From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Kenny tackles every septic challenge that comes his way, culminating in a visit to the International Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville Tennessee - or as Kenny affectionately calls it, "Poo HQ".
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“I’d love to be able to say ‘I plumb toilets’ and have someone say ‘Now that is something I've always wanted to do’.”
You really have to appreciate Kenny for what it is; a mockumentary about a plumber shot mostly around Melbourne on a tiny budget, and primarily featuring the director’s family. It’s a kind of filmmaking that although might not be as refined or technically impressive as a professional production, has so much passion and heart poured into it that you can’t help but admire all the work they put in to make something they really cared about, and Kenny is exactly that. Extremely rough around the edges, but its consistently funny and entertaining to watch, and the low…
What a load of shit.
And I loved every minute of it. I was as happy as a fat bloke sitting on the dunny with a copy of the latest Pumpers & Cleaners Quarterly magazine.
A great film for copraphiliacs and comedy lovers everywhere.
This may be the best random selection I've ever watched on Amazon Prime and it's also one of the best mockumentaries I've ever seen. The movie can be downright hilarious at times from their colorful dialogue and the simple nature of their job, but as I came to find out, the film has heart too. Shane Jacobson as the title character, Kenny, feels like he found perfection in a character. Kenny is a genuinely likable guy. He does the job no else wants to do and he's quite content to do it with no real worry given to what you think about it. As he says himself, "I'm number one with number two." Kenny is an all-around nice guy and…
I am all in on faux documentary cinema. Especially when it comes to mockumentary films as a delivery system for comedy.
I hadn't seen this since I was a teenager. Adored it then, and now revisiting it, I am floored by how truly authentic and unbreaking the documentary feel is. If the film wasn't such an icon and Jacobsen so known now, I truly believe you could convince someone it was real.
A career in the shitter (literally) and a character who spills crap jokes (literally). Kenny just lives his life and takes what it offers him on the chin. A true example of enjoying the little moments when they come and forgetting the bad, and by the looks of it, he goes through a lot of shit (sorry, that’s the last one). Initially I thought this was going to be a typical dry humour “day in the life of” type narrative. Though it was surprisingly layered which definitely made Kenny more likeable as a character. By surrounding himself with like-minded individual’s it made the story progress smoothly and further deepened these likened feelings. Plus you can’t hate a guy who employs…
We need a joker style Kenny film
I am a sucker for a good mockumentary, and this one, in spite of the subject matter, is actually handled with a lot of decorum and a lot of heart.
It's definitely longer than it needs to be, but there's some cracking one liners in there.
”No man should be set on fire trying to save one of his shitters.”
A quite wonderful mockumentary following Kenny (Shane Jacobson), a Melbourne-based boss of a crew of portable-toilet operatives. He works for Splashdown, a company that services events of all sizes, often huge music festivals and even the Melbourne Cup, the sort of occasions that keep Kenny and his cohorts very busy.
Kenny is a stand-up bloke, despite being much put-upon by his permanently miserable father, his demanding ex-wife and patrons of the events he helps ensure run smoothly. And though the film deals with literal toilet humour, it never does so in an off-putting way. In the wrong hands, Kenny could be gross-out comedy of the worst…
"Everyone will deny the fact that they look at their poo, but everyone does"
It might just be me, but here are three common elements I'm beginning to pick up on within Australia cinema in my research:
1. Fantastic location scouting and/or beautiful vistas
2. Questionable production quality (Poor sound/ADR, wonky editing)
3. A universal sincerity present within the main characters
god i love my country
2nd Letterboxd Festival - Film 6
This mockumentary is brilliant. Just absolutely brilliant.
This thing's about one of those guys we usually don't think about, one of those people whose jobs we take for granted and usually do not remember they exist until they are missing in action.
And thus, the movie takes this unknown regular guys and makes you care about his fictional live, and the literal and figurative shit he has to deal with every day. And he smiles all the time, and is genuinely friendly and a good guy despite all this. And that's why we can be along on this ride, and get interested, and see him grow as the minutes roll us by.
The acting,…
