaker 1: in filming. They had a lot of money filming a month. Good,

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you guys,