Now Add Honey

We're an odd bunch austrayins but it you liked two hands with heath ledger you'll get it, and the other eclectic shows like house husbands or 800 words you'll so get it. If fat pizza is your thing or housos maybe? Well worth it.

A totally terrible movie. I am not a friend of one of the actors or actresses in this mess of a movie so I will give it a true review. Incoherent story line, poor acting at times, the lead is fairly terrible. They filmed it in a lovely street in Hawthorn, which is the only good part of the movie. Not sure how it got to an average rating of 4.6. Maybe the insiders ramped the score by the false 9's and 10's. A true 1 out of 10 m ( just watch it if u don't believe me)

Why do we totally suck at film-making in this country! (Australia that is!). Name 5 great films to come out of Australia in the past 30yrs? I really wish I could! Animal Kingdom, Mad Max Fury Road, Chopper....um ok struggling now....The Castle and....um....Wolf Creek maybe....definitely could not name 10. OK Priscilla Queen of the Desert, um....Crocodile Dundee....um...struggle street now... This is yet another plain, uninspiring, unoriginal, nothing flick that you don't watch you endure and wonder how the hell it was funded and why? It's not clever nor witty or even remotely interesting. I find it so hypocritical of Robyn Butler to say part of the overall message is how society over sexualises teenagers who don't have a clue about nor are in touch with their own sexuality at such a young age (16) and yet in almost every scene Lucy Fry is in she is either wearing a bikini, short shorts or some revealing outfit! Usually there is no reason for this at all. Her first few scenes for example in the swimming pool or when she is just lazing around the house. It feels like the pilot to some awful TV drama that never got made and not a motion picture. Not sure how it did at the cinema, did it even make it there? Please stop funding this sub-standard dribble especially if tax payers money is being used.

I loved this movie! From start to finish it made me laugh and genuinely surprised me with the depth of the characters and storyline. Great Aussie movie with loads of local stars. Just enjoy it for what it is.

Honey Halloway (Lucy Fry) is a 16 year old child star poised for adulthood. She is famous as "Monkey Girl" and her mom Beth (Portia de Rossi) wants to move on to the next step of fame: sex sells. She is poised to release a sexy video and * photo shoot. Her plans are interrupted when she gets popped at the airport and goes to rehab. Honey, who like Monkey Girl, knows nothing of the real world, moves in with relatives and disrupts the life of everyone she touches. Honey has a bunch of relatives whose lives she can mess up, so it keeps things going. Unfortunately the film sounds a bit better than it was executed. Lucy Durack did an excellent job as Katie, reminding me of an Australian Anne Kendrick. Aimed at a teen girl. Guide: The film had something that sounded like an F-bomb, but maybe it wasn't. There is some brief nudity ( Robyn Butler).

I like Robyn Butler and the writer/producer is the best thing in the movie; it is just a shame that as writer she did not gift herself with a better vehicle for her talent. I found this a bit of a mess, really. There are too many competing characters and story lines and in the end none of them feel satisfactorily resolved or executed. With the clever title, and her previous work with husband Wayne Hope on the small screen series like Upper Middle Class Bogan and The Librarians, Robyn Butler gets to do the best shtick and has some great lines but she has surrounded herself with an unlikely and unlikable group of characters making it hard to root for her and her brood. The actors playing her daughters are fine, and 'Wicked' star Lucy Durack has some lovely moments, but the overplayed and contrived tangled web with her sister played by Portia de Rossi and her insufferable daughter played by Lucy Fry give the movie its artificial and irritating elements that for me the movie never recovers from, and they are introduced within the first 10 minutes! There are some significant themes and ideas fighting for screen time here, but ultimately they are buried underneath the contrived set of slapstick and mostly unfunny situations that befall the leading character. Maybe 15 year old girls and their mothers will enjoy this more than I! As a female empowerment tale, it feels muddled and compromised; as a screwball comedy it simply isn't compelling enough or humorous enough to forgive some of the extraneous characters viewers are forced to endure, and as a familiar motif of outsider crashes in on an ordinary family and inevitably changes the dynamic, it is not sharp enough in its crafting. As much as i admire the work of this pair of writer/performers, i think they bit off more than they could chew with this project. Robyn Butler's talent alone could carry a project without so many shoehorned elements to compete with.