Critic Reviews

• Jim Schembri, 3AW

  Limp comedy.

• Julie Rigg, MovieTime, ABC Radio National

  This is no ordinary buddy movie. It is, actually, an anti buddy movie, and while there are some sequences which could have been funnier, the story maintains a kind of bizarre logic which somehow speaks New Zealand.

• Jake Wilson, The Age (Australia)

  This is a weak film but an endearing one, a would-be black comedy undermined by the amiability of all concerned.

• Simon Foster, sbs.com.au

  Having earlier scored a breakout hit with his next-to-no-budget Scarfies (1999), a film that explored the lives of similarly low-brow characters but with far greater depth and narrative strength, more can rightfully be expected of the director.

• Craig Mathieson, The Sunday Age

  With a backdrop of natural wonders and a suitably ironic deployment of familiar Kiwi pop hits, Two Little Boys strikes a fair balance between the outlandish and the recognisable.

• Josh Forward, Trespass

  The combination is a little like mixing chocolate, beetroot and anchovies. Maybe they're not meant to be put together. Despite all this, the film works.... Almost.

• Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile

  The major flaw in this decidedly black New Zealand comedy with a tasty sense of the ridiculous is that the central odd-couple relationship at the film's centre is never properly established. Even the deliciously twisted aspects ... tend to fall flat

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