NOW ADD HONEY

Life falls in further disarray for a dysfunctional family when Honey, a US based pop-star, comes to visit down under.

Honey (Lucy Fry), a dumb blonde and barbie-doll look-a-like doesn’t initially fit into the Morgan’s simplistic lifestyle, but ultimately learns some valuable life lessons.

This is quintessentially an Australian film which highlights the difficulty in writing a funny script. Some scenes extracted the occasional chuckle, but the laugh-out-loud comedy mandatory for films of this genre, was non-existent.

The writers tried hard, perhaps too hard, to extract laughs with an absurd and unfunny script and failed dismally.

Erik Thomson was wasted in a small role as the cheating husband and the rest of the cast, including Portia De Rossi who played Honey’s mother, could do nothing to salvage this minor train wreck.

There was a possibility of redemption on a few occasions when the story meandered in the right direction addressing some emotional issues, but succeeded only in slipping further down the hall of shame. (MMo)

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