Foxy ladies' big screen move unsuccessful

FILM REVIEW

Kath and Kimderella

Review: Brian Oliver

Rating: 3/10

Transporting the foxy ladies from Fountain Lakes to the big screen was always going to be risky.

In their latest offering, Kath and Kimderella, Jane Turner and Gina Riley take viewers to Italy to share the adventures of their very own fairytale.

Fans of the TV series Kath and Kim would recognise many of the jokes which appeared on the small screen as Turner and Riley recap the TV series in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

The trip to Italy comes about after Turner’s character, Kath, wins a competition at her local chemist.

When her husband, Kel (Glenn Robbins), declares his phobia of flying, and the fact he can’t miss an episode of Masterchef, it paves the way for Kim, played by Riley, to join her hot-to-trot mother on the holiday.

For the next hour or so, mother and daughter, followed in toe by a slimmer Sharon Strzelecki (Magda Szubanski), live out their European adventure.

The longer the movie went, the more ridiculous the plot became and the more difficult it was to negotiate cameo appearances and the far-fetched story Turner and Riley were trying to tell.

Some vintage Kath and Kim came as Kath praised a laneway mural, only to be corrected—it was bird poo.

‘‘It still looks noice,’’ she quipped.

Just as funny was the line about the abducted heating.

But sadly, the laughs were few and far between.