KENNY, the runaway hit from down-under follows the footsteps of the Aussie comedy 1997 hit THE CASTLE.  Ironically, both took a year before reaching North American screens.  Both films mock affably a working-class not so bright Australian protagonist and encourage basic human qualities like honesty, unpretentiousness and courage.

Kenny Smyth (Shane Jacobson) is a lovable but unappreciated good natured knight in shining overalls who delivers porta-loos.  He works at ‘Spashdown’, the company with the motto: “We’re number one at number two”.  Yes, the film contains one of the largest number of quotable gags.  The mockmentary styled comedy follows Kenny doing his runs climaxing with a big expo held in Nashville, Tennessee (Poo-HQ).

The film KENNY itself is a family venture with brothers Clayton and Shane directing and starring respectively.  To add in family values, Kenny’s family comes into play with the real father, Ronald and son, Jesse playing the story’s father and son.  Kenny father is in hospital for an operation and Kenny takes his son on a work field trip.

Kenny is good natured through-out.  Kenny’s relationship with his separated wife is treated without much hate.  All he can say is: “Next time cut out the middleman, find someone you hate and buy them a house.” Hardly any of the actual nasty stuff (thankfully) is shown on screen.  Even when Kenny is set on fire while trying to save one of the porta-loos, all he can do is crack a joke.

Though Kenny probably contains a script, written by both the brothers, that contains the most exhaustible list of poo and urine humour, the film lags a bit in the middle.  Actor Shane Jacobson is a lovable lout, but listening to him all the time can be a bit tiresome.  But the writers include a fair amount of not too distracting sub-plots (father-son relationship both ways, a romantic date encounter) to prevent the film from running out of material.  Still, the funniest film I have seen this year.